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Obscure Murderdrones Facts #10

Source: Murderdrones Ep 5 “Home”

Timestamp: 0:29

At the very beginning of episode 5, “Home,” we are given a look at the the Zombie Drones tape, which details the procedure of decommission for Workerdrones.

The Hardware Cleanup graphic displays the machine responsible for disassembling cores. While important to the lore of the absolute solver, there’s something else overlooked.

The mechanism’s ‘arm’ looks strikingly familiar.

Source: Ep 3 “The Promening”

Timestamp: 9:18

In The Promening, we can see for the first time what Dissasembly Drone arms actually look like in their entirety. V’s prom dress exposes her arms, and using her as reference, a resemblance to the core-dismantling machine becomes evidence.

From the broadened forearm, to the tapering of the upper arm towards the elbow, all the way to the balljoint in the shoulder.

It’s an exact match.

This entails that when upgrading the fleshy prototypes to their final versions, Cyn deliberately chose to incorporate the device responsible for destroying the most important component of Workerdrones. Right before sicking them on all of humanity.

Perhaps it’s poetic justice, perhaps it’s some other intention. But if wearing Tessa’s corpse proved anything, it was that Cyn loves irony.

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Obscure Murderdrones Fact #20

Source: Ep 2 “Heartbeat”

Timestamp: 1:49

In the background Uzi’s plans are laid out to fix the spaceship, or as she calls it, “dumb murder ship.”

Uzi’s plans are both aesthetic and ambitiously destructive. Purple paintjob, decal flames, and cool stickers are penned out right beside ‘railgun legs,’ which Uzi apparently wanted to add more of than already necessary.

Tinted windows, and an absolutely useless spoiler (aka those wing things that you put on cars, not undesired narrative information) were also on the to-do list.

Personally, I wish we got to see this thing in action. The Railgun Squid Of Death would have kicked ass had it made an appearance in the season finale, and I’d have liked to see J confront the weapon that destroyed her in this upgraded form.

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Obscure Murderdrones Fact #19

Source: Ep3 “The Promening”

Timestamp: 1:47

Let’s take a crack at Uzi’s crazy ramble ceiling, shall we?

Trust no one.

“THAT’S why I don’t have any friends… no other reason.”

Potentially written down to try and cope with pushing away N at the conclusion of the last episode, “Heartbeat.”

“Absolute Solver” could mean:

Uzi wrote down some speculations on the meaning behind “Absolute Solver”

Her speculations include:

1) ‘It solves math shit (like a nerd)’

2) ‘It’s an anagram for “Big Worm Thing”’

3) ‘It absolutely sucks lol GGs’

Strange Drones Found

This newspaper attached contains the promising headline of ‘strange drones found.’ However , the visible face contains an article about an outbreak of Spanish Influenza, and no further information on the drones.

Mysterious drawing of Cyntessa.

Potentially implying Uzi was having ‘visions’ of Cyn much like Nori had of the oncoming Disassembly Drones.

Thanks for reading!

Feel free to leave a comment if you find anything else of note in the main pic, or at the timestamp given. I skipped over some of the more well-known ones (N’s drawing, and the “J is stupid” note) in favor of some of the less obvious ones.

Long Live The Lore.

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The only confirmed kiss in Murderdrones is Darren x N’s Arm

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Obscure Murderdrones Facts #11

Source: Ep 5 “Home”

Time: 12:50

Visual storytelling indicates Cyn experimented on the Elliot Manor’s crow population before she moved to humans.

In the image above, a clawed appendage protrudes from an assimilating library drone.

Three forward toes, singular backwards toe, and long, curved claws: this is a crow’s foot. The appendage is a recreation of a crow’s foot.

To account for art style discrepancies, I double-checked with Uzi’s talons in her crow form.

Time: 12:01

It’s a match.

Time: 13:51

Furthermore, there is a bird cage in the basement where Cyn conducted her experiments. It looks like Cyn put it to its intended use.

Crows make a lot of sense as test-subjects. There are many of them in the surrounding swamp, and their bodies would provide the studies in wing structure required for Cyn to eventually build the Dissasembly Drones.

Source: Ep 8 “Absolute End”

Time: 11:54

We see the talons in use in Absolute End, where Cyn uses them as a combat alternative to her human hands.

Time: 15:09

Time: 15:26

After all this time, Cyn kept the crow limbs in her arsenal.

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Obscure Murderdrones Fact #7

Source: Murderdrones Episode 1

Timestamp: 4:45

Subject: Khan’s Room Is Very Disturbing

It’s no secret that Khan is a concerning individual. The sentiment holds when we take a look at his personal environment.

Immediately noticeable is his habit of tracking ideas with sticky notes, much like his daughter. But distinguished is the disturbing contents of these records.

“Doors > Uzi” affirms a bold, uncomfortable, but unsurprising reality to his apparent favoring of his technological achievement over his own child (which only begs more questions considering the doors are apparently sentient.) But what truly makes this disconcerting is its evidence that Khan is very, very aware of his stance, and believes it enough to proclaim it openly on his wall. Why does he feel the need to do this?

Moving up, arguably more distressingly, a note reads “New Idea: Monthly Subscription Based Doors?”

Khan’s Doors are the only thing keeping out sky demons. Why would Khan feel the need to charge for this? How would this even work? Who is paying? Paying for individual protection seems farfetched, given the doors are an all-or-nothing protective measure.

Is he considering charging the other outposts for access to his technology? That makes marginally more sense, assuming that the outposts aren’t directly linked (big assumption here,) and that one failed door wouldn’t a breach all Outposts.

Perhaps the concept is charging subscription for regular doors, and thus limiting the non-subscribed access to their own quarters or other Outpost 3 locations. That may be the best-case scenario.

Finally, it’s obligatory to mention the photograph. Interestingly, Nori’s segment of the family photo appears charred away by a Dissasembly Drone’s Nanite Acid. It’s fitting, given the acid is what spurred her “death” to begin with, but how did the photo itself become damaged?

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Obscure Murderdrones Facts #12

Source: Ep 5 “Home”

Time: 8:02

“You will not have to discard your pets, and I will not discard you.”

In the scene just before Cyn reveals her Gala Massacre plot, we see her in Tessa’s room brutalizing some plastic dolls in what seems like anticipation for what she is about to do.

Time: 7:28

After ripping the limbs off of the doll pictured above, she grabs an oil roach-

Time: 7:31 - 7:33

Time: 7:40

And the next shot we see her in is her ultimatum with Tessa, where she encourages Tessa to avoid interference with the Gala.

As Tessa and J are left looking to each other in horror, the scene ends with one final shot of this crossing through the foreground.

A hybridization between the dismembered plastic doll and the robotic roach.

Was this foreshadowing Tessa’s ultimate fate?

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Obscure Murderdrones Facts #9

Source: Murderdrones Episode 1

Timestamp: 14:07

Subject: Visor Data

Upon being slapped by J, N undergoes a hard reboot accompanied by the display of quirky lines of code.

The full message is:

—SLAP ACCEPTED—

PARSING DATA: SYS: //“_/OPTIC_SENSORY_DATA”

COOLING IT WITH THE //CHAR TRAIT : LOVABLE IDIOT// TROPE

REESTABLISHING CONNECTION [29.180621, -90.746746]