Kaede turns contamination expertise toward Murderbot’s recovery, helping isolate alien code and manually rebuild the SecUnit before studying ART’s damaged drive.
Kaede returns from the colony surface with her injured arm medically stabilized. She immediately helps Matteo propose an isolated run box for the contaminated code inside Murderbot, then works with Ratthi and Thiago on the physical reconstruction that cannot use ART’s connected scanners.
After the SecUnit stabilizes, Kaede joins Overse, Matteo, and Tarik in the engineering pod to study residue from ART’s alien-contaminated drive. Their analysis confirms that specialist university decontamination is required before the transport can safely use a wormhole.
Kaede ends reunited with the full university crew, physically recovering and applying the outbreak knowledge gained during captivity to both Murderbot’s survival and the transport’s eventual release from the system.
Kaede is a small adult woman with light skin and yellow hair. She wears clean dark-blue crew clothing with her badly bruised right arm stabilized in a medical support pack.
Kaede is a contamination analyst and hands-on rescuer. Her work bridges the crew’s traumatic field knowledge with safe treatment for both Murderbot and ART.