Murderbot's Physical Features ASR
This is organized by where it was referenced in the book for personal inspiration and if for anyone wanting specific descriptions without scouring the book! Sorry, some stuff went unquoted-- there was a lot of material to look through but I tried to for the more ambiguous descriptions. Feel free to reblog with any physical descriptions you have!
Small energy weapons in both arms. Described "Opened my gun ports and expanded the weapons in my arms, then folded them back in." Seems it can also fire them as is?
Resupply and repair ports
Big projectile gun, held in a harness
Worn armour, with retractable helmet that can go opaque
Protective armour skin for underneath
Arms have organic flesh underneath + inorganic material
Organic shoulder "Weird flashes of sensation, all from my organic parts. Air on my face, my arms, through rips in my suit. On the burning wound in my shoulder."
Mix of organic and inorganic head, organic face
Crew uniform of "grey knit pants, long sleeve t-shirt, and a jacket" exercise clothes style
Six drones, centimetre across, with camera functionality
Some sort of field camera (may or may not be same as drones)
Organic neck "Then something stabbed me in the back of the next. That's organic material--" to "It felt like they were sawing my head off"
Data port in neck. "I could feel something in the port now. My data port"
Armour has individual arm, shoulder, chest and back with logos, and leg pieces. Leg pieces have armour inventory codes.
Long sleeves and jacket cover all the in-organics minus the data port
Stole work boots, protective jacket, enviro-mask, and a knapsack
Cilia and teeth embedded in chest in worm battle
Missing a hand and part of shoulder after deltfall encounter, and blown hip joint
Theories / Implications in Text
Stripped for parts I would imagine would be most... effective... if it was a whole limb, like interchangeable metal shins, fingers, ect, rather than singular metal pieces as much as possible. Cheap ass company isn't going to want to weld new pieces from scrap when they can take the whole leg with them!
I imagine the joints are mechanical potentially for its speed? Supported by secunit identifying hostile deltfall by joint noise
Does it have the equivalent of a windows recycling bin in its head for all the data it deletes...
As a security unit, I wonder if its armour is sort of like, bullet proof vest style.
Secunits are... ambidextrous? The Deltfall units swap weapon hands after its joint gets disabled.
Vision and hearing can go offline, potentially digital based on "I came back online with no vision, no hearing, no ability to move." and "Designed to work with both organic and machine parts, to balance that sensory input. Without the balance, I felt like a balloon floating in mid-air."
or not, since 5 pages later it says "Sound was breaking up. -- My organic parts were not used to processing that much information." Maybe a mix? Digital input and organic processing, or vice versa?
Joints seems to refer to contact points between organic and inorganic
Deltfall's secunit's comm channel is located on the side of its helmet (/maybe face?) It's energy weapons can also fold out of the armour, so there must be space for them to open or react to the opening of the guns.
Assuming its mainly organic parts are what it senses when its crashing, Arada holding its hand might mean organic hand?
Interesting note from the end of ASR that I hadn't noticed until now: Ratthi and Pin-Lee both take it by the arm. Perhaps MB starts asserting / setting boundaries around touch as it gains confidence in itself, so doesn't question or assert it much at the start of its narrative.
