in the show, Preservation isn’t doing as well financially as it seems to be in the books. the show also added that Gurathin was the one who insisted on buying SecUnit. I wonder if he used his own money to purchase it?
(in the books, Mensah is the one who buys it, but Preservation doesn’t use currency, so I assume she used the government’s money, basically)
because based on what Mensah said about the status of Preservation, convincing the councilors to purchase a SecUnit would’ve been a hard sell. and Gurathin might have a stash of hard currency from his time in the Corporation Rim.
maybe he was holding onto it just in case his new home on Preservation was too good to be true. I wonder if he used his emergency savings to purchase SecUnit, letting go of his safety net and fully committing to his future with Preservation.