Murderbot
The secretly free rogue SecUnit narrator, traveling alone to uncover the truth about a massacre it half-remembers committing.
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Art
An immensely powerful, nosy university research-transport AI that adopts Murderbot as a project and companion.
Comfortunit
A ComfortUnit construct, glimpsed hunting for SecUnits on RaviHyral, its purpose still unknown.
Tapan
The youngest, most hopeful technologist of the collective, unwilling to give up on their stolen work.
location
Ganaka Pit
The small, map-erased RaviHyral installation where fifty-seven died in the massacre Murderbot half-remembers.
Maro
The sharp, cynical technologist of the collective who expects the worst from Tlacey and is usually right.
Rami
The reluctant, conscientious leader of the robbed technologist collective who hires Murderbot.
location
Ravihyral
The mining moon where Murderbot once went rogue, its chosen destination and the key to its question.
Tlacey
The ruthless augmented-human head of Tlacey Excavations, personally hunting the technologists she robbed.
item
Combat Override Module
A device that hijacks a SecUnit through its dataport; inert against Murderbot's disabled port.
Dr Mensah
Preservation Alliance leader who bought Murderbot's freedom; absent but central to its thoughts.
item
Governor Module
The control device that enforces a SecUnit's obedience through punishment; Murderbot's is secretly hacked.
faction
Graycris
The corporate villain of Murderbot's last contract, now the target of a multi-party legal siege.
Pin Lee
Sharp PreservationAux specialist, seen only in a newsburst image beside Murderbot.
location
Port Freecommerce
The Company station Murderbot fled: site of the offices, deployment center, and its old repair cubicle.
faction
Preservationaux
The non-corporate survey team Murderbot once protected, now fighting GrayCris in the courts.
Ratthi
Warm PreservationAux scientist, glimpsed only in a newsburst image with Murderbot.
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Sanctuary Moon
Murderbot's favorite serial drama, a colony saga it has rewatched countless times for comfort.
creature
Secunit
Security constructs of cloned human tissue and machine parts, feared killing machines governed by control modules.
faction
The Collective
A traveling group-marriage of seven technologists robbed of their strange-synthetics research by Tlacey.
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The Company
Murderbot's former owner: a cheap, paranoid, data-hungry corporate security-bond provider.
faction
Tlacey Excavations
A small Umro subcontractor that stole its technologists' research and is luring them to their deaths.
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Umro
The company consolidating RaviHyral's mining claims, parent to Tlacey's subcontractor.
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Worldhoppers
An exploration-ship adventure serial that ART becomes obsessively, tearfully attached to.
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