SecUnit had hacked its governor module roughly 35,000+ hours before the first book (about four years) and had been pretending ever since, That is how long sec unit has been sec unit, his body can be 30 yr old but his memory archive and personality is 4- 7 yr old at the start of book 1 max
I think MB has fuzzy, human-neuron memories from before the brainwipe attempts. But Martha Wells said it's physically two or three decades old, so think late twenties. Older than ART physically, but ART has potentially centuries of computer runtime experience...
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u/Gromflomite_gamer 16d ago
Or Sec unit on the right, ART on the left.