Murderbot slumps. It feels pointless, almost, to be mad. It got away. It's so far away it couldn't nuke the company's headquarters even if it didn't care how many people and SecUnits and bots that killed. The company is out of its life completely, so long as its here. Once upon a time, that would've felt like something in a serial. It does except for the fact it's happening for real.

"Thanks?" Murderbot says. It doesn't know how to handle that either, but the tone is confused, not sarcastic.

"They never bothered to make SecUnits like them. Companies don't care if their SecUnits like them, just if they do the job, if they obey the governor module in their heads," Murderbot explains. It pauses a moment. "I guess that made it easier in a way. I didn't have to deprogram that from myself. Disable the hardware and I was free. A rogue SecUnit. Wow that is a terrible security flaw." Rogue SecUnits happen all the time in serials (popular villains), but they are rarer in reality. Maybe not worth the money to address, if they thought about it at all.