wait murderbot's mentioned once or twice that secunits were "originally designed for" stuff like de-escalation, quick and efficient rescues, absolute minimum force and the like. ive always wondered why exactly they were designed with human faces in the first place given they're mainly used to enforce corporate slavery and having visibly expressed emotions is a detriment to that. but it would make sense if they were "meant" to be used in more of a rescue capacity, where showing empathy and being visibly familiar would be advantageous. anyway this leads into: if secunits' emotional capacity and skillset are geared towards rescue and they're used as enforcers of abuse.... well it does explain something about how fucked up they are
We've all talked about SecUnit being a Midsize Herding Dog Breed™, but it's even better: they took the Midsize Herding Dog Breed unit and had it specialize in Search And Rescue as well as Comfortingly Laying Its Head In Your Lap until medical aid arrives
But then capitalism got its hands on it, and the strength that was probably designed to help rescue people from collapsed buildings and crumpled transports was instead turned towards enforcement, and the expressive, comforting face had to be covered up with a scary opaque helmet
They had to add the brain shock collar bc these Midsize Herding Breed Search And Rescue Dogs kept wanting to save and comfort people instead of bite them
