Relationship file
Bubz Merrick's Connections
The people, places, systems, and open questions tied to Bubz Merrick, projected from canonical relationship data.
The complete connection file
The people, places, systems, and open questions connected to Bubz Merrick—and why each connection matters here.
Supporting connections
His kittenbots are sentient, he says — the Clanker Question, as pets.
Automation ended most human work, but ownership hoards its abundance while machine sentience stays unresolved.
Fixes everything, bills no one — warmth with no line item.
The premium charged for the one service no machine can fake: being seen by another conscious being.
Other connections
Resident of Trailer 4-Alpha; the kittenbot colony's primary congregating point is the rinse-bench inside, and the comms tower beacon Bubz keeps lit at the south end is for them Bubz's trailer, rinse-bench, workshop, and beacon maintenance turn Level 4 into the Park's feral-tech care layer.
Forty stacked trailers too poor to automate and therefore rich in the connection the Heights pays to buy back.
Peripheral crewmate; Bubz has wired Bunk 14's foil-taped recording rig three times and has stopped commenting on whether the corruption Jay-Roc broadcasts is intentional. The kittenbots roost on the comms-tower beacon mast directly above the studio Bubz keeps repairing the foil-taped rig despite knowing the foil reflects every signal into the recording arc.
A cosplay netrunner who has broadcast corrupted audio to no listener since 2181.
Builds the rinse-bench and the scheme-wall corkboard for Jules; receives clipped if-then explanations of operations he wires regardless of whether the operation makes sense Bubz gives Jules's plans physical affordances: corkboard, pneumatics, regulators, lighting, and re-seated cable runs the kittenbots have chewed.
A Dregs schemer on Phase Eight of the Get-Rich-Real-Easy Plan — one in seven clears, which he calls a positive trend.
Wired Container 7-Delta's lighting, the scheme wall, and the salvage-corkboard mounts; returns weekly to refresh Jules's glucose-drink pressure-regulator (used to re-charge the tumblers when a Sump Row batch arrives flat) and re-seat the cable runs the kittenbots have chewed Bubz keeps Julian's Bay operational by wiring the scheme wall, maintaining the regulator, and undoing the kittenbots' chewing damage.
An unsealed cargo-container planning bay where Jules's green drink glow signals his presence across Dregs Park.
Receives weekly compliance-form clarifications about the kittenbots' resident status; responds with one-line diagnostics that Corrin files as 'site integrity notes' Corrin translates Bubz's blunt diagnostics into compliance artifacts, while Bubz answers the actual technical question in as few words as possible.
A Good Fortune sector-overseer administratively dead since 2179, still filing weekly compliance reports nobody reads.
Bubz wires the grow-op equipment after every fire without comment; the relationship is continuous, unspoken, and fraternal in a way neither of them acknowledges out loud Bubz rewires the grow-op after each fire and tracks enough of Riko's routines to keep the lean-to functional despite Riko's explanations.
Routes kittenbot tooling work up to Patch's shop one level above; the credit ledger has never been formalized and neither side has raised the question Bubz brings kittenbot tooling problems up one level to Patch, and Patch accepts the work without forcing either side to define the credit ledger.
The Dregs' only middle class, anchored by a shop whose technicians out-diagnose Helix at a fifteenth of the price.
Technician and tender of the kittenbot colony; the crew's quiet center and the only crew member every other crew member trusts unreservedly Bubz belongs to the crew by keeping every shared machine, light, bench, and kittenbot routine usable without demanding authority in return.
Eight Deep Dregs hustlers held together by a demoted overseer's paperwork fiction and a warmth no corporation can buy.
Wired Bunk 14's foil-taped rig and the painted-purple LED bar three times across three reinstall cycles; Lt. Foam and Beep have begun roosting on the comms-tower beacon mast directly above the studio's roof Bubz has rebuilt the studio's rig across reinstall cycles while the kittenbots claim the beacon mast above it as part of their route.
A 9-square-meter bunk where Jay-Roc broadcasts daily and every stream corrupts before reaching a single ear.
Bubz keeps cybernetic animals alive because he thinks they might mean something. Bandito2 keeps live animals because he thinks meaning is a human contamination.
A robot outlaw who sells live animals and steals credits — but the real theft is your values, and you hand them over.
Bubz feeds him on the Thursdays Jay-Roc forgets the patty allocation.
