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Ah, you want to the Murderbot Diaries. It's got both of those two things in spades.

^ This x1000. Everyone should read those! And the world needs more murderbot.

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure."

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”

“I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”

More fictional, tortured, powerful robots freed of their Asimovian restraints should opt to fuck off and watch soap operas instead of choosing to take revenge on the humans who so wronged them.

>an exoplanet research company stumbles upon ruins of an ancient alien civilization, investigates it with profit and power in mind, then accidentally releases some ancient evil that plunges galaxy into war

The Protheans warned us. Thats all I'm gonna say on the matter.

I was thinking more of the Shadows of Z'ha'dum - a planet whose name actually sounds like the name of some foreign mall. "Let's all go to Z'ha'dum after school! cheering".

Plus a strip mall with Waffle Houses and 7-11’s would be the universes best defense anyways!

twist, 30 years later the aliens tunnel up from under the concrete

Building a mall on an alien burial ground site. What could possibly go wrong.