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Okay. It's in stasis.

I've killed the security cams in the area.

I don't see any way around it.

To find out what's been happening,

we have to go to one of their areas on the maps that's been blanked out.

And when I say "we," I mean me.

Why you?

Because I have expertise in terraforming.

I can take samples and measurements and be in and out quickly.

It makes sense to go there, but what about safety?

I'll go. If you're going.

- Gura. - Oh, I have weapons training.

You have to monitor from the habitat.

Bharadwaj is a geochemist. If she was well, it would be useful--

I'm sorry. You should just take the SecUnit.

Absolutely not.

Oh, I see. That's why we're in the hopper.

- Because you don't trust it. - That's correct.

- Yes, but you don't trust anyone. - I trust you. I trust this team.

I just don't trust anyone or anything that comes from the Company.

And you have good reason for that.

- You do. - Yes. We love you, Gura.

Yeah. We really do, Gugu.

Can we stay on track?

I-I wanna resolve this before it comes out of stasis.

I went in and talked to it.

You did?

I wanted to draw my own conclusion.

And? Do you think we can trust it?

I feel that we can, but I think...

we have to be cautious.

It seems like it's going through something.

- SecUnits don't go through things. - I know, I know...

They kill and they maim things.

And then when they malfunction, they get melted down for material,

which is the first thing that's gonna happen to SecUnit

when we get back to Port FreeCommerce.

I'm gonna see to it personally, but until that time...

we need to stay out of its way.

I don't want it to look--

Hi. Hi.

- Bharadwaj. - What's going on?

You having a secret meeting?

- I love a secret meeting. - Oh.

- You look so much better. - I'm feeling so much better.

Our med bay is amazing,

- and the stimulants are effective too. - Yes, they are.

- Who fixed my... my suit? - Oh, yeah. That was me. I did that.

He did not do that. I did that.

- You're welcome. - I love it. Thank you. Thank you.

Yes. Oh!

- I don't... - Oh, bring it in.

- Oh, yeah. No. That still hurts. Yeah. - Oh. Oh. Oh. Sorry.

- Okay. Let's have a seat. - What's happening? What's happening?

- Does anybody have some water? - We'll get some, okay?

The missing areas on the maps. We have to go investigate.

Great. I'm in.

I guess I'll close the fucking door.

I was in my repair cubicle,

waiting for the last of my organic parts to be regrown.

I'd been in stasis all night,

and my clients had decided to go exploring without me.

Stupid fucking humans.

I hope this isn't stupid of us.

I shouldn't have let you come. You are still healing.

I'm good.

No, I'm... This is good, to get out there again.

Okay. We're coming up on it.

Scanner's acting a little funny.

Scanners are corporate garbage.

That was true. All of their equipment was garbage.

Yeah. Including me.

But you know one thing that worked?

The data mining software that let me watch them at any time.

Hey, just leave your SecUnit behind and go check out some mapping anomalies.

Even though one of you just got chewed on by a giant tooth monster.

Looks fine.

It's probably best that SecUnit didn't come along.

- Yeah. That was smart. - Yeah. Real smart.

Bharadwaj's vital signs were spiking,

and Mensah's were almost as high.

Remember, SecUnit is from the Company too,

so if it is untrustworthy...

Exactly. Yeah.

Okay. I mean...

It did save my life.

Good point.

Gurathin felt it best to leave it behind.

SecUnit, can you come see me, please?

Gurathin.

What was his fucking problem?

It was Gurathin, the augmented human,

who had the systems ability to keep me in the dark.

Stop there please, SecUnit.

Ooh. Look at him, all fancy with his augments.

If I'd wanted to sneak up on him,

I could've snapped his neck before he knew I was online.

I'd prefer it if you put your helmet down.

Now that I know you have a face, I'd love to see it.

Oh, great.

Eye contact.

I hated eye contact.

I watched through the security feed instead.

Much less creepy that way.

Please, sit.

Humans never ask you to sit with them,

so sitting isn't really a comfortable proposition.

I'm fine standing. Thank you.

I insist. Sit.

I understand Dr. Mensah and Professor Bharadwaj

- are out in the hopper. - I'm in contact with them.

They're taking all necessary precautions.

I am a necessary precaution, moron.

I noticed you have an issue with eye contact.

What a strange expression.

"Eye contact."

Like our eyes are stalks coming out of our heads

and touching other people's eyestalks.

Okay, weirdo.

Dr. Gurathin, I recommend I join the team in the hopper.

Or that they return immediately. My threat assessment module indicates that--

How is your system doing after yesterday's attack?

Efficiency is at 97% and rising.

That's not what I...

I guess I just don't understand much about SecUnits.

What's it like

to be you?

I don't know what it's like to not be me.

So I can't say what it's like.

Didn't he have anybody else to bother?

What were Pin-Lee and Arada doing?

You're really precious to me.

Life is so precious.

I want you to have everything.

I love you.

- Ugh, that was worse. - I love you.

- SecUnit. - Yes, Dr. Gurathin.

Do you know why I advised Dr. Mensah not to take you along?

'Cause you're a dick?

- No, Dr. Gurathin. - Because...

I look at you...

and I feel something's wrong.

Oh, shit.

- I think you should stay in the hopper. - What?

- Absolutely not. You need a geochemist. - I do have a degree in terraforming.

Sure, but, you know, that's terraforming.

What's wrong with terraforming?

Nothing. It's-It's just not geochemistry.

- Obviously. - So...

Bharadwaj, I need you here

in case I have to run my arse off and get this hopper in the air.

You can keep me safe by monitoring the hopper sensors.

Gurathin logged the sound footprint of one of those creatures.

If you hear one coming, let me know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Are you sure?

I'm sure, I think.

Even though the last throuple didn't go so well?

Yeah. Well, here's the thing. First off, she was crazy.

She was dysregulated.

And second off

we didn't have a contract, so everything got very chaotic.

But I, um... I already drafted one up.

You said we were in a rut, and after that thing attacked, I just...

- Life is short. - Thank you. Oh, yes!

- Thank you, thank you, thank you. - Okay.

I think this is gonna be great.

Yeah. Me too.

I'll go get him.

This is gonna be great. I'm so, so happy.

She's so happy.

I'm happy she's happy.

Gurathin knew.

He definitely knew.

While he was busy printing himself some nutrition,

I saw my chance to escape.

In Preservation Alliance, we don't have SecUnits.

Did you know that?

I couldn't stand the guy,

but his interrogation technique was very impressive.

Preservation Alliance is not in the Corporation Rim.

Most certainly is not.

The prevalent philosophy in Preservation Alliance is that...

constructs, AIs, are people.

I know. It's...

weird to think about.

I only joined

Preservation a little over six years ago.

I was friends with Dr. Mensah.

Why was he telling me this?

I don't know why I'm telling you all this.

But I do know that

in the Corporation Rim, you are considered equipment,

and you have to do what we say.

Unless it would endanger you, yes.

Like if I pulped your head between my hands.

Okay. Well, I am requiring you

to make and maintain eye contact.

There you go. That's not so bad.

It was so, so bad.

Mensah, how's it going?

All right. Hard to get a footing sometimes.

Looks like the storm is holding off.

I've got you on the drone. No hostiles detected.

Now, as far as I understand,

SecUnits are not designed to form attachments with clients.

- Is that correct? - That is correct. Yes.

There are constructs designed for such a purpose,

or the simulacrum of intimacy, correct?

Comfort Units. Yes.

"Comfort" meaning...

Sex.

They're designed for sexual relations with humans.

You were not designed for sexual relations with humans.

No.

Or emotional attachment of any kind.

And yet,

yesterday, you were quite empathic with Dr. Arada while you were helping her

accompany Professor Bharadwaj to the hopper.

Tell me, Dr. Arada, what planet are you from originally?

Do you have children? What are their names?

So, I guess my question is,

how is that possible?

I have a combat trauma module for helping clients.

By asking them questions about children?

Okay, I got it from Episode 537

of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

Stay with me, Friess.

What planet are you from?

A little place called Sanctuary Moon.

- Do you have any children? - Yeah.

Tell me their names.

I was programmed to model interpersonal relations.

It is a new feature.

- You're not new. - To say the least.

I was told that you were refurbished.

Refurbished for what?

Weapons systems or

organic cloning?

Your governor module?

I wish I could tell you, Dr. Gurathin.

But my memory was erased.

Okay. Then, here's the deal.

I'm a very cautious person, and I care very deeply about my friends.

So if you were malfunctioning in any way--

If a SecUnit was malfunctioning,

it would be extremely dangerous for everyone involved.

Including the SecUnit.

Including the SecUnit.

- I should check the perimeter. - Perimeter's fine.

He didn't go for the "perimeter" thing.

Gurathin was a hard nut.

And I could feel him starting to probe into my recent archives.

So I decided to show him something else from my feed.

Something that was going on right here in the habitat.

I am honored. Truly.

Yeah, we're... we're honored.

- Completely. Yep. - Yeah.

Human copulation.

But this is the part I skip over when I'm watching media.

I could tell Gurathin wasn't enjoying it too much either.

Dr. Gurathin?

Are you all right?

Yes.

He wouldn't be probing around my feed again anytime soon.

You don't have to look at me anymore.

I think what I was trying to say is that I care about my friends

and that if they were under any kind of, you know

danger or threat--

Of course, Dr. Gurathin.

Anything that is a threat would have to be eliminated.

In the meantime, I hope that you will be satisfied with my service.

- Wait. - Wait, what?

I just got pinged by the security feed of the hopper.

Something is happening.

Bharadwaj. Bharadwaj? Are you reading me?

Um, my... my sensors, um...

seem to be going kind of crazy.

Um, something is making the equipment glitch.

Yeah. Seems... be creating... rence.

Shit.

She was having another panic attack

but was too stubborn to turn around.

Okay.

If you can hear this, Bharadwaj

send the ship's drone ahead at a sufficient altitude to see the area.

Hello?

Dr. Mensah, this is your SecUnit.

I've detected a potential threat in the area.

I must ask you to please stop what you're doing

and return to the hopper.

SecUnit, how are you doing?

These people. Honestly.

Dr. Mensah, this is Gurathin.

I am here with SecUnit.

It's using the satellite to run comms.

That's great. Teamwork.

So beautiful. So beautiful.

Okay, I, uh, seem to be approaching visual

of the center of the map lacuna.

It's just a matter of moments.

Dr. Mensah, please turn around and return to the hopper immediately.

Yes.

C-Come back.

I have come this far. Now is no time--

Did you hear that?

Okay, fuck it. I'm leaving.

Professor Bharadwaj, what is your status?

I'm getting a vibration matching

the pattern from the first animal attack.

Repeat, I'm getting a vibration matching the pattern from the first animal attack.

Yes. C-Come back. Come... Come back now! Ayda!

Yeah... same...

Fuck.

Oh, wow. Do you see the drone feed?

What the hell could make that happen?

I don't know. I wasn't there.

Dr. Mensah's returning to the hopper.

I would like to check the perimeter.

With your permission.

Permission granted.

SecUnit.

Try to recover that memory, will you?

From the refurbish.

The data that they cleaned from your memory.

Or, you know what? Uh, I'd give it a shot myself.

- No. - No?

I mean, I'll try.

Hi.

Mensah, I just wanted to say that I, um, intend to fix the comms system

on the hopper immediately.

Also, I'm s-- I'm sorry that I insisted SecUnit not follow you on the mission.

I, uh...

I also just wanted to say I'm really happy that you're back.

Gura.

I just need to shower.

Has anyone ever seen anything like that?

Fungi can grow in circles like that.

Or at least their rhizomes break the surface in circles,

revealing a complex root structure underneath.

- It's actually really fascinating if... No? - Uh, no. No, I don't...

I don't think those creatures are connected under the surface.

And they're definitely not alive. Not anymore.

There is something beneath the terrain.

Something that drew them in, and it killed them.

- What? - Alien remnants.

- Aliens? Like from one of your shows? - No, not like from one of my shows.

Like from millions of years ago.

Sometimes, surveys find their old synthetics or power sources.

Would that explain the gaps in the survey maps?

Yes. Alien synthetics could have glitched the survey satellites.

Well, it blew our drone out of the sky.

If it is old alien stuff, then we'd be fucked.

You have to stop surveying immediately so as to not disturb them.

Yep. 'Cause they're dangerous as shit.

Or they're just so valuable,

the Company doesn't want anybody else to have a stake.

It is illegal to exploit it.

Which doesn't stop some people.

Oh, but I'm not saying us, of course.

There is another team on the other side of the planet.

DeltFall survey. We should ping them and compare notes, yes?

- Yeah. - Good. Okay, we ping. You good?

Stupid humans.

Stupid fucking humans trying their best to get killed.

And who would get the blame? Who is gonna get scrapped?

Me.

Get yourself killed on your own damn time.

DeltFall survey,

this is Mensah, head of PreservationAux.

Please respond.

DeltFall survey, this is PreservationAux survey.

Please respond.

DeltFall survey...

DeltFall survey, this is PreservationAux survey.

Please respond.

DeltFall survey, please respond.

No answer. I think their comms must be down.

We should go and check it out.

We'll take SecUnit along this time. Okay?

Sure. What could possibly go wrong?