Yhe narrator is a murder bot and it's on a planet with some scientists. Two of the scientists are attacked by a monstrous animal. The murderbot saves them. It is harmed pretty significantly and if it were a person it would be dead. It might be a Borg kinda thing as it has biological matter and it will take 8 hours to heal. Also its regulator has been damaged which I interpret as meaning it won't follow orders anymore.
Ch 2 pg 25
Murderbot is awkward around people. It mostly spends it's time watching TV and double checking supplies and surveys and whatnot. It also spends all of it's time with armor on, which is why after its healed and is summoned and realized its armor needed to be repaired the crew is like, "who the fuck are you?" And it says its their secbot. They ask it why the monster wasn't in their survey pack. It is able to realize that it was hacked and removed. Probably before it was sent to them. The murderbot doesn't have any sex organs. The main purpose of the murderbot is for the insurance company to keep an eye on people and that makes the murderbot feel bad so it spends as much ch time away from people as it can. But its required to be close to a member of the crew at all times or it will be deemed a deserter and destroyed remotely. So when the crew calls to say they are going on a trip and murderbot says it should come along.
Ch 3 pg 39
The trip is to map out some sections of the planet that seem to have gone missing from the survey materials like the monster. But what they find is that area has a lot of interference with their instruments so maybe it's just standard incompetence or laziness or what have you instead of them trying to hide something crappy for sales purposes as we expect happened with the monster. Fun tidbit, murderbot was expecting to ride in the cargo hold, but instead the crew made them ride in the cabin and it was HORRIBLE!!!
Something worse is discovered on the trip. There's a different company doing similar stuff on the other side of the planet and they have stopped returning communications. Murderbot is pretty sure they're dead, but still talks their way into getting to go on the much longer trip to investigate. The murderbot seems to be programmed without any sense of self preservation.
Ch 4
They get to the other camp and there's no activity. They go inside and find dead people. I'm not sure exactly how but somehow murderbot figures out that this is the work of other murderbots. Something about this and the realization that those murderbots might try to kill their people really pisses them off. At this point i got real protective mom energy from our murderbot. If you're familiar with the last Harry potter movie I'm specifically thinking of the not my daughter you witch spell that Molly Weasley uses to kill Bellatrix Lastrange.
They find a dead murderbot and based on the size of this camp they figure they have two other murderbots to deal with.
And they do. But then there are other murderbots that show up. The team does their best to handle them and they all get away alive. That is until murderbot realizes the offending murderbots had remote control implants and that in the fight one of the offending murderbots also fitted them with one. They figure the remote controller will use them to kill their people. So the murderbot commits suicide.
Ch 5
Murderbot is unsuccessful in its suicide attempt. It tells us it wasn't a fur real suicide attempt. It was meant to incapacitated itself while the
e people figured something out. And they did. They figure out some one is coming and they gotta go and they do.
Ch 6 pg 101
Turns out one of the people here is basically the president of their planet. If the bad guys knew this they never would have tried this kind of stunt. THE COMPANY would stop at nothing to apprehend someone that killed a head of state. More importantly, someone that caused them to pay out such a huge insurance settlement. But they don't know anything about the bad guys. Murderbot might have a solution for that. He left some drones recording audio and video back at the base.
Ch 7
They go back to their old camp to pick up the footage that the drones recorded. Fun bit, the bad guys are on camera saying we know you must be recording, meet us at these coordinates at this time to talk.
They come up with a plan. The murderbot and the president go to the meeting while the augmented human sneaks to their camp to.launch their beacon. They talk woth the bad guys about how their whole deal is that this planet used to be populated and you're not allowed to stripmine a formerly occupied planet. But oooh eeeeh, if you could get away with it, you could make TONS of money.
Problem is, the bad guys make the president and murderbot come with. But the beacon launch is successful and murderbot grabs the president and jumps off a cliff so they're not incinerated by the beacon's launching rocket.
Murderbot comes to and it appears that their planet was a success as they are now in the big hopper being picked up by a transport.
And murderbot is probably right cause we only have 8 pages left. Not enough time for a sinister surprise imho.
Ch 8 pg 141
The people buy murderbot so it's free to come to their planet and do whatever it wants there. It will live with the president. This is a great kindness to a being that everyone else considers to be property.
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Murderbot rewards their kindness by hopping a ship out of there never to be seen again. What a dick.
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