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securityconsultant) wrote2021-02-21 03:34 pm
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murderbot
the murderbot diaries
| alias: SecUnit, Eden, Rin | age: N/A |
| species: Construct | gender: None [it/its] |
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sexuality: |
When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
| EXTROVERSION |
| INTROVERSION |
| SENSING |
| INTUITION |
| THINKING |
| FEELING |
| JUDGMENT |
| PERCEPTION |
| ASSERTIVE |
| TURBULENT |
Logistician
ISTJ-T
A Logistician (ISTJ) is someone with the Introverted, Observant, Thinking, and Judging personality traits. These people tend to be reserved yet willful, with a rational outlook on life. They compose their actions carefully and carry them out with methodical purpose.
Stability is important to all Logisticians, but Turbulent Logisticians also need to find consistency in their lives. It provides them a greater sense of security and safety. They crave feeling settled in, but they can struggle to reach this state because of their perfectionistic tendencies. Things may rarely seem good enough to them, and they may have difficulty experiencing satisfaction.
Stability is important to all Logisticians, but Turbulent Logisticians also need to find consistency in their lives. It provides them a greater sense of security and safety. They crave feeling settled in, but they can struggle to reach this state because of their perfectionistic tendencies. Things may rarely seem good enough to them, and they may have difficulty experiencing satisfaction.
Six Traits:
Antisocial. Conflicted. Loyal. Observant. Paranoid. Sarcastic.
Motivations: Protecting its 'clients'. Not becoming a 'pet'. Being granted enough independence to define itself.
Handling Conflict: Physically if possible. Avoidance otherwise, especially in social situations.
Motivations: Protecting its 'clients'. Not becoming a 'pet'. Being granted enough independence to define itself.
Handling Conflict: Physically if possible. Avoidance otherwise, especially in social situations.
| height: 180cm | hair: Black |
| build: Athletic | eyes: Brown |
| features: Difficult-to-place-ethnicity, but vaguely middle-eastern. | |
Description:
A tall humanoid, with short black hair and dark skin. Various seems in their skin at joints imply some sort of augmentations of their body, if one is familiar with that tech; in addition, there's a data port on the back of their neck that implies some sort of hard connection is possible. Other than that, there's only so much to give away their inhumanity; that is actual flesh, actual blood, all atop a robotic inner skeleton that protects the circuitry and further hybridization within.
First Impressions: A withdrawn human with somewhat androgynous features. Tends to avoid direct eye contact, but also tends to watch others closely. Visibly uncomfortable in social situations.
First Impressions: A withdrawn human with somewhat androgynous features. Tends to avoid direct eye contact, but also tends to watch others closely. Visibly uncomfortable in social situations.
" I
still
didn't know what I wanted. "
What Murderbot did prior to its contract to RaviHyral Mining Facility Q Station isn't specified. Presumably it had a few other contracts beforehand, regulated by the Company and its governor module. However, during the duty on the station, something happened. Something very, very big that was promptly very, very hushed up and hidden.
For a long time, Murderbot wasn't certain of the details due to a memory purge; however, such purges were always incomplete due to the organic parts of the system. It had just enough memory of the incident to wonder if its own governor module had suffered catastrophic failure, if it had hacked its own to slaughter a number of its own clients, or whathaveyou. We'll get in to what actually happened later, but suffice it to say, Murderbot - even during its recovery, where its memory was purged and so on and so forth - committed the unthinkable to prevent this from ever happening again. At least, by its own hands.
It disabled the governor module that gave it commands, allowing it for the first time in its life to choose whether or not to obey, and very, very quietly, went rogue.
'Quietly' is important to note. While most media portrayed rogue SecUnits as murderers who turned on their former masters, Murderbot - as it had just-as-quietly began to refer to itself - felt more lost than anything. But with newfound access to the humans' entertainment feed, it promptly turned to such for at least some form of guidance, and its first find was the show Sanctuary Moon. As would later be described, it kept Murderbot company without forcing it to interact; it knew very well that it was watching fictional stories of fictional people, but it was a lifeline as it pretended to still be part of the company, and as nearly four years of this passed, it would continue to be a source of comfort. Other shows would be downloaded, watched, passed over, deleted, favorited, but Sanctuary Moon would remain in its archives to be rewatched to help pass long hours in the cargo bay, or other periods which didn't require its full attention.
Time passed. Over 35,000 hours of Murderbot continuing to be an obedient and efficient SecUnit, of fulfilling contracts for the Company and dealing with humans who really, really needed its help. Thankfully, the greater majority of those contracts only required so much direct (much less social) interaction between it and the clients, so it was...as happy as one could be in its position.
And then came the PreservationAux contract. In short, not only did the team discover that Murderbot was no longer ruled by its governor module, but their lives were in danger and it was that very fact that allowed Murderbot to keep them from falling prey to fatal sabotage. In the end, Dr. Mensah - a human Murderbot had actually grown to like, despite itself, possibly because Mensah treated it as a person even before the revelation - sought to purchase Murderbot from the Company. But Murderbot was familiar that even 'free bots' required human guardians, and while it appreciated her presence, it wasn't ready to leap so far, so fast.
And so it ran away. First, finding passage to RaviHyral, needing to understand the truth of what happened. In doing so, it came across one Asshole Research Transport (ART) with whom it developed a...sort of friendship here. We use the term 'sort of' because it was very much full of friction, mainly because ART was A) far more powerful in processing than Murderbot to a terrifying degree, and had no qualms about displaying this for the .00001 of a second Murderbot needed to understand trying to hack the bot would be an incredibly bad idea, 2) really fucking good at understanding Murderbot's mind and cutting through Murderbot's own ways of thinking to land at the heart of the issue. Still, ART did help it change its appearance, some, and get it to where it needed to go - even assisting a bit in helping Murderbot pick up a cover persona, story, etc etc, what it needed to get things done (and also assist some young, stupid humans along the way).
There, Murderbot found the truth; it didn't cause the incident. Malware did, hijacking itself as a code update to another class of constructs (ComfortUnits) and infecting the SecuritySys as well as the SecUnits, and anything else that had a mind. The resulting feelings were...complicated, especially for someone who was still trying to understand themselves, much more where they were to go from there. But the ComfortUnits had sacrificed themselves to try and save the humans from the then-effectively-insane machinery, and for that, Murderbot was...grateful. Grateful enough to spare another one that had worked against its humans, hack her governor module, and tell her to go away. (Too much stress in trying to save its humans + realizing it was a shit 'security consultant' + the revelations of the Incident = one unhappy Murderbot).
Soon after, Murderbot saw Dr. Mensah on the newsfeed talking about another planet related to the company they believed responsible for the prior sabotage, and there, at least, it knew where to go next. That particular clusterfuck resulted in it befriending a 'free bot' who was treated as an equal by its human, that bot choosing to sacrifice itself to save Murderbot, its 'friend', and just- Murderbot may have found incriminating evidence against GreyCris, but fuck, it just wanted a brea-
oh. Dr. Mensah was taken prisoner by GreyCris. okay. cool. great.
Needless to say, Murderbot was quick to turn the hell around and go to rescue her, dealing with some of its lingering (problematic!!!) emotions in the process, and...deciding to stay. At least for then. Considering it had a catastrophic processor failure after a barely-there win against some killware (yay organic bits once again saving the day? they come in useful once in a while, but at the same time, "The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.") Nonetheless, as Murderbot recovered, it found that there was a group out there that wanted to hire it for a job - rather, one of its aliases for a job (the one it had used just before rescuing Mensah), citizenship immaterial, thank you for saving their assessment team (well, most of the team) from contract killers by the way - and that another of the PreservationAux team was suggesting it publish its story as part of a documentary. But Mensah stressed it didn't have to choose right away, but more importantly, one thing was clear to Murderbot;
It had a place to be while it figured things out.
For a long time, Murderbot wasn't certain of the details due to a memory purge; however, such purges were always incomplete due to the organic parts of the system. It had just enough memory of the incident to wonder if its own governor module had suffered catastrophic failure, if it had hacked its own to slaughter a number of its own clients, or whathaveyou. We'll get in to what actually happened later, but suffice it to say, Murderbot - even during its recovery, where its memory was purged and so on and so forth - committed the unthinkable to prevent this from ever happening again. At least, by its own hands.
It disabled the governor module that gave it commands, allowing it for the first time in its life to choose whether or not to obey, and very, very quietly, went rogue.
'Quietly' is important to note. While most media portrayed rogue SecUnits as murderers who turned on their former masters, Murderbot - as it had just-as-quietly began to refer to itself - felt more lost than anything. But with newfound access to the humans' entertainment feed, it promptly turned to such for at least some form of guidance, and its first find was the show Sanctuary Moon. As would later be described, it kept Murderbot company without forcing it to interact; it knew very well that it was watching fictional stories of fictional people, but it was a lifeline as it pretended to still be part of the company, and as nearly four years of this passed, it would continue to be a source of comfort. Other shows would be downloaded, watched, passed over, deleted, favorited, but Sanctuary Moon would remain in its archives to be rewatched to help pass long hours in the cargo bay, or other periods which didn't require its full attention.
Time passed. Over 35,000 hours of Murderbot continuing to be an obedient and efficient SecUnit, of fulfilling contracts for the Company and dealing with humans who really, really needed its help. Thankfully, the greater majority of those contracts only required so much direct (much less social) interaction between it and the clients, so it was...as happy as one could be in its position.
And then came the PreservationAux contract. In short, not only did the team discover that Murderbot was no longer ruled by its governor module, but their lives were in danger and it was that very fact that allowed Murderbot to keep them from falling prey to fatal sabotage. In the end, Dr. Mensah - a human Murderbot had actually grown to like, despite itself, possibly because Mensah treated it as a person even before the revelation - sought to purchase Murderbot from the Company. But Murderbot was familiar that even 'free bots' required human guardians, and while it appreciated her presence, it wasn't ready to leap so far, so fast.
And so it ran away. First, finding passage to RaviHyral, needing to understand the truth of what happened. In doing so, it came across one Asshole Research Transport (ART) with whom it developed a...sort of friendship here. We use the term 'sort of' because it was very much full of friction, mainly because ART was A) far more powerful in processing than Murderbot to a terrifying degree, and had no qualms about displaying this for the .00001 of a second Murderbot needed to understand trying to hack the bot would be an incredibly bad idea, 2) really fucking good at understanding Murderbot's mind and cutting through Murderbot's own ways of thinking to land at the heart of the issue. Still, ART did help it change its appearance, some, and get it to where it needed to go - even assisting a bit in helping Murderbot pick up a cover persona, story, etc etc, what it needed to get things done (and also assist some young, stupid humans along the way).
There, Murderbot found the truth; it didn't cause the incident. Malware did, hijacking itself as a code update to another class of constructs (ComfortUnits) and infecting the SecuritySys as well as the SecUnits, and anything else that had a mind. The resulting feelings were...complicated, especially for someone who was still trying to understand themselves, much more where they were to go from there. But the ComfortUnits had sacrificed themselves to try and save the humans from the then-effectively-insane machinery, and for that, Murderbot was...grateful. Grateful enough to spare another one that had worked against its humans, hack her governor module, and tell her to go away. (Too much stress in trying to save its humans + realizing it was a shit 'security consultant' + the revelations of the Incident = one unhappy Murderbot).
Soon after, Murderbot saw Dr. Mensah on the newsfeed talking about another planet related to the company they believed responsible for the prior sabotage, and there, at least, it knew where to go next. That particular clusterfuck resulted in it befriending a 'free bot' who was treated as an equal by its human, that bot choosing to sacrifice itself to save Murderbot, its 'friend', and just- Murderbot may have found incriminating evidence against GreyCris, but fuck, it just wanted a brea-
oh. Dr. Mensah was taken prisoner by GreyCris. okay. cool. great.
Needless to say, Murderbot was quick to turn the hell around and go to rescue her, dealing with some of its lingering (problematic!!!) emotions in the process, and...deciding to stay. At least for then. Considering it had a catastrophic processor failure after a barely-there win against some killware (yay organic bits once again saving the day? they come in useful once in a while, but at the same time, "The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.") Nonetheless, as Murderbot recovered, it found that there was a group out there that wanted to hire it for a job - rather, one of its aliases for a job (the one it had used just before rescuing Mensah), citizenship immaterial, thank you for saving their assessment team (well, most of the team) from contract killers by the way - and that another of the PreservationAux team was suggesting it publish its story as part of a documentary. But Mensah stressed it didn't have to choose right away, but more importantly, one thing was clear to Murderbot;
It had a place to be while it figured things out.
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Dr. Mensah
Favorite Human. Planetary leader of the Preservation Alliance, and an extremely capable human who exhibits qualities Murderbot thought only existed in fictional media. Dr. Mensah was the first person to really treat Murderbot itself as a person, even prior to learning that it was able to exert its (or even possessed!) free will. Murderbot's 'guardian', but only in an extremely loose sense of the word; to Mensah, Murderbot is an equal, which is still something it's trying to understand.
Perihelion
Asshole Research Transport. Could crush Murderbot like a bug in many ways. Instead assisted(?!?) Murderbot in disguising themselves and discovering the truth re; RaviHyral. Is this what friendship is like?? Because Murderbot has no idea, but would probably watch WorldHoppers with ART again.
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