Three of Perihelion's crew are given implants made of Pre-Corporation-Rim technology and alien code, much like the ones already implanted on the Lost Colonists, and Perihelion is likewise contaminated by TargetControlSystem.

They intend to block Barish-Estranza from re-enslaving the colony and, if possible, to make new allies.īefore they can reach the colony, Perihelion is intercepted and captured (ironically) by lost colonists who'd hijacked a Barish-Estranza shuttle and were looking for weapons and transportation. Sometime later its team receives word that Barish-Estranza isturning its attention towards the Lost Colony, so they set out to reach it first. Murderbot parts ways with it at the end of Artificial Condition, and Perihelion continues on its mission. Perihelion helps Murderbot modify its appearance and plan for its next journey, and when they arrive it helps from afar. Once they're en route it reveals itself to be more sophisticated than expected, and they become friends.

It is on an information-gathering mission (posing as a ship on an automated cargo-run) when it meets Murderbot, accepting its offer to trade media for hitchhiking. Perihelion is affiliated with the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland, and it is part of an anti-corporate team that gathers information and strikes out against corporations. It is not the only one of its kind, though it is the only one that Murderbot has met. Murderbot calls it 'ART' (short for Asshole Research Transport).ĪIs like Perihelion are started by the University as 'babies' and raised in family environments in Perihelion's case, it was raised alongside Iris, who it sees as a sibling.

Perihelion’s crew keep its advanced nature a secret, at least in part because it covertly gathers intelligence about the Corporation Rim while acting as a cargo vessel. Perihelion is the most advanced bot-pilot Murderbot has ever encountered. Perihelion is a bot-piloted wormhole-capable space research and teaching vessel registered to the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland, in a system between Port FreeCommerce and RaviHyral, within the Corporation Rim. (They were bad humans.) I really missed ART.

At various points in our relationship, ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into pretending to be an augmented human security consultant, saved my clients’ lives, and had cleaned up after me when I had to murder some humans. ART’s official designation was deep space research vessel.

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