Pesky feelings, Muderbot can't stop having them when it encounters humans. This time Murderbot is heading out to a remote station to try and collect data on why GrayCris abandoned a perfectly decent terraforming operation. Could they have been looking for, and found, exotic alien stuff and want to cover up what was never a terraforming effort in the first place?

Then Murderbot encounters a pet bot Miki, and makes a friend it doesn't want. Murderbot is also overcome with how nice the humans around Miki treat their bot, even allowing to ignore direct orders to save itself.

This was another quick fun adventure in space with Murderbot.