Murderbot did not kill 57 clients.
According to ART's research in Artificial Condition, the Ganaka Pit incident resulted in 57 casualties, total.
Ten SecUnits deployed and an unknown number of hauler bots and other independently mobile pieces of mining equipment ran amok, crashing recklessly into anything in their paths. The number noted in Murderbot's logs was not its personal kill count. It can't be.
Maybe it controlled itself enough to attack primarily other SecUnits and equipment and didn't kill any humans. Maybe it attacked to wound. Maybe it killed one client, or two, or three, or maybe any kills it made were made in conjunction with other SecUnits and bots through the accumulation of damage. Maybe it killed all four ComfortUnits. We don't know. It doesn't know.
But it blames itself for 57 client deaths.
Because it's supposed to save them. All of them. All the time. If a human dies anywhere near it, that death is its fault for not being fast enough, smart enough, strong enough, deadly enough, good enough at its job. If it doesn't save you, in Murderbot's ruthless self-reckoning, that's the same as if it killed you itself.
Somebody needs to make that Unit lay its burden down.
