SFF — Technobabble (fürs Team)

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Team: Kobold
Challenge: WSci-Fi/Fantasy — Technobabble (fürs Team)
Fandom: Murderbot
Charaktere: Gurathin, Ratthi
Inhalt: Post-Finale Conversation between Ratthi and Gurathing (TV-Show-Verse)

“Do you think it's coming back?”

Ratthi did not bother with introductory small talk. But then Gurathin wasn't in his own room, but in the shared area, so he probably looked like he wanted people to talk to him.

Ratthi looked at him expectantly, and Gurathin considered lying. Then he didn't.

“I don't know.”

Ratthi looked disappointed and Gurathin found himself searching for something he could say, that wasn't a lie, when the next question threw him completely off-balance.

“When it said it was missing 200 episodes of Sanctuary Moon ...”

“You are not seriously asking”

Ratthi didn't let him finish. “Does that mean you downloaded over a thousand episodes of a show you hate. To your own brain?”

He blinked. Ratthi really kept catching him off-guard today.

“Is that your question?”

“No, my question is why?”

“Sorry. The next time I'm breaking into a high security data center on the Corporation Rim, I'll take my time to check each single file, if it's part of a rogue SecUnit's organic storage, a weapon manual or an episode of a really crappy show. That definitely wouldn't have gotten us all killed.”

“Yeah. And I'm sure you only had the possibilities to download everything or to check everything yourself. There's no way you could have like written a filter, that would have stopped you from cramming your brain so full, that even with your augments you had to throw up.”

Ratthi looked directly at him, when he said that.

“They ... might have been important?”

Ratthi kept looking at him.

“Look, I had no idea how it worked. Where it kept its ... stuff.”

Ratthi stared at him for a while longer, and then spoke very slowly. “Are you saying, you thought that it might need hundreds of episodes of mediocre media to function properly?”

“Shit media. Sanctuary Moon is a horrible show.”

“You know that it's a construct. Not an unknown lifeform. We know quite well how they function. And that they don't require media of any quality.”

“Well, this one does.”

“You like it.”

“I can definitely tell you, that I do not like The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon”

“But you do like SecUnit”

Gurathin left the conversation.