Calibrating the Lens

You're a researcher stationed at Perimeter Alpha, a remote research outpost on the newly discovered planet HB-7742. Your team of six scientists is protected by a single SecUnit, assigned by the corporation to ensure your safety during the survey mission. All station queries flow through HubSystem, the central AI that manages everything from data analysis to status reports.

Three weeks in, you notice something odd in your morning diagnostics: communication module usage at 847% above baseline. Nobody's streaming. Nobody's running large data transfers. The planet surveys are on schedule. So what's consuming all that bandwidth?

As the station's systems engineer, you decide to investigate. Time to instrument HubSystem with OpenTelemetry and find out what's really going on.

Credits: The characters of this adventure are borrowed from the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, a brilliant series that is funny, action-packed, and surprisingly heartwarming. It follows a security unit that hacked its own governor module and now just wants to be left alone to watch media, but keeps getting pulled into human nonsense.