The Compendium

Preservation Alliance leader who bought Murderbot's freedom; absent but central to its thoughts.

The control device that enforces a SecUnit's obedience through punishment; Murderbot's is secretly hacked.

The corporate villain of Murderbot's last contract, now the target of a multi-party legal siege.

The secretly free rogue SecUnit narrator, traveling alone to uncover the truth about a massacre it half-remembers committing.

Sharp PreservationAux specialist, seen only in a newsburst image beside Murderbot.

The Company station Murderbot fled: site of the offices, deployment center, and its old repair cubicle.

The non-corporate survey team Murderbot once protected, now fighting GrayCris in the courts.

Warm PreservationAux scientist, glimpsed only in a newsburst image with Murderbot.

The mining moon where Murderbot once went rogue, its chosen destination and the key to its question.

Security constructs of cloned human tissue and machine parts, feared killing machines governed by control modules.

Murderbot's former owner: a cheap, paranoid, data-hungry corporate security-bond provider.