(eng) Martha Wells - The Murderbot Diaries 01 by All Systems Red
Author:All Systems Red [Red, All Systems]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
It may seem weird that Mensah was the only human to think of abandoning the habitat while we waited for the beacon to bring help, but as I said before, these werenât intrepid galactic explorers. They were people who had been doing a job and suddenly found themselves in a terrible situation.
And it had been hammered into them from the pre-trip orientation, to the waivers they had to sign for the company, to the survey packages with all the hazard information, to their on-site briefing by their SecUnit that this was an unknown, potentially dangerous region on a mostly unsurveyed planet. They werenât supposed to leave the habitat without security precautions, and we didnât even do overnight assessment trips. The idea that they might have to stuff both hoppers full of emergency supplies and run for it, and that that would be safer than their habitat, was hard to grasp.
But when Pin-Lee and Gurathin shut down HubSystem, and Volescu unpacked the satellite download that was meant for me, they grasped it pretty quick.
Bharadwaj outlined it for us on the comm while I was getting my last extra suit skin and my armor back on. âIt was meant to take control of SecUnit, and the instructions were very specific,â she finished. âOnce SecUnit was under control, it would give them access to MedSystem and SecSystem.â
I got my helmet on and opaqued it. The relief was intense, about even with finding out that the combat override module had been removed. I love you, armor, and Iâm never leaving you again.
Mensah clicked onto the comm. âPin-Lee, what about the beacon?â
âI got a go signal when I initiated launch.â Pin-Lee sounded even more exasperated than usual. âBut with HubSystem shut down, I canât get any confirmation.â
I told them over the feed that I could dispatch a drone to check on it. A good beacon launch was pretty important right now. Mensah gave me the go-ahead and I forwarded the order to one of my drones.
Our beacon was a few kilos away from our habitat site for safety, but I thought we should have been able to hear it launch. Maybe not; I had never had to launch one before.
Mensah had already got the humans organized and moving, and as soon as I had my weapons and spare drones loaded, I grabbed a couple of crates. I kept catching little fragments of conversation over the security cameras.
(âYou have to think of it as a person,â Pin-Lee said to Gurathin.
âIt is a person,â Arada insisted.)
Ratthi and Arada sprinted past me carrying medical supplies and spare power cells. I had extended our drone perimeter as far as it could go. We didnât know that whoever hit DeltFall would show up at any second, but it was a strong possibility. Gurathin had come out to check the big hopper and the little hopperâs systems, to make sure no one other than us had access and that HubSystem hadnât messed with their code. I kept an eye on him through one of the drones.
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