It's been a while since I've done a cover redraw... Please please please read the murderbot diaries, you won't regret it!

I think the most shocking discovery I made while reading the Murderbot Diaries was the governor module isn't a compulsory module, it doesn't input code to make the SecUnits do anything. Its put in there to fry them when they don't comply... so everything a SecUnit does, it does with fear.

Been enjoying the murderbot diaries and pondering what my personal murderbot appearance beliefs are.

dialog ripped straight from Artificial Condition because i think about that book often. i briefly considered that its post is almost too casual for that point but hear me out, it was fun to draw

unearthed one of my first tmbd sketches and redrew it <3

Fuck it-- murders your bot-- wait.

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Murderbot! Is my newest focus!! I love it so much so ofc I had to draw it in Perihelion's blue. I love it when sci-fi does the half off/open jumpsuit thing so I had to do it to SecUnit. As for the drone shapes... y'all I just love the ocean in space what can I say.

[Image Description: A collection of doodles of Murderbot and drones from the book series The Murderbot Diaries. Center, we have SecUnit standing in Perihelion's blue jumpsuit uniform. SecUnit has medium brown skin and black short, loose curly hair and has an annoyed expression. The top half of the jumpsuit is folded over at the waist and it is wearing a padded black sleeveless turtleneck underneath, showing its arms. Black stripe tattoos can be seen peaking out near the shoulders and It's gun ports are silver plates on its lower arm. It wears a black belt with black straps that hang from it and go around the thighs and the blue pants have a bunch of pockets. It also wears black tactical gloves and black boots. It stands with one hand on it's hips and another arm around ART-Drone, which looks like a jellyfish, with a silver body and tendrils with a blue glass casing and four rings in the center.
The top left is SecUnit jumping over something with one hand on the ground and it's legs in front of the camera. it's needle-like surveillance drones fly around it and partially obscure it's face.
The bottom left is of ART-Drone bonking SecUnit, who looks unbothered. ART-Drone calls it a jackass for not answering it's pings.
The top right is a reference to a tiktok. it is of SecUnit running in perfect form. Ratthi says 'why does SecUnit run like it's Hunting?' to which Murderbot responds 'Start worrying' and Ratthi goes 'oh shit!'
The final drawing is of SecUnit standing to it's back to the camera, ART-Drones and it's drones are hovering around it as it looks into space. Except the ART-Drones look like jellyfish, and it's drones look like a school of fish in an aquarium. the background is a light blue nebula filled with stars. END ID]

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It’s not an ex-SecUnit.

You can’t be an ex-SecUnit until you’re dead.

a secunit

a Miki!

I think its some kind of bug.

[Image Description: a drawing of Miki and Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries. In frame one Miki, a human form bot with an egg shape head and big eyes that take up most of its face, stares at the viewer like the fishbowl anime meme. the second panel shows Miki standing politely and looking at a drone. It had a beetle wing design on its back and ball joints with panels for arms and legs. Murderbot, wearing a hoodie and cargo pants, stands very stiff and looks off camrea, uncomfortable with it's close up drone view of Miki looking at it. END ID]

i feel like MB mentioning how weird and inhuman its feet are makes up like. 60% of the extremely few times it describes itself. and thus: Really Weird SecUnit Feet Propaganda

A family could be an undefinable MI, its rouge SecUnit and their killware.

[Image Descriptions. Several paintings of Murderbot 2.0 and Perihelion from the Murderbot Diaries. The first shows Perihelion as a complicated MI. A large binary star system, surrounded by a blue nebula, iridescent shards of light and hands reaching out into a void. For scale, there is 2.0 a figure silhouetted by red and yellow space dust, it is a featureless black hole. And Murderbot, a figure that shines like a gold sun. The second drawing is a close up of 2.0, the black hole killware reaching out with a ghostly hand. it has hair that is tossed without gravity. it is 'a ghost that kills you.' Third drawing is a reference to a meme. Perihelion says '9 hours in my processors, making me hurt, just for it to look like--' To which 2.0 stops floating around in space and says 'BOO' while transforming into a form that is like Perihelion's in the previous drawing. it has a few red-orange spectral hands and shards of darkness and iridescence. Perihelion thinks it's cute. The final is of a small black hole being cushioned in a blue, green and purple nebula. Perihelion says 'I'm here' END ID]