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full body scan

corporate sabotage

experimental surgery

kidnapping

bomb threat

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i’m listening to fugitive telemetry and I think it’s hilarious how murderbot was like irritated that that one bot was potentially named Jollybaby… bro your name is literally murderbot… I know your emo ass isn’t talking

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #fugitive telemetry #low-key I could see it in its mind changing its own name to XxXmurderbotXxX #it’s not like it’s gonna tell anybody

Murderbot kills me in Fugitive Telemetry. Like sure it's the "quiet" downtime book and a pretty good whodunnit yeah. It has a muder to solve, this is enrichment for it and all its friends are there! and everyone being there just kind of gets to me?? Like I get emotional over it. Seeing it act comfortable with its humans like that is fucking precious okay. Calling its bestie and worstie to watch it break into a transport, scaring the shit out of them later when it calls them for help in the most hilarious way. Bharadwaj getting it to open up and just. Talk. Everyone gets a little spot in its narrative. I know we've been over all this but we need to go over it AGAIN

Most of all though, the real killer to me (not balin) is in the beginning. Despite bitching in its narrative about how slow the humans are at parsing information like its all groaaaan humans could you be any slower, mb is still trying to impress them. You can tell its wary of the humans being assholes to it and you can tell it still stings every time it happens.

And then it will still want to help.

It ends up befriending so many of the people it meets and and will assume they hate it. Like Indah. She was an asshole in the very beginning but I don't think it takes her long to realize how she was wrong about it. then when Murderbot is mistaken about the hack after being so sure about it and its kind of having a little internal breakdown over it thinking about how Indah is gonna know its useless junk and you fucking KNOW that its expression was 🥺

Like what was Indah thinking. Probably close to what the PresAux team was thinking when they first asked murderbot to sit with them.

Oh and the scene after the refugees get rescued and Indah is leading murderbot through the halls away from the refugees and mb is all "she doesnt want to upset them if they see me because im a horrible garbage killing machine and she thinks so too" but its like. No my dude. She doesnt want you upset because THEY JUST SHOT YOU and you're obviously not okay. And probably made you stay out of the action later because YOU WERE JUST SHOT. For most people being shot isnt normal.

#i literally cannot pick my favourite scene from this book #the two security people who stand beside murderbot because they like it and want to be around it and mb is like ok #weirdos standing next to me for some reason #and mb getting offered tea and being like i dont eat #like maybe the person didnt know it doesnt it or maybe they forgot and they'll remember for next time but also how fucking awkward was that #i think mb may have been leaning into the comedic timing of pointing out its differences when it let the humans panic over the weapons alarm #and then eventually is like dw it's my body #its something else to have all these endearing moments alongside living with severe trauma and i eat it up #murderbot #long post #Fugitive Telemetry #tmbd

I love Murderbot so much. In Fugitive Telemetry there’s this amazing moment when Dr Mensah calls her marital partners in a bad mood and is basically like “okay pack up all the kids and siblings and cousins we are moving out to the boonies/uninhabited other continent because I’m done with humanity” and even though Murderbot HATES planets and does not want to live on one, it’s like, “fine I’ll come along and protect you it’s okay” like Dr Mensah wasn’t even serious and Murderbot wasn’t even part of the conversation. It loves Dr Mensah SO MUCH. Ride or die. I know everyone is obsessed with ART x Murderbot, but its relationship with Dr Mensah is so beautiful to me.

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Indah's treatment of both SecUnit and the refugee Humans at the end of Fugitive Telemetry was the masterstroke of writing that showed what IS good about Preservation's establishment, actually. That Indah was able to hold compassion and understanding for both extremely traumatized parties, both the prickly consultant she's been butting heads with all book and the ungrateful strangers who shot it in the back, and balance their needs without letting either hurt the other further, shows what Preservation is GOOD at. Reparative justice, harm reduction, compassion and healing and the difficult logistics thereof.

She is dead serious when she offers for Murderbot to press charges against the humans who shot it. She also won't let the refugees be threatened or intimidated by that same legal action by her own officers. She makes sure everyone knows the rights and protections they're due. She says, No, we will not be charging Human One, "because I understand she’s experienced extreme trauma and because the consultant refused to make a complaint," because she understands due process is necessary for justice, and because she understands that what she doesn't understand comes from trauma—on both sides. She says, Are you going to help us find the real killer, "Or is this just how your whole group treats people who get hurt trying to help you?" because yes, she does understand where Murderbot's coming from better now, and because she has to speak up—she cannot simply accept the humans fear this SecUnit, despite its own resignation, not when her job is to restore and repair the society that holds both victims. And when she keeps Murderbot and the refugees from coming face to face with each other, it's not only for the humans' sake, it's for Murderbot's sake too. An unmediated, charged possible confrontation would harm both parties and serve no one. Her words and actions reflect her sincere beliefs in compassion and justice, and those of Preservation's.

And in the end when Murderbot has given up on its "less murdery," minimum force, life-prioritizing, "that was a SecUnit plan" aspirations to non-violent purpose and gone to kill Balin or be killed by it, it's Preservation's bot community that intervenes and de-escalates the situation without further harm or violence. After Human One, it sends a message to the reader: that despite the trauma and injustices the world brings to its doorstep, despite the missteps its people make in the process, Preservation is still ready to respond with strength, compassion, justice, mercy, and its belief in the sanctity of all life. It shows us, not better people, but people borne of a better society, and asks us what we could be if we could make our future better, too.

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I think Fugitive Telemetry is pretty funny from Indah's perspective. There's a murder on the station. You alert your government leader, and they bring their bodyguard/corporate-spy-and-murder-construct with them to the scene of the crime. Turns out it's also Sherlock Holmes. It alternates talking like it's in a TV show, and making various ominous statements, including things like "if I killed them, you'd never find the bodies." It refuses to elaborate on that one. Well that's comforting. It does go on to show that it couldn't have done the murder. But did it just confess to murder? Why did it just confess to murder? It goes on to save your officers lives (wait, did it just hack the system it promised not to hack? Eh, we'll let it slide this time.) and then mount a solo rescue mission (extremely successful, except for being shot by the people it's saving), and still hasn't killed anyone. So far. It already forgot that someone got murdered and that you were actually trying to solve a crime. Anyway, once you give it full access to your security system, it solves the crime within an hour or so. Turns out it was your coworker of 43 years. Who was actually a corporate-spy-and-murder-robot this whole time.

#yeah I know some pretty major plot points missing #I was going almost completely from memory #fugitive telemetry #murderbot diaries #murderbot spoilers

LOVE their sibling-like vibe

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Love when the scientific language from all the scientists Murderbot hangs out with rubs off on it. I feel like we assume as a part machine part human construct secunits would find science second nature, but as Murderbot says, they don’t get good modules for that.

“The important part - the thesis? -“ and

“I ran my field camera back a little and saw I had gotten stabbed with a tooth, or maybe a cilia. Did I mean a cilia or was that something else?”

Really show that it absorbs not just words/information but different types of thinking from its scientific clients

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