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21 " The reason why they were trying to kill, maim, etc., each other wasn’t the SecUnit’s problem, it was for the humans’ supervisor to deal with. (Or to willfully ignore until the whole project devolved into a giant clusterfuck and your SecUnit prayed for the sweet relief of a massive accidental explosive decompression, not that I’m speaking from experience or anything.) "
― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
22 " 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.) "
23 " I had to run back the drone’s camera feed to catch up, I had been so busy conquering that burst of non-annoyance. "
24 " I tuned down my pain sensors and the impact sites faded from explosions down to embers. (I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.) "
25 " Fucking up a planet, even part of a planet, for no reason was kind of a big deal, and I was surprised they had gotten away with it. Okay, no, I wasn’t surprised. "
26 " there’s the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic. "
27 " It was a security consultant’s job to be skeptical of their clients’ assurances that everything was fine. (SecUnit clients, at least, only assured each other that everything was fine while you stared at the wall and waited for everything to go horribly wrong.) "
28 " Miki said, It’s okay, Rin. Don Abene is always cautious. I’d seen lots of dead cautious humans, but I wasn’t going to say that to Miki. "
29 " Miki, damage report.” “I am at eighty-six percent functional capacity.” It held up its arm stump. “It’s only a flesh wound. "
30 " As a SecUnit, a large part of my function was helping the company record everything my clients did and said so the company could data mine it and sell anything worthwhile. (They say good security comes at a price and the company takes that literally.) "
31 " humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data. "
32 " I stared straight ahead. If there was one thing good about this situation, it was reinforcing how great my decisions to (a) hack my governor module and (b) escape were. Being a SecUnit sucked. I couldn’t wait to get back to my wild rogue rampage of hitching rides on bot-piloted transports and watching my serials. "
33 " Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal? "
34 " I had stopped watching it when the mutants dragged off the group’s biologist to eat him. Seriously, this was exactly the kind of situation I was designed to prevent. "
35 " In the bot-fighting business, small mistakes like that get you torn apart. "
36 " Human security had literally just noticed that something had tried to steal their client’s head. "
37 " Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot. "
38 " The core cutter had powered up and accessed my feed to deliver a canned warning and a handy set of directions. Why yes, I did want to disengage the safety protocols, thanks for asking. "
39 " That’s how SecUnits are taught to fight: throw your body at the target and kill the shit out of it, "
40 " The company had never given us armor that nice, though in its defense, our armor did get blasted off us at regular intervals. "