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I love Murderbot so much. He shares so much in common with me regarding his personality; he hates anything to do with sex, he hates anything to do with human bodily fluids, the same as I do. He's disgusted with humans, but he still tries to help them. I wish I could be like him, have the powers that he has, to do good for those who deserve it, to kick ass to those who deserve it.
Murderbot goes to a tourist hostel to see if the murdered man possibly stayed there. He sees a bot in the lobby loading machines for drinks and snacks. He shows him the picture of the man,
".. I identified its language module, pulled it out of archive storage, loaded it, and established a feed connection. I sent it a salutation and it sent back, query?
It was asking me why I was here. I replied query: identify, and attached an image of the Dead human.
An undead human walked into the lobby, one of the hostel's supervisors. He stopped, stared at us, and said, 'is everything all right, Tellus?' ( the Bot's name is Tellus. They name themselves and hearing about it is exhausting. )
Tellus replied, 'we are speaking.'
The supervisor frowned. 'do you need any help?'
Since the bot was still unloading the cart with three of its arms, obviously he was talking about me. The bot said, 'no help needed.'
the supervisor hesitated, nodded, and then continued on down a corridor. I don't know what they think I'm going to do to their bots. Teach them to hack? Bots don't have Governor modules like constructs and it's not like the Preservation bots weren't supposedly able to do whatever they wanted."
There's so many laugh out loud moments when you're reading the Murderbot Diaries. I love this author so much.

The man who was murdered in this story was a person who helped contract labor escape from the BreharWallHan labor system.
"Putting together Target Four's story with what my library searches were turning up, BreharWallHan had a mining operation in an asteroid belt. The type of mining meant the contract labor had the ability to move around, to go from one asteroid to another, but they had no way to get anywhere else in the system, or out of it, and BreharWallHan controlled all access to supplies. But someone ( Target Four either wouldn't or couldn't Supply a name ) had started an operation where contract laborers would make their way to the edge of the asteroid belt, where a ship would slip in, pick them up, and take them away via the wormhole, to a point where the Targets aboard the Lalow would meet them and take them to a station where they would find the next step in their escape route.
'The corporate didn't notice?' Matif was fascinated but skeptical. 'you taking out so many people at one time?'
Target Four was unfazed. 'cause we're taking out their kids, dah. These people been out in those rocks so long they got kids older than me.' "

So BreharWallHan had hired assassins to board the Lalow and kill Lutran, and take back the rescuees.
" so, working theory: Lutron meets the refugees and gets them to board the module that is due to be transferred from the merchant docks to his transport waiting in the Public Docks.( the transfers were all done by bot; haulers moved the recently loaded modules to the lock and pushed them out. If it was an inert module, the cargo Bots would take it and attach it to its transport. If it was a powered module, the cargo box would place it on one of the set paths around the station where it would get a go-signal and then head toward its destination. When it arrived, another cargo bot, or the transport itself if it had the right configuration, would attach the module. ) with the refugees safe aboard the module, Lutron then goes back to his transport to make sure the module attaches correctly when it arrives and that the refugees get aboard. But it's not there, the module has been diverted to an unknown destination. Someone else is aboard that transport, and that person kills Lutran. Then that person, who somehow has hacked the PA's systems, deletes the record of Lutran's module transfer.
This scenario was the most likely one, the probability was 86%, easily. But it was impossible unless the perpetrator could 1) hack Lutran's transport, 2) hack the PortAurh surveillance cameras, and 3) hack the PortAuth transfer records.
So where was the module? It couldn't just be floating around out there. The responder would have found it by now. Wherever it had gone, it must have looked like it was headed toward a legitimate destination, so the systems that did nothing but scan and monitor all station traffic wouldn't alert on it.
It had to be attached to a ship."

Murderbot finds out that the murderer is the Port Authority bot, Balin. When murderbot wises up to how Balin has manipulated Port Authority's systems, he tries to murder Murderbot.
"I hadn't expected Balin to be able to smash through that window so fast but wow I was wrong. Falling with the shattered transparent material through the air wall and toward the transit ring floor, I jammed the projectile weapon right up against the undercarriage where Balin's lower limbs connected and fired over and over again. Then we hit the floor.
The impact knocked me off balance and I landed two meters away. SecUnits don't stun easily and I managed to hang on to the weapon, but I damaged an ankle joint and struggled to get upright. Then a giant scoop thing slammed down in front of me.
For .05 of a second I had no clue what it was, then I picked up my drone inputs. JollyBaby the cargobot had just put its hand down between me and Ballin. This whole section of the Ring was suddenly full of cargo bots. My drones picked up a dozen emergency medical Bots, general purpose bots, even Tellus from the hostel, gathered at the public entrance on the other side of the Port Authority.
They weren't sending pings, they weren't making any noise. I had JollyBaby's hard address and sent it: query?
JollyBaby sent back: Balin off network. Intruder destroyed Ballin.
For another .05 second I thought by Intruder it meant me. Before the 'Oh shit' moment could sink in, I realized what it was actually saying. At some point during the fight Balin had dropped its wall and its designation as a CombatBot was now open on the feed. To the other bots it looked like one moment Balin was there, and the next its body was occupied by the CombatBot. They thought the CombatBot had killed Ballin. I wasn't sure they were wrong."
Murderbot had met JollyBaby who was a giant cargobot inside Port Authority. He had laughed at the name JollyBaby but JollyBaby came to his rescue.

On to the next Murderbot book in the series.