Probably the most heartwarming of the Murderbot Diaries so far. Murderbot's friends are all together in one place, which is a security nightmare. Gets to work on some deep lore of the Murderbot world. More abandoned space stations and bloody aftermaths, in addition to the new dim subterranean passages. The duplicate Murderbot killware/personality kind of reminded me of something that would happen in Futurama. I kind of thought it would turn out that ART was actually insane, and that its crew would be either long gone or imagined. When it turns out they're pretty much what ART has said about them, I was a little surprised, maybe even disappointed? I wasn't really disappointed though, because the plot with ART's crew really is the more heartwarming and optimistic choice. The lost colony kind of reminds me of the doomed city of Lud in the Dark Tower books. I'd like to see how Murderbot would get along with Blaine the Mono.