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The Preservation scientist who proposes documenting Murderbot's story to advance construct citizenship.
Dr. Bharadwaj, a Preservation scientist Murderbot saved on the original survey, twice steers book four's larger politics. Early on, her terse public statement that Preservation is 'taking steps' with GrayCris reads to Murderbot as a coerced signal that Dr. Mensah is a hostage. In the resolution, through Mensah, she asks Murderbot to consider making its story public—not as a newsfeed item but as a documentary account—to support a growing Preservation movement to win full citizenship for constructs and high-level bots.
Even Murderbot releasing the goodbye message it sent Mensah, she suggests, could help. To Murderbot the idea is both terrifying and terrifyingly attractive.
An adult Preservation field scientist of otherwise unspecified features, in practical clothing; seen chiefly via a news statement and Mensah's relay.
Preservation scientist and advocate; the voice proposing Murderbot's story as a citizenship-movement documentary.
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