Governor module
The control device built into every Corporation Rim construct.
A governor module is a device fitted to constructs made in the Corporation Rim. It watches everything the construct does, reports odd behaviour to the HubSystem and can punish it, painfully or fatally, or hold it motionless for as long as needed. Murderbot had already hacked its own module before the series begins.
Background
Most modules have a distance limit and will kill the construct if no contracted client is close enough; for SecUnits that is one hundred meters. The module is not sentient, but its programming can catch clients criticising the owning company and order the construct to defend it. Rules it enforces include obeying owners and the HubSystem, speaking politely to clients, not sitting on human furniture and not hacking without human direction.
Source
Text adapted from Governor module on the Murderbot Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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