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A self-liberated SecUnit protects Preservation researchers while concealing anxiety beneath tactical brilliance, violence, and relentless sarcasm.

Murderbot's immensely capable research-transport friend reappears as a weaponized, apparently empty ship whose invaders claim to have deleted it.

Mensah's headstrong adolescent daughter resents being guarded, though Murderbot sees dangers her confidence cannot yet measure.

A gifted Preservation linguist distrusts Murderbot yet risks himself to seek peaceful contact with armed strangers.

The survey leader's compassion does not prevent her from taking a precisely timed shot to save Thiago.

A calm field medic coordinates the facility's escape while worrying over both her partner and their battered SecUnit.

The earnest Preservation biologist instinctively defends Murderbot's personhood even during a dangerous hostage standoff.

Target Control System

An unidentified control intelligence pilots stolen Perihelion, commands stealth drones, and adapts its defenses to Murderbot's every successful attack.

A battered corporate employee escapes interrogation and urgently directs Murderbot's group away from the drones controlling Perihelion.

Tall gray-skinned invaders with sharp teeth, stealth armor, and sadistic curiosity occupy Perihelion without understanding most of its systems.

An isolated, supposedly abandoned colony system holds signs of habitation, ART's missing crew, and the unanswered catastrophe that enabled the takeover.

At least five missing university crew members survive captivity long enough to flee the explorer and descend bloodied toward the colony surface.

Barish Estranza

The corporation employing two battered prisoners aboard Perihelion has an unexplained stake in the invaders' hunt for a mysterious weapon.

A vast organic remnant fused to Perihelion's engines forces wormhole journeys to unfold at impossible speed.

Barish Estranza Explorer

A configurable corporate explorer lures ART with a medical distress call, docks before the first memory loss, and becomes the rescuers’ only concrete lead.

An augmented member of ART's missing crew notices that Adamantine employees may have died deliberately erasing the colony's path from corporate records.

Preservation's leader entrusts her family to Murderbot's protection with the certainty born of surviving beside it.

A copied Murderbot infiltrates the explorer, finds ART’s imprisoned crew, and offers SecUnit 3 freedom just before Target Control detects it.

Frozen outside seven implanted prisoners, SecUnit 3 shares decisive intelligence while weighing a rogue copy’s offer to disable its governor module.

Karime remains alive aboard the captured explorer, immobilized through an implant while ART’s copied SecUnit consciousness infiltrates the prison ship.

Martyn survives the explorer’s takeover but lies immobilized by an implant among the seven prisoners Murderbot 2.0 is preparing to free.

A frightened corporate captive recognizes Murderbot as a SecUnit but initially mistakes autonomy for an ordinary chain of command.

Turi is found alive but implant-frozen aboard the explorer, one of three university hostages behind Murderbot 2.0’s exposed rescue attempt.

Adamantine Explorations

A vanished corporation seeded the newer colony, then lost employees and its coordinate database during a takeover that may have concealed the settlement deliberately.

Art Medical System

Perihelion's dormant medical intelligence awakens without command and saves Eletra, echoing the absent bot pilot's fierce protection of humans.

Barish Estranza Supply Transport

A battle-damaged corporate carrier holds possible witnesses, thirty-plus support staff, and the confidential answers Perihelion’s rescuers urgently need.

A compassionate Preservation scientist records Murderbot's account while gently identifying trauma the SecUnit edits out of its own story.

The predatory corporation that targeted Mensah is collapsing under a ruthless counterattack from Murderbot's former owner.

The senior security officer calmly secures the aftermath of GrayCris’s council attack, relieving the wounded and summoning containment for an assassin who will not stay dead.

Kaede survives with a badly injured arm and explains that the colony’s second contamination outbreak split physical illness from psychological change.

A guarded corporate supervisor bargains for repairs and Eletra’s return while refusing to discuss the attack outside Barish-Estranza confidentiality.

Matteo reaches the surface bloodied and tool-less, recounts the colonists’ flight from contamination, and questions whether their hivemind claim is merely delusion.

Thirty-two exploration devices become ART’s improvised missile arsenal, making its threat against the colony terrifyingly credible.

Seth challenges Murderbot’s identity, supplies the crew’s factional analysis, and collapses during the escape before Iris and Thiago save him.

A powered orbital dock and lift tower preserve the compromised contact party’s trail while exposing a colony architecture built to prevent escape.

A surface-linked intelligence calls Murderbot 2.0 a software ghost, reveals Murderbot’s capture, and becomes the copy’s unwilling route to the planet.

Tarik escapes the explorer with an abdominal injury and argues that the colonists’ alien-hivemind belief is delusion rather than contact.

Unidentified Sender

A trapped legacy system repeats a precise plea for help from inside Target Control’s blockade and guides Murderbot toward its contaminated chamber.

The sea platform's resident system translates speech, coordinates communications, and supports Murderbot's defense of the survey.

Mensah's perceptive partner respects her need for space and approaches Murderbot's undefinable place in their family without fear.

Palisade Security Group

GrayCris’s hired security service destroys itself by escalating against a Company gunship, triggering retaliation that breaks its client’s ability to threaten Preservation.

Pansystem University

A university disguises covert anti-corporate rescue work as research, manufacturing legal protection for colonies abandoned to predatory reclamation.

Pin-Lee crosses the wormhole with Mensah and immediately brings Corporation Rim legal skill to the fight over the contaminated colony.

Pre Cr Installation

A buried predecessor colony hides the original contamination breach, abandoned machinery, a pleading central system, and Target Control’s corpse-grown network.

Preservation Alliance

Preservation sends an armed responder before corporate reinforcements, rescues its people, shelters Three, and joins the legal defense of the contaminated colony.

Preservation Station

Preservation’s orbital civic hub becomes the concealed site of a near-successful assassination inside its own council offices.

The baseship's dark-browed pilot coordinates a desperate separation while an attacker drags the crippled expedition toward a wormhole.

A corporate SecUnit obeys a stand-down order and is abandoned beyond contract range, where its governor module kills the rescuer it might have become.

The colony’s silent lift terminal hides ART’s five fugitives amid a civil battle, then becomes the site of Murderbot’s catastrophic last stand.

A battered station officer keeps fighting an enhanced assassin beside Murderbot, survives the attack, and confirms that the apparently dead operative may revive.