Rogue War Tracker Infinite story
Mensah decides to take Murderbot back to their habitat, when Leebeebee, a surviving member of the DeltFall expedition appears. She confirms that her teammates were killed by seemingly rogue SecUnits. The Preservation team brings her back to their base camp, where they repair and reboot Murderbot. Gurathin, who is still suspicious of the SecUnit, discovers that it has hacked its governor module even before they contracted it, but Mensah declares to still trust Murderbot because of its actions to protect the team. After all that happened, they conclude that there must be an unknown hostile third party on the planet. They agree to activate the emergency beacon, which fails. When Mensah and Murderbot fly to the beacon in order to start it manually, it explodes.
9 total · 2 choice · 2 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI point of view | choice | A point of the story is to speculate on how an android might view humans. The story is mostly narrated by the titular Murderbot's inner thoughts. |
| android | choice | The story follows the titular Murderbot, a humanoid robot with organic parts that functioned as a security unit. There is no indication that Murderbot ever existed as a biological organism that became enhanced with technological parts. |
| AI rights | major | Gurathin uncovered that Murderbot had hacked its governor module, meaning that there was now nothing stopping the android from doing whatever it wanted. This raised the question of what intrinsic freedoms were due to Murderbot. |
| trust | major | The researchers discovered that Murderbot had hacked its governor module and was therefore a free agent that could have killed them at any time. Murderbot complained about the naivete of the scientists. |
| brain-computer interface | minor | Dr. Gurathin had a port in his neck that allowed him to interface directly with computer systems. |
| coping with unwelcome romantic attention | minor | Murderbot and Gurathin both became reluctant objects of Leebeebee's fumbling advances. |
| invasion of privacy | minor | Murderbot took exception to Dr. Gurathin rummaging about in his mind and discovering that he's hacked his own governor module. This was somewhat hypocritical of Murderbot as he was in the habit of surreptitiously listening in on the scientists' private conversations. |
| slavery | minor | Leebeebee revealed that she was an indentured servant of the company. |
| soap opera | minor | Murderbot was a fan of the space opera "Sanctuary Moon", all the episodes of which he had downloaded and watched inside his mind. |