#secunit three

[foxprints]

Murderbot: looks like it can kill you, can actually kill you, would prefer to just be left alone to watch its shows.

Three: looks like a cinnamon roll, can actually kill you, and will actually kill you without blinking if it thinks you're a threat.

#fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderbot #three #secunit three #secunit #three is wearing a varsity jacket in Holism's colors shhhhhh

[ghostcashewart]

another murderbot comic- this time, one of my favorite bits with Three! it's truly out here doing its best.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #tmbd #murderbot art #murderbot fanart #the murderbot diaries art #the murderbot diaries fanart #tmbd art #tmbd fanart #murderbot three #secunit #secunit three #asshole research transport #system collapse #martha wells #murderbot diaries fanart #murderbot diaries art #art #fanart #comics #image description in alt #murderbot overse #murderbot turi

[radiantmists]

so murderbot assumes that three offered its armor because it doesn't understand that the armor can belong to it and thinks mb taking the armor is just good resource allocation.

but if it assumes it doesnt have control over the armor, it would probably let whoever it sees as in charge (maybe ART?) handle it, or at least make the suggestion directly to that person. even newly freed in NE, it's willing to give its security advice (on hostage situations being undesirable) even if it doesn't expect to be taken seriously. it doesn't make sense to me that it would have so much trouble expressing the offer if it were just a security suggestion.

and then i think about how murderbot says later in the book that even if three felt fondly toward its fellow SecUnits, the govmod would prevent it from expressing that care or knowing it was returned.

so-- imagine you're three, and you havent yet internalized that you can just say "i care about you and dont want you to get hurt" to another SecUnit; but you can make sure that it has every resource it might need; you could probably do that even before the govmod was hacked.

you can't explain why, but you can hope that the gesture is explanation enough, and you can look for similar caretaking gestures in return; things like being given code and advice to do your job better, and being reassured when you express that you're finding said job difficult.

i think *murderbot* isn't aware of this language of care, because it hasnt had much opportunity to bond with other constructs. but three probably is, and probably knows how to read between the lines and guess that murderbot is starting to care about it, too.

#system collapse #system collapse spoilers #murderbot spoilers #the murderbot diaries #secunit three #maybe this is obvious #but i just got really caught on that bit abt 3 not being able to know if its feelings were returned #bc on the one hand its a really heartbreaking example of how fucked up the governor module is #but it also feels like a bit too much of an absolute #if mb could write a hack of the govmod surely three + its fellows could do a few unnecessary but kind things for each other #its just that they could never *confirm* #still hellish but not the total isolation mb seems to imagine #murderbot diaries

[void-star]

It came to me in a Vision

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #tmbd memes #murderbot #secunit three

[cosmic-pindrops]

tfw you just escaped corporate slavery & all your friends are dead so youre trying to cope by watching hour long video essays media like 2.0 said would help but the giant terrifying HubSys/Overseer/Ship AI keeps hinting that it wants to do experimental surgery on you

#poor three #murderbot #tmbd #the murderbot diaries #secunit three #secunit 3 #asshole research transport #my art

[sunnytheopossum]

System Collapse is OUT! I am halfway through! I still love Three more than anyone else, and if anything happens to it in the second half of the book I will CRY!

I decided to challenge myself a bit with this and draw it in its armor and with its open gun ports, which was actually not as difficult as I thought it would be going into it, because I ended up giving some of the inner mechanisms a bone-like structure (which I am super familiar with) so I had a lot of fun with it weirdly enough!

I am a bit disappointed with the way the effects turned out though. I’m not an effects artist and I have no idea what I’m doing in that regard, so it comes off a bit flat compared to the rest of the piece, but hey, at least I’m practicing.

#murderbot diaries #murderbot #system collapse #Three #digital art #my art #my post #murderbot diaries fanart #tw guns #murderbot fanart #secunit three

[crabs-brencil]

beating the art block allegations by beating it with a brick

anyways i finally solidified my design for secunit three (also updated mb's energy weapons)

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #tmbd fanart #tmbd sketch #tmbd art #secunit #secunit three #tmbd three #murderbot #secunit one #krita

[alex-van-gore]

ART sent me

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot fanart #secunit #tmbd #SecUnit Three #I feel like I’ve posted this but I can’t find it? so I’m posting it again. hi I’m not dead just tired #gore #blood

[ineedlelittlespace]

Saw an alignment chart, had to do some Murderbot artificial intelligences.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #miki #secunit three #tellus #murderbot 2.0

[measlyscrapofseafood]

murderbot and three for @3-inch-sam

og image below the cut

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #tmbd #secunit #secunit 3 #secunit three #my art #put them in helmets b/c i wanna tweak my face hcs for them #and couldn’t be bothered to do it for this #also changed the image 💔💔 b/c i drew the other one as rinzler already #it would’ve been funnier as mb but yk

[elexuscal]

An Educational Experience

A ficlet prompt by Gamebird [for some reason tumblr will not let me @ you directly, sorry]: Three is very intimidated by ART, but it somehow gets to the point where it can ask it about educational modules. How did that conversation play out?

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"Perihelion?"

Yes?

I had prepared what I was going say. Preparation was wise in unfamiliar situations. Yet despite my preparation, I did not speak. Somehow could not. Wished that my buffer could offer an appropriate response.

0.5 seconds passed. 1 seconds. 2 seconds. 3 seconds.

If my governor module were still active, it would have demanded a response.

The Perihelion is not a governor module. It is nearly as unforgiving as one. (Nearly.) I brace for the demand to continue speaking, but it does not come.

After 9.8 seconds, I say, "I am not prepared to operate as a free agent."

No, it agrees.

Muscles in my back move reflexively. I unclench them. Perhaps communicating via the feed will be easier. My modules lack protocols for existing outside the context of Barish-Estranza. It would be helpful if there were alternative protocols I could utilize instead.

I can provide you with my own crew's standard operating procedures.

That would be helpful, thank you. I had found that statements of gratitude were still advisable, even without governor module compulsion to be respectful to (most) clients. It seemed even more prudent considering what I was going to ask next. If there were any other documents similar to HelpMe.file, that would also be useful.

I am afraid that we are rather lacking in other personnel memoirs from rogue SecUnits.

Sarcasm is a common communication device, which I have seen hundreds if not thousands of humans use. In Perihelion's case, it seems to compose of approximately 70% of its communication strategy.

I am aware of that. (I attempt to keep any frustration or other negative emotions I may be feeling out of the feed; I almost certainly fail.) I seek other informational texts and documents to supplement my educational modules.

Perihelion's feed shifts with a new emotion; excitement, perhaps, or interest. Something like this?

Suddenly I am staring at The Perihelion's full media library. No, not full, I realise after a moment of reflection; this is a curated selection. Documentary films and serials, audio-explainers, academic texts, and other books, all labelled #Educational.

They hold potential answers to all my questions.

If I could find them. With over 17,000 items, I do not know where to begin. I do not know how to even begin constructing a query.

"Thank you, Perihelion," I say. "On further consideration, I will begin by reading your crew's operational procedures."

Wait, Perihelion says, and then 0.07 seconds later, please. Apparently it is capable of using courtesy terms, if it wants to. That was too much selection. Try this. The media library refreshes. Now there are only three options; all mid-length educational serials. Do any of these interest you?

The three titles listed, including their summaries, are:

Building Ourselves Up From dams to space-stations, farms to terraforming facilities, how do engineers build the machines that keep society ticking?

Seeking The Final Horizon For millennia before we ever left our birth planet, humanity marvelled up at space. Take a tour of the cosmos, exploring moons, stars, black holes, nebulae, and more.

Suds! The Dirt On Soap Water, fat, and ash. That sounds gross, but we rub it over our bodies every day. Learn about the many ways soap is made and used across the universe.

I consider. They are all so different. How could I choose?

But I must. There are only three of them. It is a reasonable request.

The first documentary, on infrastructure, is clearly the one most related to our current situation. We-- by which I meant, the crews of The Perihelion and the Preservation ship Safe Harbour-- are assisting the humans in rebuilding their infrastructure. But judging from the demo footage next to the documentary's description, this serial was composed to many shots of coordinators, tunnels, and walls.

I had seen a great deal of corridors, tunnels, and walls since initial deployment.

In comparison, the soap documentary intrigued me a great deal. I like soap. Or I like The Perihelion's soap. It did not sting on the skin, but felt gentle and soothing. It came in a variety of shapes and colors and textures. Every time I showered, there was a new option to try. But this was such an unimportant thing to learn about.

Finally, there was the space documentary. I had some basic knowledge regarding space science, but nothing more. I could see how this knowledge could be relevant. And The Perihelion was a deep-space research vessel. It would most likely be pleased if I selected that option. In fact, perhaps, as I thought of it, the choice may have been a test to see if I would make the correct selection.

"Seeking the Final Horizon, please."

Did you only pick that one because that was the one you thought I'd like?

I do not answer. I had not wanted to lie outright. I realise belatedly that my silence may as well be as good as a confession.

You can select something else if you prefer.

I do not know if I would like to. I already decided. Surely that is sufficient?

Never mind, the transport says, indulgently. You can watch the others afterwards, if you are still interested.

The documentary begins playing. I sit down on the soft bunk. Because there is nothing gained from standing up now, and because I can. I watch the first two episodes. They total to 85 minutes.

I had known before that space was vast. I had known that large objects exerted a gravitational pull. I had know that same gravitation pull created worm holes. I knew that wormholes were necessary for faster-than-light travel between systems. I had known all of that, yet this documentary weaves it all together, so that it is no longer disparate facts, but a single cohesive explanation.

I had not known that space could be so beautiful.

#murderbot diaries #system collapse #murderbot spoilers #fanfic #secunit three #once again an attempt at a 'short' ficlet nearly reaches 1k

[foxprints]

🔋 Duel Charging 🔋

#the murderbot diaries #Murderbot #secunit #three #secunit three #tmbd #tmd #fanart #murderbot diaries #mb&three

[ghostcashewart]

"I've never retrieved another Sec-Unit before. There is no protocol for this." - Network Effect by Martha Wells

i decided to draw a more action-y murderbot scene!

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #murderbot art #murderbot fanart #the murderbot diaries art #the murderbot diaries fanart #murderbot diaries #tmbd art #tmbd fanart #network effect #three #murderbot three #tmbd three #art #fanart #secunit #secunit 3 #secunit three #targetcontact #image description in alt #asshole research transport #murderbot diaries art #murderbot diaries fanart #martha wells

[syn0vial]

murderbot meeting one of ART's asshole research transport brethren and immediately hooking three up with it. that secunit knows what it's doing.

#every secunit needs a nigh-omniscient super computer bestie and vice-versa #system collapse spoilers #system collapse #secunit three #holism #i finished the book and am kind of devastated that now i have to wait for the next one 😭 #another wonderful entry in the TMD series!

[void-star]

I'm thinking about that augmented human HubSystem, and Three's unnamed feelings towards the other SecUnits it was with, and its unique form of non-verbal communication a lot after the end of System Collapse.

Like, how this impacts its relationship to others, and to itself. My thoughts are this:

Three doesn't receive direction from a machine, it receives direction and command from a human. Obviously this is still a form of control and enslavement. These augmented humans essentially function as slave overseers.

The augmented human HubSystem is (according to MurderBot) easier to fool. They are human, after all, even with all the augmentations and what seem to be really questionable living conditions themselves.

We also see that they can be distracted, that their control of the SecUnits can be disrupted specifically because they are a physical human being existing in a physical space as a person with a body and a nervous system and all that.

Three's non-verbal communication is intentional and distinct, and the way Three defaults to interacting with MurderBot in System Collapse. It takes ART, MurderBot, and others to be able to figure out how to understand it.

Meaning that, to me, Three (and potentially other B-E SecUnits), are more accustomed to being able to have a system of relationships... between each other, and with their augmented human HubSystem.

I think Three had feelings for SecUnits 1 and 2 that were reciprocated (it's funny that MurderBot didn't bother to ask Three about it), and they were able to have some kind of relationship to each other through the development of their own specific and unique way to communicate with each other that wouldn't be caught by their augmented human HubSystem.

Maybe Three does have a problem with people pleasing and fawning. I'm actually inclined to believe that part of MurderBot's suspicion of Three's self-autonomy is founded, that it isn't so clear if Three understands it can say no, or that it doesn't have the skills to be able to (big mood).

But I also think MurderBot's opinions about Three are the unique combination of ways that MurderBot assumes its experience is universal, and its own feelings about Three it is not admitting to itself... as it is wont to do.

I do wish that System Collapse involved more of the two of them directly interacting, that they could have started to grow together as a unit. But I also think, given MurderBot's general everything, it would have to be a real slow build up into that.

From the bottom of my heart, though, I think Three was already fond of MurderBot since back in Network Effect, and I think MurderBot deciding they need to figure out what Three "actually wants" after it said it would like to go with Holism to learn about Infrastructure Proposals is because it's fond of Three, too.

But so far, Three has been trying to bond, and MurderBot has been rejecting it.

#the murderbot diaries #secunit three #secunit 3 #murderbot #secunits #i really hope they come together because that would mean everything to me #tmbd #mb3 #system collapse #system collapse spoilers #tmbd meta

[cosmic-pindrops]

Just in time for 3/3 here's my design for Three! ✨

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #secunit three #secunit 3 #tmbd #MB and ART are celestial body coded so Three gets to be too lol #my art #TheThreeCollection