I saw someone mention, what does Murderbot do with all of its hard currency cards it gets once it finally starts getting paid? Here’s my take:
It likes its drones, a lot. And when they get broken, which happens frequently, it gets nervous about not having enough left. When Dr Mensah wants to bribe Murderbot in Fugitive Telemetry, she buys it drones. She told the station head of security “…it was a medical issue, that (Murderbot) needed them to fully interact with (its) environment and communicate.” mostly as an excuse meant to irritate the woman, but I don’t think she was actually that far off with that assessment. MB is designed to process input from an entire network of cameras and sensors. Having just it’s own eyes and ears makes it feel practically blind (a major issue in Network Effect and System Collapse), not to mention its preference for looking at people through external cameras to avoid eye contact anxiety during conversations.
Once Murderbot realises it can buy its own drones? Dear god. It’s gonna go buck wild. Just purchase an absolutely ludicrous amount. No more worrying about running out of them. No more feeling blind in areas where there’s no security cameras to hack. It’s got its own drone army it can deploy wherever the fuck it wants to go. Preservation Station is going to be crawling with the fuckers.
And where’s it gonna keep its drone army? In its rediculous amount of pockets.
There’s a really cool scene in Exit Strategy where MB buys its own clothes for the first time.
When I put the new clothes on, I had a strange feeling I usually associated with finding a new show on the entertainment feed that looked good. I “liked” these clothes. Maybe I actually liked them enough to remove the quotation marks around “liked.” I don’t like things in general that can’t be downloaded via the entertainment feed.
Maybe because I’d picked them myself.
I think it’s gonna want to experiment more with that feeling. It’s not the kind of person to be into fashion, but it does have some strong feelings about clothes. It hates logos of any kind. It prefers dark colors. Lots of pockets are a must. It likes the idea of wearing lots of layers to make it feel protected from the world. It has a melt down in Network Effect and refuses to talk to anybody until its jacket is returned.
It wouldnt see the need to wear a different outfit every day like humans do, but I think it could get really into picking out a new set for each mission, specifically tailored for whatever the mission requires, mix matching tactical gear with casual clothes, and maybe an occasional subtle nod to something a character from one of its favorite shows wears.
And if those are the only two things it’s spending it’s money on, oh you best believe it is getting top of the line. No more shitty Company tm crap. Its shoes cost as much as a security consultant makes in a year, because that was the only thing it needed to spend money on that year.
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