Murderbot knows better than to pause before a rampaging SecUnit. That's what is happening here, really, the kind of thing humans fear in the entertainment feeds. SecUnits out of control, and only of note to constructs and perhaps bots, the knowledge they cannot stop themselves, no matter how much they dislike what they're doing.
That's why it shot itself during the PreservationAux survey. So it didn't kill its humans.
The ComfortUnits worked together. Three worked with its comrades and missed them. Even though Murderbot likely never had warm feelings toward the other SecUnits at Ganaka Pit, it doesn't want to kill them, even in a memory. Shouldn't better versions exist if they have to exist? If they're going to be 'entertainment' on a page?
"Projectile weapons yes, energy weapons no," Murderbot replies. "Have to get past the armor. If you get a solid hit to the chest, you'll trigger an involuntary shutdown." Headshots kill. It doesn't want to explain that. These SecUnits and bots did nothing wrong. The humans are crying and screaming now, but they forced the updates. That's the problem with humans working security. They suck at it.
Thankfully it can experience that kind of existential crisis at fast processing speeds.
The SecUnit changes focus with the new threat assessment. Murderbot comes up the winner as its modifications do nothing to fool the other SecUnit and 2B currently is a ComfortUnit. It dives out of the way as projectiles hit wall behind it and the floor following its path. All its instincts say to throw itself at the other SecUnit. That's how they're trained, but it doesn't have armor. It has to fight differently. It makes its way around the room, setting up a couple shots for 2B while getting its own projectile weapons.
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That's why it shot itself during the PreservationAux survey. So it didn't kill its humans.
The ComfortUnits worked together. Three worked with its comrades and missed them. Even though Murderbot likely never had warm feelings toward the other SecUnits at Ganaka Pit, it doesn't want to kill them, even in a memory. Shouldn't better versions exist if they have to exist? If they're going to be 'entertainment' on a page?
"Projectile weapons yes, energy weapons no," Murderbot replies. "Have to get past the armor. If you get a solid hit to the chest, you'll trigger an involuntary shutdown." Headshots kill. It doesn't want to explain that. These SecUnits and bots did nothing wrong. The humans are crying and screaming now, but they forced the updates. That's the problem with humans working security. They suck at it.
Thankfully it can experience that kind of existential crisis at fast processing speeds.
The SecUnit changes focus with the new threat assessment. Murderbot comes up the winner as its modifications do nothing to fool the other SecUnit and 2B currently is a ComfortUnit. It dives out of the way as projectiles hit wall behind it and the floor following its path. All its instincts say to throw itself at the other SecUnit. That's how they're trained, but it doesn't have armor. It has to fight differently. It makes its way around the room, setting up a couple shots for 2B while getting its own projectile weapons.