# G U R A T H I N.

Gurathin was born within the Corporation Rim, the most powerful region within the galaxy, with many private corporations coexisting and trading with each other, each governing their own space, with no single government to control them. The Corporation Rim is also known to run on an extreme form of capitalism in which everything, including human life and the life of social constructs like AIs, can be bought and sold. AIs are also seen as no more than equipment for humans to use as they please.

At some point early in his life, Gurathin had implants inserted that modified his neural capacities, allowing him to interface with data systems, turning him into an augmented human. He started working for the Company (a corporation that creates countless of bot/human constructs, as part of its business in offering security bonds to customers,) within data security, however, the Company quickly began taking advantage of him, getting him addicted to a number of substances for which only they possessed the formula, in order to keep him obedient, as they then provided him with the proper training so that they could promote him to a spy. 

After several years working as a spy for them, Gurathin arrived at a conference of nonaligned systems under the guise as a representative of the Free Planet Working Group. In reality, he was there to spy on the planetary admin for the non-corporation freehold polity, Preservation Alliance, namely Dr. Ayda Mensah. They assigned him with the job of acquiring sensitive information for them, that they could use to divide their adversaries, and further their own reach. However, Gurathin was sick of all of it. The lies, the addiction... And it caused him to contemplate ending his own life. However when he met with Mensah, his life changed. Through her, he understood what was possible between people of good will. He broke down, told  her everything. And she forgave him, and gave him a new chance, with her. As such, he stopped working for the Company in his early forties, moved to Preservation Alliance, and joined Mensah in her work from thereon out. The Preservation Alliance was very different from Corporation Rim, particularly in that they believed in democracy, and they believed that all sentient constructs including AIs were also people. People with the Preservation Alliance were driven more by emotions than greed, something Gurathin for a while struggled to adjust to, but tried his best.

When Mensah planned to go on an expedition with fellow scientists, Ratthi, Bharadwaj, Pin-Lee, Arada and Gurathin, and decided that they needed to make a deal with the Company to help fund the expedition, Gurathin expressed concerns about the safety of making a deal with them, due to his previous experiences and knowledge about the Company. However, Mensah insisted, as the expedition was important for the Preservation Alliance to remain economically independent, so they soon found themselves traveling to Port Freecommerce to try to outfit their expedition and get insurance from the Company. Being offered a single hub economy habitat, the group was told they needed to take a sec-unit with them; a sec-unit being a robot that provides security to whoever it is assigned to. To their great reluctance, as their philosophy was that it would essentially be slavery, they realized they had no other option if they wished to get their research done, and agreed to pay for the cheaper sec-unit (which from here on will be referred to as MB) to bring with them, as they headed to a planet at the edge of the Corporation Rim where their expedition would be held. Calling their team PreservationAux, or PresAux for short.

After settling in, Bharadwaj and Arada headed out to work, only to be attacked by an alien creature, leaving Bharadwaj severely injured, but alive, thanks to MB coming to their rescue last second, after they ignored his warnings. However, as Gurathin went to check the footage of the incident from Arada's body camera, he noticed that MB removed his helmet, and attempted to calm Arada by asking personal questions about her family, a behavior not expected of sec-units, as it is not in their programming to ask such personal questions. As such, Gurathin, struggling with trust issues from his past, immediately became suspicious of MB, fearing that he might be malfunctioning, something that in the past has often led to a sec-unit becoming hostile and dangerous.

Asking MB to check the maps in the region, MB discovered that the maps showed no signs of being tampered with, however that some spots were not syncing properly. Dr. Mensah suggested they go look at one of the affected areas, which MB advised against. As MB went into stasis for the night, however, Gurathin killed the security cameras in the area so that the group could hold a private meeting to discuss the situation further, without MB. Together, they decided that Gurathin would be assigned to monitor from the habitat, while Mensah and Bharadwaj, who had recovered in the medbay, would go check one of the blank areas found on the map. Mensah and Bharadwaj then left before MB came out of stasis.

Meanwhile, Gurathin took the opportunity to talk with MB alone once MB was awake. During their conversation, Gurathin expressed his distrust toward MB directly to him, as well as asking questions to try to get a better read on him. MBs answers did little to calm his suspicions, though ultimately, Gurathin settled on telling MB that he cares deeply about his friends and that if anyone or anything were to put them in danger or threat in any way, they would have to be eliminated, to which MB expressed his understanding.

In the middle of their conversation, MB then got alerted to a threat in the area where Mensah and Bharadwaj had headed off to, and contacted Mensah, warning her of the threat and suggesting that she should head back to the hopper, to which Gurathin agreed with. However, just as another creature emerged from the sand, about to attack Mensah, it instead charged over her, seemingly uninterested in her, as it slid down a sandy hill, towards other creatures like it, who all lie dead in a group, with some sort of strange orb in the center that exploded once the creature got close to it, killing it. As MB asked Gurathin for permission to go check the perimeter, Gurathin asked MB to try to remember why it was refurbished, before then allowing MB to go do his job.

As Bharadwaj and Mensah returned to the station, Gurathin promised Menash to fix the comms system on the hopper they traveled with immediately, and apologized to her for insisting that MB shouldn't join her on the mission, feeling guilty about the fact that she was put in a possibly dangerous situation that could have ended really badly. Holding another meeting, Gurathin concluded that something was underneath the terrain that drew the creatures in and killed them, and together, the group hypothesize that it could be alien synthetics. As it is illegal to exploit alien synthetics, they contemplate whether to stop the survey and return to the Company, however Gurathin poses that it might only be illegal because the Company doesn't want anyone else to have a stake, and that some (not themselves) might consider it worth breaking the law over. As there was indeed another survey team on the planet, called DeltFall, they decided to try to ping them to compare notes. However, no one at the DeltFall station seemed to respond.

The group then decided they should go check it out, and bring MB with them this time. Gurathin did not like the plan, however, figuring that DeltFall had sec-units of their own to protect them, and probably more than one, and if something bad did in fact happen to DeltFall, chances were it would happen to them, too.

Nevertheless, most of the group traveled toward DeltFall, with Gurathin and Bharadwaj staying behind on their own station to keep watch. When the others reached the DeltFall area, MB decided to go on alone to check the research station there, where he found the entire DeltFall team, including all but one sec-unit, killed. The one sec-unit who did live, had been taken control over by someone other than its creators. Unbeknownst to the others, MB is overpowered by it and implanted with a combat override module. Mensah, as well as Ratthi, and eventually Arada and Pin-Lee as well, come to MBs rescue after not having heard anything from him for a while. To avoid having to follow the orders of the override module that tells him to kill the survey team, MB ends up shooting himself. Refusing to leave MB behind, however, the team brings him back on the hopper, as well as picking up what appears to be a surviving DeltFall scientist, named Leebeebee, that randomly shows up, and then return to their base.

Back on the base, Bharadwaj fixed MBs damages and Gurathin plugged into MBs system to reboot him in order to remove the override, only to discover that MB was already rogue before the override was implanted. He also discovered that MB had spent most of his free time downloading television series, particularly one show called Sanctuary Moon. Bharadwaj confirmed this, however, pointed out that MB did what he could to protect their lives despite being rogue, and that therefore they should trust him, something which Gurathin disagreed with.

When MB came to again, he informed them that the HubSystem might have been compromised by an outside agent, and that they should trigger the emergency beacon, which Gurathin tried to do, however, neither him nor MB managed to reach the beacon. MB and Mensah then decided to take the hopper to set it off manually together. Gurathin meanwhile started working on analyzing the combat module override data, and rebooting the HubSystem to try to learn more about their situation. Leebeebee followed him and tried to ask him about the data he analyzed, but he quickly brushed her off and got her to leave him alone, not really trusting her either.

As Mensah and MB approached the emergency beacon in the hopper, the beacon exploded and the hopper got caught in the explosion, causing it to crash land. This caused Gurathin to lose contact with the hopper, and seeing as the emergency beacon should have been activated but wasn't, it caused him to worry something had happened to them. As Leebeebee continued to make strange queries, Gurathin started getting more suspicious of her and began asking her questions back, in the guise of small talk, but in truth interrogating her. She gave adequate responses to his questions, however, when she asked why they didn't tell her anything about what they saw, Gurathin still refused to share, at which point, Leebeebee brought out her gun and revealed she was not, in fact, a DeltFall member. She then demanded access to their HubSystem, as well as access to all the maps and information they had. When Gurathin refused to give it to her, she shot him in the knee. Leebeebee then told them that MB and Mensah was dead, the latter causing Gurathin immense pain, as he had a very close bond with her. However, MB arrived shortly after the revelation. Leebeebee immediately grabbed Gurathin and held her gun to his head, but MB blew her head up with his own gun before she could pull the trigger, which shocked everyone, especially Gurathin who realized that MB just put his life at risk by doing so, as there was a chance she'd have pulled the trigger, either intentionally or by accident.

Realizing that whoever Leebeebee was working with might be on their way to kill them, the group packs their essentials and gets in the hopper to get away from the survey station. However, the Company transport that can take them off the planet wouldn't arrive until a month later, meaning they had to survive on the planet until then. As they found a secluded place to land, Gurathin's body temperature started spiking. MB decided to go check the perimeter, giving the others a moment to contemplate whether or not to still trust MB. As Gurathin went to sit outside for a bit, Mensah joined him, expressing concern about his health. Gurathin shifted focus by asking if she had feelings for MB, which she denied. When MB suddenly returned, Ratthi hurried out of the hopper to tell him that Gurathin thought MB was going to kill them, and so, the group all decided to talk about what happened and their feelings about it. Gurathin, however, decided to go back inside the hopper to get some rest instead. 

Though just as they were about to have the talk, MB picked up the sound patterns of the creatures that attacked them before, and they all rushed inside the hopper again. After the first creature appeared, another one arrived as well soon after, and the two creatures started making love on top of the hopper. When the creatures eventually left, the team exited the hopper to investigate if there was done any damage to the hopper, only to find the ship covered in egg sacks. Suddenly they are attacked by sec-units. As they all fight back, MB manages to get the other sec-unit to hit the egg sacks, causing one of the creatures to return and attack and kill it, before taking the egg sacks with it underground. Shocked, and in increasingly poor shape from his still untreated injuries, Gurathin collapsed as a result.

Checking the video feeds, they noticed several sec-units were at the station they just left a little while ago, and they spotted an insignia that revealed they were part of a mining company called GrayCris. A human GrayCris worker spotted one of the cameras at the station and picked it up, sending a message to the PresAux team, saying this has all been a huge misunderstanding and that if they wanted to get off the planet, they needed to work together, suggesting they meet up at a rendezvous point to come to an agreement. The GrayCris also said they would leave PresAux's area, so that they could return back to it safely.

Gurathin begged them not to go back to their station, but the group seemed determined to, as Gurathin needed a medbay if he were to survive. So, after MB made sure there was no signs of the GrayCris there, they therefore headed back to their station to treat Gurathin's injuries, and it turned out he had gas gangrene, from the projectile from the gun having carried the fabric into the wound, which was now necrotizing. Gurathin refused to take painkillers when offered, due to his past with addictions, which they sympathized with. Instead, he requested to be restrained, but then he and MB got the same idea of using hard-wiring to block the central nervous system to stop the pain, seeing as Gurathin was an augmented human. Agreeing to do it, MB plugged into Gurathin to block out the pain, while Dr. Bharadwaj worked on fixing up his knee. MB then took the opportunity to poke around inside Gurathin's mind, not realizing that Gurathin was doing the same to MB, and while poking around in MBs data, Gurathin learned that MB called himself MurderBot, and he learned that MB had killed 57 members of a mining expedition he was assigned to protect, which was the reason he was refurbished.

MB suggested that it could be just an implanted memory, or that there might have been a combat override module involved, and that they couldn't know for sure he really killed those people, to which Gurathin countered that maybe he was just defective and could kill them all at any moment, to which MurderBot begrudgingly admitted was a possibility. As MB suddenly left the station, the rest of the group became reluctant about it leaving, but Gurathin thought it was for the best, as he believed he just got his suspicions about MB confirmed. They then tried to focus on figuring out who or what GrayCris was, eventually reaching the conclusion that GrayCris was looking for the alien remnant they discovered earlier, and that the only reason they were still alive, was because GrayCris intended to make them give up the location, then kill them. 

MB then returned to the group, telling them he had a plan. 

Following MBs plan, Ratthi, Bharadwaj and Arada stayed behind at the PresAux station, Mensah went to the hopper, ready to pilot it as soon as it was needed, and Gurathin and Pin-Lee headed for a good place to send up a drone, so that MB could use it as a transponder and hack into the GrayCris HubSystem remotely, launch their beacon and call for help. MB on the other hand, went to meet with GrayCris at the rendezvous point, and told them he was rouge, so trying to hack him wouldn't work. He further told them he had a plan that would solve both their problems, going on to tell them that his team was working on sabotaging their mission, and that he had already killed one of them; Gurathin. At this point, MB presented them with the unmasked, decapitated head of one of their sec-units, correctly guessing they would not recognize it without the mask and assume it was this Gurathin he spoke of. MB then offered to help them capture the rest of the PresAux team and get the information they sought, and in exchange, they would take him with them on their pickup ship, listing him as destroyed inventory. When they agreed, he told GrayCris to open a satellite link and use their HubSystem to connect to PresAux's HubSystem, and that he would fool them into leaving the connection open.

The rest of the team, overhearing all this, started worrying that MB had in fact gone rogue and was selling them out, though they reluctantly decided to trust him still, seeing no other option. Lee-Pin and Gurathin finally got the drone into the air, while the others hacked GrayCris' security code and sent it to Gurathin. As Gurathin prepared to send the command to launch the beacon, MB informed GrayCris that the PresAux team had headed over to GrayCris' beacon to trigger it manually and that they were at the launch pad. Gurathin quickly caught onto MBs true intentions, realizing that MB was trying to get GrayCris killed, as going to the launch pad when the beacon was launched would immolate them instantly.

Gurathin started uploading the command to launch the beacon, which started a countdown. GrayCris decided that MB should come with them to the launchpad, to which he reluctantly agreed, realizing he would die with them, but at least the PresAux team would be safe. As the drone Gurathin and Pin-Lee sent up unexpectedly got swallowed by a large, alien sky creature, the team lost contact with each other, and Gurathin and Pin-Lee realized they needed to go down to the GrayCris habitat to hack into the system and finish the upload that got interrupted manually. Gurathin managed to get the comms back online and the countdown continuing. Meanwhile, Mensah, believing there must be a better way that didn't involve killing the GrayCris workers, decided to fly over to the launchpad and negotiate with GrayCris. She offered to exchange information about the location of the alien remnants in exchange for MB, however GrayCris's leader decided they'd rather just torture it out of her. MB then offered to do it himself, quoting lines from one of the villains in Sanctuary Moon as he did, which one of the GrayCris members finally recognized. MB then used the moment of confusion to attack, grabbing hold of one of the human GrayCris members to prevent the other sec-units from attacking, as he tried to convince them to hack into their government modules. But one of the GrayCris workers shot the other worker dead, giving the sec-units the opportunity to fight back again. MB and Mensah then fought them off, and MB grabbed Mensah last second to jump off a cliff to avoid the explosion as the beacon launched, protecting her from the fall with his own body. As the rest of the team made their way over to Mensah and MBs location, they embraced Mensah, before going to check on MB who was lying there, severely injured, with Gurathin having a new appreciation for MB after he went through so much effort to protect them all.

Finally rescued from the planet, MB was handed over to the Company under the belief that they would fix him up. However, when they asked the Company for his location, they were told it was none of their business. The Preservation Alliance team, not about to accept that answer, brought up the fact that the Company provided resources to the team that killed DeltFall and attacked them, and that this information had been kept very quiet, but that it could very easily become public knowledge if they so decide to share it with others. While negotiating with the Company, the Company eventually revealed that they had erased MBs memories, putting the negotiations to a temporary stop. As the group headed back to their hotel for the night, they discussed how to help MB, realizing that while his memories may have been removed, they had likely not been erased, as the Company would be wanting to go through them in case there was anything useful in there. Gurathin further realized that the only way to get MB back was to retrieve his memories, which he, as an augmented human could do. However, in order to do so, he needed help from his former dealer, whom he knew now worked in data security. So, while the others worked on bringing a law suit against the Company, with permission to be given MB, Gurathin went to his former dealer's home without telling the others. After pressuring his former dealer, he was given access to the data, and so he downloaded all of MBs memories into himself. Returning to the hotel, where the others had managed to bring MB by now, Gurathin then connects to MB and gives him back his memories. After celebrations, when MB thinks everyone has fallen asleep, he attempts to leave, but Gurathin is awake, and tries to assure him that he will get used to his freedom and getting a new home and life, and offers to show him the ropes, feeling like he to some degree understands him, not only because of having seen his memories, but because he had been in a somewhat similar situation himself in the past. However, MB expresses the need to find his own path, which Gurathin respects, and lets MB leave.

• NEURAL INTERFACE. Due to his augments, Gurathin can interface with data systems, essentially giving him the power to control technology. 

• WEAPONS TRAINING AND TACTICAL PLANNING. Having worked as a spy for the Company, Gurathin has been given training in using a variety of weapons, as well as how to plan tactically.

• ANALYSIS, DECRYPTION AND MONITORING. Due to his augments, Gurathin has great skills within analysis, decryption and monitoring.