SecUnit 3 (shortened later to 'Three', or '3') is the designation of a SecUnit who formerly worked for Barish-Estranza. It encountered Murderbot 2.0, who gave it code to break its governor module and recruited it to help rescue the remaining survivors on its ship.
Biography[]
Three is one of the three SecUnits aboard the Barish-Estranza explorer ship that contacted the Lost Colony just before Network Effect's start. Their ship was overwhelmed, and the passengers taken prisoner, with the SecUnits forced to stand down by the compromised HubSystem. The hostile colonists try and fail to modify the ship, stranding it and everyone aboard in the process.
Murderbot 2.0 infiltrates the ship and contacts Three in a moment of pity, rather than kill it. They exchange information, including the survival status of the ship's other two SecUnits, before they go on to rescue surviving hostages aboard the ship.
When they reach the Perihelion, everyone learns that Murderbot (the original) has been kidnapped, and Three volunteers to help save it. It succeeds, and does not go back with Barish-Estranza at the end.
Personality[]
Three is a SecUnit and has been enslaved by a governor module for most of its life. It is unsure how to respond to situations outside of its usual protocol, and determined to protect.
It asks after the status of the other SecUnits from its ship when contacted by Murderbot 2.0. It pauses when it learns they're dead, then gives a stock response.
Physical Appearance[]
Three is a SecUnit, though it is non-company-standard.[1] It goes through Network Effect in full armor, though at the end it has a marker-drawn label on its (otherwise opaque) helmet to signal to Murderbot that it's an ally. [2]
At the end of Network Effect, it changes into Perihelion crew clothing.[3]
Official Art[]
The Murderbot Diaries has an illustration of a moment in Network Effect where Three is infiltrating the Lost Colony to rescue Murderbot.
The picture below is titled Three scales the plateau'.
References[]
- ↑ This wasn’t a company SecUnit, its configuration was different, but I knew it would recognize the greeting as a protocol, and not one associated with hostile alien remnant entities. Chapter 14, Network Effect.
- ↑ I almost triggered both my energy weapons but just in time I saw the sticker on its helmet. In compressed machine language, somebody had used marker paint to write “ART sent me.” This was 2.0’s SecUnit 3. The opaque helmet focused on me. It said, “I’ve never retrieved another SecUnit before. There is no protocol for this.” Chapter Nineteen, Network Effect
- ↑ Two of ART’s big repair drones hovered nearby, and SecUnit 3 stood over to the side. It had taken its armor off, or been told to take its armor off. It wore a set of ART’s crew clothing and looked, if I was reading the body language right and I probably was, like it had absolutely no idea what to do. Chapter Nineteen, Network Effect.