Transient Housing Block

Lobby with kiosks and a food room, along with multiple corridors. The exterior has seating areas with plant biomes that warn about planet hazards.

The Transient Housing Block on Preservation Station serves as a vital waystation for travelers and a recurring backdrop in the Murderbot Diaries, first prominently featured in Fugitive Telemetry. This utilitarian facility—with its lobby kiosks, communal food room, branching corridors, and exterior seating nestled within hazard-aware plant biomes—becomes the site of a tense murder investigation when a human is found dead in one of its modules. Murderbot leverages the block's security feeds and layout to reconstruct the crime, revealing corporate sabotage tied to Preservation's fragile independence. Across the series, it symbolizes the station's blend of hospitality and vulnerability, evolving from a simple transit hub into a flashpoint where personal secrets, political intrigue, and SecUnit autonomy collide.