Ganaka Pit

Ganaka Pit is a mining installation on RaviHyral.

The installation is structured around a central hub, which is a domed area with corridors branching away. Some corridors lead to the mine pits, while others lead to living spaces, office spaces, and storage spaces attached to these latter two.

It was funded by a company based on the Corporation Rim political entity *Kalidon*.

## Incident

The **Ganaka Pit** was a mining installation that was the site of a slaughter many years ago, presumably just before Murderbot hacked it's governor module. By the time Murderbot returns the installation has been erased from current maps and was abandoned as part of a cover-up. With the lack of upkeep and infrastructure, it is beyond the range of the station's public feed. Murderbot reaches the installation by traveling through tunnels and hacking security barriers until it finds one that showed evidence of past use as a mining access, and then riding an abandoned small passenger tube on it's last programmed route. Glowing markers have been painted all over, reading 'Radiation hazard, falling rock hazard, toxic biological hazard.'

It still shows damage from the disaster. Murderbot notes that whoever had cleaned up afterwards had shut all of the sealed doors that were unlocked automatically in response to the incident. There are burn scars and a small crater impact from a firefiight on the walls of the 'security ready room'. The 'installation control center' has "Broken display surfaces were everywhere, chairs overturned, interfaces shattered on the floor, and a plastic cup still sat on a console, undisturbed, waiting for someone to pick it up again." The Security Systems recorded storage had been wiped, but presumably not by the company techs, as Murderbot was able to find it's files in the MedSystem’s storage space for non-standard procedure downloads.

The slaughter was caused when another company tried to sabotage the site with malware. The company meant to shut down the installation's hauler-bots, in order to disrupt operations so the other mining installation could get their shipment to the cargo transport first, but instead actually triggered a violent frenzy where bots and SecUnits began attacking everything in sight. The installation's ComfortUnits sacrificed themselves to stop the disaster, dying in the process.

> "There had been a code download from another mining installation for the ComfortUnits, supposedly a patch purchased from a third party ComfortUnit supplier. The ComfortUnits had all flagged it as non-standard and needing review by SecSystem and the human systems analyst, but the techs who had downloaded it ordered them to apply it. It turned out to be well-disguised malware. It hadn’t affected the ComfortUnits, but had used their feeds to jump to SecSystem and infect it. SecSystem had infected the SecUnits, bots, and drones, and everything capable of independent motion in the installation had lost its mind." Artificial Condition, Chapter 6.
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The ComfortUnits theorised that taking SecSystem back to factory default via its manual interface was their best option. One unit tried to decoy SecUnit attention away from the others. One heard screams from the control center and diverted there to try to save the humans trapped inside. One had stayed at the entrance to a corridor to try to buy time to reach SecSystem. One reported reaching SecSystem, then nothing.