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A university crew member helps restore colony infrastructure and quietly protects Murderbot's disguise during a corporate confrontation.
Tarik survived the alien intelligence's seizure of ART and completed decontamination with the rest of its eight-person crew. He remains in the lost-colony system while university and Preservation teams work to stabilize the survivors and resolve the transport's contaminated drive.
Tarik joins Iris and Ratthi in repairing an isolated router, then takes shelter when an alien-contaminated agricultural bot attacks. After the rescue, he stays close to Iris as she confronts the arriving Barish-Estranza team. By lowering his environmental visor before emerging, he makes Murderbot's insistence on keeping its own face hidden look like ordinary field preference rather than evidence of a concealed SecUnit.
An adult spacecraft crew member of unspecified features and build, wearing a practical environmental suit with its helmet visor deliberately lowered.
Tarik is a university field specialist whose unobtrusive competence supports both colony repairs and the crew's layered security deceptions.
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