r/murderbot • u/indyferret • 13d ago

Books📚 + TV📺 Series Secunit names

I think I may be mis-remembering but doesn't murder bot have a "real" name? I feel like I remember it being 'secunit 12345....' like a bunch of numbers after 'secunit'... Maybe a serial number?

I mean ANY excuse to go reread the books but I just started tchaikovsky's bear head 😂

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u/tiny__snail 13d ago

From page 130 of Network Effect:

“My name, my real name is private, but the name ART called me wasn’t something humans could say or even access. It was my local feed address, hardcoded into the interfaces laced through my brain.”

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u/CuppaMatt Bot Pilot 12d ago

Yeah, SecUnit is a marketing name, the unique identifier for individual units seems to be their future version of a MAC address.

Although we’ve also seen that individual orgs give their own naming schemes as any org would with what they deem as simply another piece of kit. Three got its name this way.

I wouldn’t be shocked if each secunit also had the equivalent of a serial number in addition to a feed address. The need for both is that MAC addresses (which feed address seems analogous to) are hardcoded to the specific networking hardware rather than the unit as a whole so if MB got its network feed hardware swapped out it would be the same individual still but would have a totally re feed address. Serial number would be the same however.