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Ganaka Pit

The dead installation where Murderbot uncovers that outside malware, not its choice, caused the massacre.

Story so far

Murderbot finally reaches Ganaka Pit, a sealed, radiation- and toxin-marked ruin at the end of RaviHyral's rerouted tunnels, its power dead and its central hub scattered with debris. Powering consoles from its own weapon, it recovers data SecSystem stashed in MedSystem storage and reconstructs the disaster. A disguised malware, downloaded as a supposed third-party patch for the installation's ComfortUnits and intended only to sabotage a rival by shutting down the hauler bots so their shipment shipped first, was applied over the ComfortUnits' objections.

It jumped through their feeds into SecSystem, which infected the SecUnits, bots, and drones, and everything capable of motion lost its mind. The fifty-seven deaths were an unintended consequence of sabotage, not a mass-murder plot. The pit's four ComfortUnits, unarmed and un-ordered, voluntarily fought and died trying to decoy the maddened units, protect the humans, and reset SecSystem.

Afterward the affair was quietly settled and the site erased. Ten SecUnit cubicles and four smaller ComfortUnit cubicles still stand among the burn scars.

Appearance

A large dark domed installation, power dead, walls streaked with failing emergency markers, littered with debris, tools, and abandoned cubicles amid firefight scars.

Role

The revealed scene of the massacre and the emotional heart of the mystery, where blame shifts from Murderbot to unknown saboteurs.

Relationships

Murderbot — Returns to it to learn the massacre was caused by malware, and to grieve the ComfortUnits who died there.
ComfortUnit — Four of them died here trying to save everyone, an act that later stays Murderbot's hand toward another of their kind.
RaviHyral — The moon that buried the pit's existence to protect the mining trade.
Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
  • The small, map-erased RaviHyral installation where fifty-seven died in the massacre Murderbot half-remembers.
Chapter 6
  • The dead installation where Murderbot uncovers that outside malware, not its choice, caused the massacre.
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