Rogue Protocol

Murderbot is the narrator and protagonist of Rogue Protocol. Murderbot is a SecUnit, or Security Unit, that has hacked its own “governor’s module.” This hacking allows Murderbot to ignore orders, while non-hacked SecUnits are compelled to follow whenever orders are issued by a human. Murderbot uses this freedom to escape control by GrayCris, the mega-corporation that runs all aspects of life in the Corporation Rim. Murderbot has self-assigned its name. This naming serves both as an effort to comprehend the things that Murderbot has done under GrayCris’s control (such as the bloody backstory it investigates in Artificial Condition) and to forestall the pain it denies feeling at being consistently viewed as nothing more than “a killing machine” (79) by humans.

To circumvent this prejudice that humans hold against SecUnits, Murderbot often pretends to be Consultant Rin, a human “security consultant.” When forced to reveal itself, particularly to Miki (who will recognize it as a SecUnit despite its external appearance, which has been modified to appear more human), it pretends to be in the fictional Consultant Rin’s employ. This persona is one that Murderbot uses in Artificial Condition (and will deploy again in

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