So... I finished Rogue Protocol, and I have thoughts. First of all, Miki died? It was the best little robot! I think this might have been the first time someone Murderbot cared about died. I'm not completely sure if it cared about Miki, though. It was so annoyed by Miki, and then it started giving it the silent treatment after Miki told its secret to Don Abene. I guess I'll see how Murderbot's emotional state in Exit Strategy is.
Second of all, I really liked Don Abene. It seems like she values constructs and bots as real people, similarly to how most of PreservationAux from All Systems Red viewed Murderbot by the end of the book. Speaking of the Preservation crew, is Murderbot going to see Mensah again? I know it gathered data to help with her case against GrayCris, so I hope she shows up in Exit Strategy!
One final thing I found interesting was that Murderbot keeps finding people to protect. It protected PreservationAux, then after it left and went out on its own it protected Rami, Maro, and Tapan and seemed to really like them and care about them. In this book, it protected Don Abene and her crew, even though it didn't seem to like them nearly as much as its humans from the first two books. It's just funny how even though Murderbot is free to do whatever it wants now, it's still going around finding humans and keeping them from being murdered.
