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In which Murderbot reviews security footage, successfully avoids one of two uncomfortable conversations, and has a breakthrough in [redacted].
This story takes place immediately after the last scene of Platform Decay.
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14 May 2026
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It was a mistake to let ART go on an unmanned cargo mission. A bored ART is a dangerous ART. Really I was lucky the worst thing it did this time was program a drone with new sensory functions that we would need to try out. For science. No other reason.
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19 Jan 2026
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New ops agents always come with a few quirks. Jazz knows how to manage the usual bad habits (arson, stealing, the urge to stab when surprised...).
Prowl’s adjustment period is less straightforward.
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- Part 2 of Corpse Makes Three 'Verse
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16 Dec 2025
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alskdjfkslsjd THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT 10/10 jazz/prowl, no notes
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hold me up in your folders by JackaLanternLope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Sep 2025
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It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.
I wanted ART to prove it to me.
I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.
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ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.
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- Part 2 of data transfer
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27 Oct 2025
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give it a hand, offer it a soul by dragonyfox
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Jun 2024
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My route has another projected 4.7 seconds. I tried so fucking hard to get to you, to outrun that fucking CSU. Unfortunately, that’s when the CSU shoots me in my power cord.
I only have enough time to send a single, panicked message to you, telling you to get the hell out of here, before I suffer an emergency shutdown.
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- Part 1 of it will come back
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26 Sep 2025
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Security Squabbles by FascinatedFinch, ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Feb 2025
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This is Murderbot's first time leading an undercover operation with ART's crew. The goal: investigate ArguScylla, a company known for renting out used SecUnits. It should be a simple, in-and-out mission. Run around and steal proprietary data while Iris runs interference. But something is weird about ArguScylla's SecSys. Really, really weird
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- Part 5 of Fey Being Very Normal About the Feed
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24 Sep 2025
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It was a partial lie, what I told Iris earlier. I am sure I would like to continue this line of testing. What I am unsure about is if SecUnit would like to.
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23 Sep 2025
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Dynamics of Mixed In/Organic Families by makeapointofhavingfun
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Aug 2025
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Martyn has a busy couple of days and thinks a lot about his child who is a computer.
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18 Sep 2025
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we're leaving the planet (and you can't come) by The_Onion
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 May 2024
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“You have a point there, Peri,” Seth was saying. “Guess it all worked out in the end, huh?”
“Yeah,” I couldn’t stop myself. “We should let it send us into danger more often, see what else happens.”/ComfortUnit returns, another fic.
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- Part 1 of super graphic ultra modern
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16 Sep 2025
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Murderbot is getting paid for its work, now, which is weird. Not bad, just weird.
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15 Sep 2025
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Sand/Glass by scheidswrites for Sequintial
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Dec 2022
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Adjusting to change isn't easy. Three does its best.
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12 Sep 2025
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Most people are aware of the fact that they have a soul prior to meeting their soulmate.
We aren’t most people.
(Part 1: A partial retelling of Artifical Condition from ART’s POV, wherein everyone’s favourite asshole research transport discovers 1. That it has a soul, and 2. That it has a soulmate. It handles this news completely rationally.
Part 2: A partial retelling of Network Effect, Murderbot POV, where it also has some uncomfortable realizations.)Bookmarked by quiet_contrary
06 Sep 2025
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minimal functionality protocol by glitterary
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Jun 2025
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At 20% functionality, I am able to perform almost all the duties that I am officially capable of as a university starship. However, my autonomy is severely constrained: I can run calculations and provide information, but any course corrections or similar adjustments need to be approved by my human crew. I lose the ability to communicate on the feed beyond delivering standardised reports. And I can’t even dedicate any parts of myself to my personal research interests or watching media.
It’s a lot like being trapped in a dark, empty box.
Six months after the events of System Collapse, ART is ordered to confine itself to a run box for a training exercise. Nobody is happy about this, least of all SecUnit.
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- Part 1 of run box quartet
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04 Sep 2025
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SecUnit and ART watch a musical theatre performance involving two human-form bots that fall in love. SecUnit thinks romance is dumb, but it's cool to see media where bots can be such good friends, the way that it and ART are good friends.
ART quietly has a panic attack.
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Heavily inspired by the musical Maybe Happy Ending
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03 Sep 2025
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6.83 hours after the incident, it is quiet on the command deck. My drones have cleaned all traces of blood and fluid from the deck and MedSystem is set to high priority in the front of my feed. And SecUnit sits in the same chair it always does. It's sunken into the cushioning, so still it could be in a shutdown, but I can of course feel that it's awake. I haven't let it out of arm's reach since last night.
We are quiet for a long time.
We have to talk about this, I say eventually.
It takes 18 seconds to respond.
We do not, it says with finality.
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24 Aug 2025
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It flinches as if you had shot it and its walls slam shut in front of you, thick enough that you know it isn't putting up a show of things. It really does want you out.
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24 Aug 2025
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“I could have just stayed in the argument lounge.”
You were not recharging there, you go into standby and become alert at the slightest disturbance. You need to recharge in a place that feels safe.
It crosses its arms, gearing up to fight me about what is very obviously a trauma response. I interrupt it.
Aside from my main processing space this is the safest location on my self.
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SecUnit is not recharging while it's staying in ART's argument lounge, so ART decides to do something about that by making it stay in its own quarters.
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- Part 7 of Carrier Signal
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16 Aug 2025
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I had been incredibly skeptical when Ratthi had sent me ‘Midnight Eclipse.’ I knew what fanfiction was, I had seen it in the more niche entertainment feeds before. Never specifically for Sanctuary Moon, but I'd assumed it existed. That didn't mean I had any actual interest in it, though. When I had first looked at them, I hadn't liked them. The quality varied too much and a lot of them weren't finished, or were really short, or really out of character. And I hated that. I really really hated that.
This one was different.
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09 Aug 2025
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I don't hate Three.
Seriously. I don't. It would be fucking stupid to hate Three.
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02 Aug 2025
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Perihelion has been acting strangely ever since it came back from its last uncrewed cargo run. And now it has all this information - lightweight armor specs, intel drone schematics, and incredibly sophisticated hacking abilities - that Tarik is damn near certain could only have come from contact with a SecUnit. Which means that Perihelion, and possibly the entire mission of PSUMNT, has been compromised.
No one aside from Tarik seems to be taking this seriously.
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26 Jul 2025