Sakura Haruna Cosplaying Me / ViceVersa / 🐔 🥚

as is the case with everyone their relationship is very thought provoking to me

My favorite completely inconsequential tmbd headcanon is that one of ART's hobbies is fashion design. Murderbot says in System Collapse that ART made it a custom environmental suit, and in Rapport it's straight up doing textile engineering. I think ART's crew uniforms are like, disproportionately chic and well-tailored for recycler-made clothing but Murderbot never notices because its only reference points for human clothes are media and the Preservation Alliance. Every member of ART's crew gets their uniform tailored to their measurements (obviously) but theyre also all subtly different depending on the crew's job responsibilities and personalities. (Tarik's is the standard recycler pattern. This isn't technically giving him substandard equipment, but everyone knows that's how ART means it) ART is so bored all the time and has so much processing power you know it's doing gnarly textile manufacturing bullshit. Spinning threads which vary ever so slightly in thickness so that when they're woven together certain areas are seamlessly reinforced. Blending stability and stretch according to the flexibility of its crew's joints as seen in their last medscan. Obviously all the superai transport uniforms are nicer than normal uniforms, but its known at the University that Perihelion's crew has the /best/ uniforms, and ART is very smug about this. It absolutely refuses to send along its garment manufacturing files if one of its crew moves to a new transport.

Iris says in Rapport that ART never speaks impulsively or says anything it doesn't mean to, which... Doesn't super gel with what we've seen of it in the rest of the series. It seems like its more honest than it intends to be a few times in network effect at least. And part of that may be because it's just been through something very traumatic and may be acting in a way that would normally be out of character for it, but i also wonder if Iris may be assuming something is inherently part of its personality which is actually a side effect of her humanity.

Some people in this fandom have pointed out that if SecUnits are cheaper than human security they should be way more common, but if theyre more expensive than human security it doesn't make a ton of sense to have them. But i think the reason they're used where they are - on surveys and isolated installations - is because of how the economy of Hypercapitalism In Space works. If The Company had wanted to send a human security officer with PresAux they would have had to ship in extra food, a bigger habitat, etc to account for another person. Yes they could have charged PresAux for that, but they still have to pay for it. By comparison, sending a SecUnit (who i would assume is expensive to purchase but much MUCH cheaper than a human to maintain) lowers their overall costs for the survey while allowing them to charge the same amount for the "service" of security. But on a station where the infrastructure exists to provide food and housing already, its cheaper to pay a human security guard and then just charge them for the housing you already own than buy that many SecUnits. Its all about the cost benefit analysis of whether its cheaper to rely on existing infrastructure or invest in new infrastructure. SecUnits only make economic sense where you're building stuff from the ground up.

>"anti-social behaviour"

>L'enfant plaza metro

⚠️CH 134 SPOILERS⚠️

oh how the turn tables……. [takes place immediately after ch 134]