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its april fools have meowderbot doodles

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Another one of those moments where I had to put the book down and stare at the wall for a little bit

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Puppet on a string

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heh. watched the show then immediately went and listened to and finished the first book cause i was absolutely transfixed

little design for murderbot based on what my mind came up while mashing the shows characters with the books lalala definitely… probably not at all canonical but i adorn it so much so i wanted to make it all cool and stuff

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Show Pin Lee as a Lawyer

I've seen some criticism of how Pin Lee is depicted in the show because she/they is not being portrayed as a badass lawyer like she/they is in the books. (she in books/they in show).

I do not understand this criticism, as there is nothing in the situation that can be addressed with lawyering or legal skills at this time.

What is Pin Lee supposed to do as a lawyer?

We know there is no faster-than-light communication. The only way to contact anyone is to send an emergency beacon through the wormhole, which will prompt the company to send a retrieval. There is no way to send mail or e-file anything.

There is a LOT Pin Lee can do once they're off the planet.

Identify and sue the third party, both PresAux and DeltFall have a LOT of claims (if they want to make extra money they could offer to represent DeltFall as well provided there are no concflcts or they waive any conflicts, I don't see any conflicts, depending how many parties were at DeltFall and what a Class is in this world, you might have grounds for a class action)

Sue the company for contributory negligence if it was their fault; it was so easy for a third party to sabotage the company's systems and data

Sue the company for hiding the third party's existence.

Potentially sue the company for failing to discover the alien remnant things since the company mapped this planet, and sold rights, and it's illegal to exploit Alien Remnants, so that should have been disclosed, or possibly the whole thing taken off the market for survey,s depending on if the whole planet is now quarantined/worthless.

Obtain legal ownership of Sec Unit

(Mensah said Murderbot would be free to do what it wants, the easiest way to do that would to legally buy it as opposed to stealing it, so does the rental contract allow them to buy their SecUnit? If not would the Company be willing to sell the SecUnit as part of a potential settlement with the Company for the above speculative claims.

Furthermore, since they have grounds to sue the Company, they can likely can get a court order to get all the data SecUnit has since they will need that for the lawsuits against third party and company (legal action to preserve records, so that it is not wiped).)

There is a lot Pin Lee can do once they can sue about it/send demand letters/notices, etc.

All of this is speculative based on a hypothetical legal system with hypothetical laws, theories, duties, and procedural avenues, which we know nothing about. I can't say what exact claims exist because we don't have enough information.

However, what we can assume is that taking any legal action is not something you can do currently while on a remote planet with no means of outside communication.

Lawyers are like Combat Units, hired guns, but a lawyers weapon is the pen, legal practice is writing. On a planet where you cannot contact anyone there is not legal recourse until you get back from that planet. (They can access any legal databases stored on the Company's satellites and begin drafting things - I guess, though I don't think that would be entertaining to watch - also they don't even know all the facts yet).

(( Disclaimer: This is not legal advice; I'm a lawyer, not your lawyer))

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Murderbot's tumblr headers

Under the cut you can find 3 more headers from the latest episodes of Murderbot.

Please reblog if you use them

Requests are open

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my humble first attempt at a murderbot. i think i accidentally took 400 billion creative liberties but that's ok <3 i hope the fandom accepts my offering. please vehicular manslaughterbbot fandom im.baby 🙏

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That one scene from Network Effect by Martha Wells.

Ngl, drawing that last panel was kind of satisfying. I wish I had skills to draw what happens right after but alas.

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How to introduce yourself to your new best friend, step 1: terrify the living shit out of it.

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Fucked up that our emotional states affect other people. Like you’re already dealing with the massive indignity of having emotions in the first place and then on top of that it’s like “oh btw this other sentient being can tell that you’re annoyed and it negatively affects their well being!” disgusting. Absurd. Unconstitutional. Somebody needs to do something.

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“SecUnit—” Arada started at the same time as Ratthi said, “I don’t think—” ART interrupted, SecUnit’s earlier statement that I “lie a lot” was untrue. I obviously cannot reveal information against the interests of my crew unless circumstances warrant. Arada nodded. “Right. We understand. I think SecUnit is looking out for our interests—”

i’ve been wanting to draw this scene since i first read ne and finally got around to it HSDJKS

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rly quick doodles bc i need to draw out as close to what it looks like in my head as i can b4 i can go into the fandom tag

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I sent, ETA on shuttle arrivals.

ART said, 7.32 minutes at the same time as Holism said, 7.3247 minutes. The resulting silence on the feed was stony.

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You know, on my second read through I'm starting to think - and I mean this with all the love in my heart - that Murderbot might be a little bit of a dumbass

Head empty no thoughts just Sanctuary Moon

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Mensah + mining drill