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True plastic is actually super uncommon and is a rare commodity in The Murderbot Diaries universe. This is because plastic proper is made from petroleum oil, which only exists due to a specific millions-of-years-long history of life and death and decomposition on Earth. It's not at all common throughout the galaxy.
Common creating materials instead include paper, glass, bamboo, metal, clay, and from-the-ground-up molecularly synthesized polymers.
“The upside was a paranoid attention to detail.
The downside was also a paranoid attention to detail.”
I love that most bots/ai are so chill it was easier/cheaper to creat hybrid constructs out of clone tissue and then traumatize them into permanent hyper-vigilance than it was to code in a few extra lines on red flags to look out for.
nah that’s too much work and we can’t account for everything, let’s just make a human we can squeak by not having to define as a human so we don’t have to give it basic human rights and then make it scared of everything all the time!
BUT THEN—it would be so easy to tell that story, that humans are inherently terrible and petty and callous etc etc—but that ISN’T the story!
because Murderbot didn’t immediately go on a revenge killing spree when it got its freedom. because despite everything it’s been through it can’t stop trying to help. because everywhere it goes someone tries to be kind to it.
because the human default isn’t selfishness, that’s the aberration.
whether you believe in humans being created out of love or as having evolved as social animals in order to survive (or wherever you fall in the middle ground), the end output is the same; our default is to care about each other
idea for the world of tmbd: corporation rim "protection" companies making sizzle reels from SecUnit / augmented human personnels' helmet cams + eye sensors to advertise their services, flashy music and editing and all video of ship boardings in partial vacuum, perfectly focused view of the HUD / HMD / cockpit of rotary craft during low level flight in terrestrial areas, bot-human constructs visibly outpacing unaugmented personnel of (non-adversary) firms in the rush to an objective non corporate polities and other entities regard them as one of the worse cultural phenomena to come out of the rim, but they are wildly popular within, and emulated by combat footage types outside the rim as well