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Murderbot | SecUnit ([personal profile] offinventory) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-09-14 05:34 pm (UTC)

Murderbot has been here for only a handful of cycles. It lacks context for what constitutes the size of regular objects that wash up on the beach. After all, the items it recognized—even when that pisses it off—were a range of sizes up to and including a company cubicle. It can fit inside one of those. Sure, it's no big hopper, but it's many scales larger than the drone diving through the water.

"Maybe that's why they sunk," Murderbot suggests. It has no idea how the cubicle made it ashore. It too should have sunk. Despite the duty to provide security, Murderbot has a lot of experience lugging heavy objects around for the humans, whether setting up a hub or loading one of the hoppers. No one pays that much simply for a SecUnit to stand there doing 'nothing.'

The drone soars—swims, it guesses—through the water between enormous curving objects on the sea floor, some with spikes like comm arrays or weapons. However, having been on a water world recently enough (as in a matter of cycles before coming here, even if the experience feels forever ago), Murderbot says quietly, "Boats. Wow they're bad at their jobs." Boats are supposed to be on top of the water, not under it.

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