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Bharadwaj's documentary insight helps save the polar colonists, and Murderbot now wants her help naming a path through construct trauma.
Bharadwaj's unfinished documentary taught Murderbot that stories make abstract exploitation emotionally real. That insight shaped Murderbot's Documentary, whose rapid spread helped the polar colonists recognize Barish-Estranza's coercion.
After the crisis, Ratthi and Arada plan to involve Bharadwaj in developing trauma recovery for free SecUnits. Murderbot has already supplied data from its false-memory incident and wants to message Bharadwaj, because explaining things to her often clarifies what it wants. It is not ready to participate in program design, but it now knows recovery is something it needs rather than evidence it should be discarded.
An adult planetary field scientist of unspecified features and build, wearing clean practical scientific clothing; no new physical details are established.
Bharadwaj remains the off-page trauma specialist and documentary mentor toward whom Murderbot can move when it is ready.
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