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Why have a bed that could easily accommodate four medium to large humans when you only had one hook for towels in the bath facility? Were the humans supposed to share the towel?

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The problem with gunships is they want to shoot at stuff. That’s why they’re so expensive to write bond contracts for. I said, No, don’t shoot at us. For fuck’s sake, ART. If everybody would just let me do my stupid job for one minute.

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I said, “The humans think I’m an asshole, wait till they get to know you.”

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I wanted to talk to a human right now about as much as I wanted to lose a couple of limbs and have a conversation about my feelings.

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Mensah had seen me when she signed the rental contract. But she had barely looked at me and I had barely looked at her because again, murderbot + actual human = awkwardness.

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I was getting an idea. It was probably a bad idea. (When most of your training in tactical thinking comes from adventure shows, that does tend to happen.)

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The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.

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I was getting tired of being told what to do. Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

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(SecUnits also have less than null interest in human or any other kind of sex, trust me on that.)

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Compared to a lot of things that had happened to me, you’d think it wouldn’t matter. But here, now, for some reason, it mattered.

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Yeah, corporations suck.

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In human terms, it was like trying to ignore someone large and breathing heavily while they watched your personal display surface over your shoulder.

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'The company could be bribed to conceal the existence of several hundred survey teams on this planet.' Survey teams, whole cities, lost colonies, traveling circuses, as long as they thought they could get away with it.

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Being terrified was starting to give way to being really angry.

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I know I’m a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous.

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(Apparently getting free will after having 93 percent of your behavior controlled for your entire existence will do weird things to your impulse control.)

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I posted a feed ID with the name SecUnit, gender = not applicable, and no other information.