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The eager Preservation biologist who offers Murderbot a bond-free survey job outside the Corporation Rim.
Arada, the enthusiastic Preservation biologist Murderbot once saved from GrayCris, comes with her partner Overse to visit the recovering Murderbot on Preservation. Bouncing with excitement rather than hugging it, she extends a concrete offer: in a few months her group is going on a small assessment survey to an independent site outside the Corporation Rim—no bond company involved—and she wants Murderbot along 'to keep us from getting killed,' asking what it would like in exchange. It is the first job offer that treats Murderbot as a free agent to be hired rather than owned, and one of the several options that give it a reason to stay.
An adult woman planetary biologist of otherwise unspecified features, in practical clothing, animated and warm.
Preservation biologist; the client who offers Murderbot its first bond-free survey work.
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