Turi is a member of Perihelion's crew, a teaching and research vessel, and occasional cargo hauler. The crew's goals are also a cover for their anti-corporate activities, which are to gather information and strike out against corporations.
Biography[]
Not much is known of Turi's past. As of Network Effect They're affiliated with the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. They and the rest of the crew had received word that Barish-Estranza was turning its attention towards the Lost Colony, so they set out to reach it first. They intend to block Barish-Estranza from re-enslaving the colony and, if possible, to make new allies.
Before they can reach the colony, they're intercepted and captured (ironically) by lost colonists who'd hijacked a Barish-Estranza shuttle and were looking for a ship that could travel further. Turi and two other crewmates are given implants made of Pre-Corporation-Rim technology and alien code, much like the ones already implanted on the Lost Colonists. The unaffected members of their crew are approached by a sympathetic colonist, who smuggles them to the Lost Colony's surface in an attempted rescue.
Turi and the others are saved when Murderbot 2.0 and SecUnit 3 disable their implants and bring them back to the Perihelion. The crew then receive news of the other crewmates (soon to be rescued), and about Murderbot's capture. Once they regroup they immediately coordinate a rescue, and soon Murderbot is safe as well.
An armed ship from the Preservation Alliance arrives some days later, expecting to need to rescue the PreservationAux team. Murderbot reaches out and diffuses the situation, and Seth and Iris tell Mensah about their group's true mission, recruiting her (and her people's) help.
In System Collapse, it is noted that Turi does the accounting for ART with an hard-copy ledges, since ART has a tendency to mess with the numbers without explanation.[1] Turi is also helping Pin-Lee with creating a counter-bill for Barish-Estranza.[2]
Personality[]
Turi spends most of Network Effect offscreen. The few moments where they're onscreen, they are pushing their fellow hostages towards safety. There is also a moment where the Perihelion is enthusiastically preparing for Mensah's arrival, and it urges Turi to clean up their laundry.[3]
Physical Appearance[]
While being held captive, Turi is wearing exercise clothes, specifically loose pants and a T-shirt. They're also described as looking like 'the crew of a ship that did deep space mapping and teaching with the occasional cargo run and/or corporate colony liberation on the side, like they hadn’t expected to leave their ship and had been caught by surprise.'[4]
Turi is noted as being about as young as Amena.[5]
References[]
- ↑ According to Martyn, ART is of course capable of doing its own accounting, but it always ends up with extra numbers that no one can trace. So now Turi does it and has to keep a hardcopy ledges because otherwise ART would alter their data. No one knew if ART was making up numbers for the hell of it of ir these numbers represented actual credit balances that ART was hiding somewhere. Chapter One, System Collapse.
- ↑ The billing thing in not actually a joke; Pin-Lee and Turi, who does the accounting for ART, were preparing a counter-bill to present to Barish-Estranza after this was over. Chapter One, System Collapse.
- ↑ ART watched with me for some of the episodes but the idea of Dr. Mensah coming aboard made it weirdly excited and it had its drones clean its whole interior again and was doing things like yelling at Turi to put their laundry in the recycler. Chapter Twenty, Network Effect.
- ↑ The other two were in casual clothing, one in the loose pants and T-shirt humans wore to exercise. They didn’t look like corporate employees on the job. They looked like the crew of a ship that did deep space mapping and teaching with the occasional cargo run and/or corporate colony liberation on the side, like they hadn’t expected to leave their ship and had been caught by surprise. Chapter 14, Network effect.
- ↑ ART’s human Turi, who was young like Amena, shoved halfway to their feet and stared at SecUnit 3 as it stepped inside. Chapter Sixteen, Network Effect.