#how well does that method work if there are other secunits out there that also have your face???? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

coquelicoq · 7 months

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Then the SecUnit said, "They're coming. You have to go." [...] The SecUnit's voice was different from Three's. A different tissue batch, maybe. (System Collapse, chapter 10)

ummm hello can we talk about this?? mb thinks it's notable that not all barish-estranza secunits have the same voice. there are tissue batches, which i knew was a possibility because if you can clone human tissue once presumably you can clone that same tissue/dna more than once, as that is what cloning is all about lol, but...the implications this has?? how many other company units are there out there who are from the same tissue batch as mb?

#and like. remember the time iris was like prove you're peri's secunit by showing me your face?#how well does that method work if there are other secunits out there that also have your face????#and can this be used against mb to put its humans in danger????#i mean this is just about voices so idk maybe the facial tissue is unique to each secunit but i don't see why it would be #it's wild to me that this has never come up before. mb's whole hiding its face/editing itself out of surveillance thing #is serving a lot of purposes (hiding its expressions from humans for emotional vulnerability reasons #and protecting itself from detection by hostile actors trying to capture or kill it for example)#but like. if there are other units that look like it you'd think at some point that would be relevant #idk maybe it's used to being anonymous/identical to all other secunits because of the armor and opaque faceplate #wow my brain is going down seven different avenues related to this and i cannot keep up with any of them #file this under save for later #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #mb meta #system collapse #system collapse spoilers #mb bots and constructs #my posts #like part of it is not just the implications this has for worldbuilding but also #the implications it has for mb given that it's communicating it to us as a throwaway line #you'd think it'd be more relevant to mb given how much time it spends thinking about passing and disguise and #anonymity and trust. so what does it mean that this has never come up before?

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