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A free SecUnit conceals deep trauma behind tactical irritation while protecting ART's people on the contaminated colony world.

A formidable sentient research transport guards its crew, needles Murderbot, and covertly overmatches the corporate explorer challenging it.

ART's sharp, composed mission specialist confronts corporate rivals while repairing the colony systems that may keep its people alive.

Barish Estranza

A predatory corporation returns to claim the vulnerable colony, bringing explorers, armed SecUnits, and a veneer of lawful evaluation.

A university crew member helps restore colony infrastructure and quietly protects Murderbot's disguise during a corporate confrontation.

An earnest Preservation biologist keeps calm under an infected bot's reach and instinctively helps Murderbot preserve its human disguise.

A still-active pre–Corporation Rim intelligence guards hidden colonists, seeks its lost counterpart, and cautiously accepts Murderbot's offer of aid.

Polar Settlement

A possibly surviving settlement hides near the polar terraforming engines, beyond two decades of contact and perhaps inside ancient ruins.

A polished corporate supervisor converts a private negotiation into propaganda, making exploitation sound like rescue and consent sound like abandonment.

A newly free former corporate SecUnit practices passing as human while protecting the colony mission and learning self-direction.

A terraformed but traumatized colony remains divided, contaminated, and coveted while outsiders struggle to repair its shattered infrastructure.

Murderbots Documentary

A forty-seven-minute fictional documentary makes corporate indenture personal, then supports its warning with the evidence behind every painful scene.

Alien Remnant Contamination

Ancient alien material unpredictably alters human tissue and machines without intention, leaving powered ruins and compulsive violence across generations.

An older colonist crosses factional lines and risks an explosive confidence to give the rescue mission a chance to find forgotten survivors.

A Preservation scientist's unfinished construct documentary gives Murderbot the conceptual tool to answer corporate propaganda with lived story.

Preservation's resolute leader anchors the rescue from orbit while legal deadlines and a hidden settlement multiply around her.

An armed university vessel emerges from the wormhole at the escape's decisive moment, ending Barish-Estranza's local numerical advantage.

ART's senior negotiator enters a fractured colony without threats and earns the disclosure that overturns the entire rescue plan.

Preservation's fierce legal specialist rebuilds a lost charter into a barrier between traumatized colonists and corporate enslavement.

Preservation Alliance

A non-corporate polity extends its commitment to personhood and asylum into a rescue mission for colonists threatened by salvage law.

A Preservation linguist supplies the colony's language bridge while questioning how far ART's frightening behavior can be excused by trauma.

The hidden colony's primary machine operator greets two rival rescue claims with justified skepticism and cautious, conditional hospitality.

University of Mihira and New Tideland

A secretive non-corporate university fields sentient research ships and specialists to study lost colonies beyond corporate control.

A contaminated ancient intelligence died helping Murderbot save its humans, leaving an unanswered silence for its polar counterpart.

Adamantine Explorations

A vanished colony developer left attractive infrastructure, incomplete records, and a buried connection to an older installation beneath the polar engines.

A desperate corporate employee turns Barish-Estranza's SecUnits against his supervisor, choosing murder and forcible indenture over returning without a contract.

Amena plans to apply to the university after completing her Preservation education, extending her connection to ART's wider world.

Arada helps stabilize the colony and begins designing trauma support that free SecUnits can enter without becoming research property.

A colonist historian turns neglected journals and unverified maintenance reports into a warning about a vanished polar community.

Freed Barish Estranza Secunit

A Barish-Estranza SecUnit silently uses Murderbot's code, rejects immediate rescue, and hides its freedom within the corporation that still believes it enslaved.

Kaede carries technical and contamination experience into the careful second contact shaping the polar community's research agreement.

A nervous young-seeming colonist guides the university delegation into its quarters, embodying the settlement's wary first encounter with outsiders.

ART's biological specialist helps negotiate the polar research future and frames Barish-Estranza's implosion as evidence of corporate unsustainability.

ART's captain balances strategic realism with the exhausting work of moderating a traumatized transport and an expanding planetary crisis.

Holism's support vessel uses its large shuttles and module dock to move willing colonists off the planet efficiently.

Terraforming Engines

An immense automated polar installation sustains the planet while flooding its surroundings with a dense communications and sensor blackout.