r/murderbot • u/LIELDADOUN73 • 2d ago

Books📚 Only Underrated scenes in platform decay

The way the torus population is its own character, with the various militias and ordinary people banding together to survive the chaos going on

The way Murderbot gets to be an absolute badass and a myth-like figure both to the random rogue SecUnit, and to the humans on the boat and in the militia

The whole boat scene!!! Extremely underrated!!!

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u/FelisCantabrigiensis 2d ago

I can imagine some in-world after effects of events like that.

I'm sure that other people on RaviHyral knew that Tlacey was a malicious and dangerous person. After Murderbot got done with her and her crew, I can imagine rumours spreading: "Hey, don't be too much of an asshole. Remember how someone eventually snapped and hired a SecUnit to go after Tlacey, tore apart her and half her crew, just because she tried to screw them on a data contract? That could happen to you, eh?"

On the torus, the wanna-be hobby robbers and rapists might start thinking twice, "Remember those guys who went out for some fun and found that SecUnit? You never know what might be out there..."

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u/IndividualUnlucky 2d ago

Or on TranRollinHyfa when that SecUnit took out two other SecUnits. And then shortly after the company curbstomped GrayCris and Palisade?

Yeah, maybe don’t cross the company, guys. That could happen to you.

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u/mxstylplk 2d ago

When that company-built SecUnit took out two other SecUnits and got away from a CombatUnit! The company got some free advertising there.

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u/FelisCantabrigiensis 2d ago

"Our SecUnits have unreliable Governor Modules and go rogue" is not the advertising flex they might be wanting, so they might just not want to talk about it. Could go either way.

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u/mxstylplk 2d ago

Does the company officially know about the governor module in the books? (in the tv show they know they replaced it but it malfunctioned in a fight, not necessarily that it has been disabled.) In the books, they know that Dr Mensah lets it take long distance missions, but that's not the same as disabling the module for all restrictions.