#And how they're both immediately ride or die despite themselves (although the dying is exclusively for Other People)

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Been reading the murderbot diaries (again), so now I can't stop thinking about a rogue secunit (this particular company markets them as a Hybrid Organic-Bot (it - he calls himself Hob, yes he knows it wasn't very creative)) breaking free of corporate control and hiding away on the (currently unmanned) research transport vessel Morpheus, which is controlled by a very secret (and utterly terrifying) experimental AI that Hob nicknames Dream, and which could destroy him in less than a second if it so chose

Instead it takes Hob to whichever system he was trying to get to in exchange for Hob sharing both his stored media files and also stories of the things he got up to while he was still pretending to be a good, obedient secunit. Dream insists that it's because he's interested in Hob's unique perspective, Hob thinks it's because Dream's lonely when he doesn't have a crew aboard and Dream is so mad that he won't let Hob back aboard from whichever station they're docked at, and then later fails to make the rendezvous at another port

(he'd actually been infected with malware by Burgess, who had then taken control of Morpheus and was trying to figure out how it/Dream worked, right up until a murderously angry rogue secunit catches up to them)