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[serialmurderbot]

NICE SUGGESTIONS TO NOT FUCKING DIE

[Thanks for the name suggestion Arcade; SecUnit clearly didn't take to heart any of the other parts about not being able to tell people what to do.]

1. Never leave the Convoy [Convoy defined as the main trailers plus the radius of the shield and additional vehicles, approximately 80 meters] alone. Survey and scavenging groups should consist of at least 2 members.

2. When leaving the Convoy always inform someone outside of your party of your intended itinerary and duration of travel.

3. Perform regular check-ins during the excursion [ideally every 15 minutes] via the radio.

4. Bring a method of defense that you have training and certification in. This should be used as a LAST RESORT, if unable to avoid aggressive wildlife. Call for backup before engaging.

5. In an emergency situation safety of survey personnel is priority one. Abandon all equipment if necessary. Yes, even if that means the aggressive fauna will destroy it. Or eat it.

6. Never operate a vehicle or weapon while any of the following: Intoxicated, sleep-deprived, distracted, experiencing physical illnesses such as migraines, gastrointestinal symptoms, blood loss, etc.

7. Do not consume or touch unfamiliar plants or other food items without first confirming their safety for human ingestion. Licking counts as consuming.

8. Don't startle your SecUnit.

Comments

[serialmurderbot]

[In the shows it likes, there's always a big, dramatic moment that causes a character to change sides, like being asked to shoot a loved one, or a child, or something. It's seen the ways people actually get broken. It... kind of had one itself, actually. But that wasn't enough to make it go really rogue. It just stayed anyway.

So it gets that.

And it gets the horror that sentiment evokes, too.]

... There was a mining corporation that kept indentured wage slaves on a colony - they had started to smuggle people out, but the Corporation tried to kidnap them back. They're like that.

[Which sounds kind of callous, so it attempts adding,]

It sucks.

[constantvrunning]

To put it mildly.

[Though words often didn't feel like enough to express such... evil, that people did.]

... They can't follow us here, though. I had found more people to stand up against the Empire with, there, as well as make our own lives, but can't contact them here either.

[serialmurderbot]

They can't do shit if they don't have power, even if they do show up.

[Though, SecUnit has a vivid memory of a particular speech... Corporates, or V's Empire, can still do a lot of damage just from people giving them the benefit of the doubt. To what end... Humans have all sorts of motivations.

It'll have to keep being careful.]

... You trying to keep it secret?

[constantvrunning]

And if they did show up, they would be new here. We have an advantage of local knowledge, however slight.

[They consider SecUnit's words, trying to weigh the consequences either way.]

It won't specifically hurt me, to have others know. To make it a conversation I can initiate. But it is... emotionally... still a lot to explain.

[SecUnit is free to imagine an undertone of 'ugh, emotions', even though that's not quite how V feels about the matter.]

[serialmurderbot]

[SecUnit wonders at that - they can't exactly drive someone away from the Convoy. Or if they did, it wonders how the others would react.

... Maybe it should be starting to make contingency plans. It's had to do that for Corporate spies, but it hadn't considered the need to disappear someone.]

Yeah. Explaining is shit.

[And that's even just with those who might get it.]

[constantvrunning]

[... There is one possibility.]

I recall there being significantly more people around the Convoy when we first arrived. Not everyone continued the journey.

[So there is some degree of 'people just disappear' going on, dark as the implication may be.]

[serialmurderbot]

[Yeah it's been trying not to care about that before it just finds its Convoy room and never moves from it again.]

They're probably dead by now.

[constantvrunning]

[Until they get to see a Husk turn back into a person INSTEAD of a monster, V's going to have to take that at face value.]

A plan we can work on in the meantime is writing up prep-files. Rehearsing, before we actually do have to explain to everyone at large, or just more people.

[serialmurderbot]

[That actually gets V a sidelong look, because. What.]

Like an annoucement?

[It sounds like that's the last thing it would ever want.]

[constantvrunning]

Or a disclaimer.

There's no even moderately favorable option, here. And not choosing is a choice.

[Albeit still with its hazards.]

[serialmurderbot]

That's fine.

[It's entirely fine with not spelling out exactly what it is and what that means. People will assume things already based off of what it posted for Rule 8 - it's not going to include a legal packet of what it means to be a SecUnit and why exactly everyone here should be afraid of it according to various sources.]