NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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Parameters NULL: Our Fractured State by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Mar 2021
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Your face is not SecUnit standard. There have been alterations made to your skin and hair. There is a rapid-cycling fluidity to your expressions that is like a human’s, but not. Your feed is still a strange and curious torrent of nonsense. You use security-protocol-language and human words in tandem. You are like a human begging for mercy, and like a bot requesting resources and strategic backup.
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Premise: Exit Strategy bad ending, where Murderbot gets captured by Palisade and they decide to run tests on it to figure out what makes it tick.Series
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Constants NULL: Chaotic Orbit by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Apr 2021
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Murderbot: traumatized
Asshole Research Transport: frustrated, worried, and determined to get its friend back
Combat SecUnit: vibingI am forcibly removed from Palisade lab.
It is time to embark on a team-building road trip from hell.Series
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ART had abandoned its primary function to come break me out of lab hell. That was. Confusing. I mostly dealt with it by not thinking about it. ART was ruining this strategy by showing me stored video clips of its students. I didn’t know why it was doing this.
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Travel from Preservation Alliance to Mihira System.Preparations for meeting the Perihelion's crew.
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{ART: I have an experiment in mind.
CSU: ?
ART: I’d like to run some tests on your handler inputs.}Series
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The Perihelion had been gone for nearly one hundred cycles. One day, shortly before it was due to take on a new class of students, it had abruptly left its post, sending only a notification to its crew that it would be taking an indeterminate leave of absence. And then it had vanished to parts unknown.
And then, one day, it came back.
“This is my friend. I told you it was an augmented human, but I was lying to protect its privacy. It’s actually a rogue SecUnit. I learned that it had been captured by corporates and went to go help it. I will not apologize for what I did. My friend needed me.”
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Or: ART comes home after a long and mysterious absence, and the crew meets Murderbot for the first time.Series
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Immutables NULL: Vortex Cortex by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Jul 2021
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A tour of the Pansystem University Of Mihira And New Tideland’s Mihira branch: the Machine & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Welcome back to lab hellor: things you wanted to know but were too polite to ask about where ART was born/a minor catastrophe! in the lobby/tfw you’re trying to socialize your
friendassociateirritantkilling machine but it’s not as easy as you were hoping it would be/there is always a bigger fishSeries
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Flashbacks to early days:
1) "It should have been easy for me to hack any governor modules I encountered."
2) "I can only destroy you. I want to destroy you. I want it more than anything."ART's POV while breaking SecUnit out of Lab HellTM, and CSU's POV during mental breakdown(s)
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Classes NULL: Hot Bot Summer by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Oct 2021
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All fluff all the time. We are chilling. We are consuming media. We are reading our government assigned space-FBI-agent's classified correspondences like the morning newspaper. We are going on a journey of self-discovery. We are wearing various clothes. We are having an emotion. We are chaperoning some kids on a gross planet.
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Breakpoints: Tactical Analysis by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Oct 2021
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{CSU: Let me into your systems.
ART: No.
CSU: I let you into mine! Let me jack your brain I just want a peek.
ART: Here is a suggestion: do not request access to someone’s internal processes by saying “let me jack your brain.”}
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#aka Experimental Measures 2 Electric Boogaloo #this would be rated E were it not for the fact that there is nary a genital to speak of #playing brain DJ at the killing machine club #doing it for science is starting to become a Dangerously Flimsy excuse #who permitted these two idiots to [REDACTED] this is so inadvisable #do NOT try this at home #CSU stop craving violence for 1 second challenge #highly questionable metaphors for computer science #highly questionable everything #"you trust me? (derogatory)" #"i want to kill you (affectionate)"Series
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Properties NULL: Intel Warfare by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 May 2022
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SecUnit: Being paid to be here (for once)
ART: Causing problems (personal)
Iris: Causing problems (professional)
CombatUnit: Causing problems (recreational)It’s time for a
chaotic corporate espionage missionnormal uneventful cargo run where Murderbot is forced to navigate the private, the proprietary, the professional, and the (inter)personal. If only its so-called “friends” would let it mind its damn business and watch some media in peace.~
Additional silly tags here to spare the wrangler:
#trademarks #unpalatable corporate financial jargon #weaponization of finger food #weaponization of social norms #be gay do crimes #be aro do arson #bedazzling #finger painting #and other crafts #silly acronyms #tasteful memery #fellas are you multi track drift compatible? #{synchronous combat.execute} #Let The Bots Stim #occasional mood whiplash guaranteed to sprain your emotion gland or your money back #implications™ #we can work as a team now #we are consummate professionals #we are hyper competent and only a little mentally unstable #maybe the real proprietary intel was the friendships we built along the way of doing a lot of crime
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updates dailySeries
- Part 10 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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A part of me does want to kill it. This is the part of me that recognizes it as the threat it poses, the part of me that does not trust it. I can never truly trust it. But not now, not here. Because another, sub-rational part of myself categorizes Combat as something to be protected. Something of value. A unique resource. As a rational being my capacity for rationalization is unmatched.
There is in fact a part of me, however small, that does trust it.
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Chapter 1: Not fucking
Chapter 2&3: Bot fucking
Chapter 4: Thinkin' 'bout bot fuckin'Series
- Part 11 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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No Compliance: Under Preservation by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Dec 2022
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Chilling At Preservation While Leaving Station Security On Read
Canon divergence: consequences of arriving in Preservation with no human guardian, after not being involved with the events of Fugitive Telemetry.
You (SecUnit) have a to do list:
- Media
- Avoid prosecution for flouting imported goods regulation. (you are the imported goods. you imported yourself.)
- Thwart unsanctioned surveillance. (ok so you are unsanctioned surveillance, technically. but not you, the other surveillance that definitely exists. you are not just being paranoid. there is definitely something weird going on. why does nobody ever listen to you.)
- Keep all the annoying, ungrateful humans alive.(Also there's probably a CombatUnit loose somewhere but who gives a crap about that? Station Security is who. But fuck 'em.)
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- Part 12 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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No Comment: Shut Up And Dance by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Feb 2023
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A strange noise wakes Ratthi up in the wee hours of morning/night.
(A houseguest is dancing.)
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- Part 13 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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References NULL: Logs From Project Murderbot by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jul 2023
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The humans were chattering happily, someone mentioned snacks, lah-di-dah, just another boring workday poking around a rogue SecUnit’s brain. (I wish they’d handle this with a little more gravitas. Like, my life and freedom were ending here, could you show a little respect? I know that’s too much to ask, but still.)
I didn’t know what the fuck they were about to do to me, but I bet it was going to start with reactivating my governor module and end with me wishing I was dead a thousand times over.
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Throwback to where it all began: a rampaging rogue SecUnit on the docks of TranRollinHyfa has been captured and taken in for study.Series
- Part 14 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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Artifacts NULL: Fire Festival by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Aug 2023
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Pin-Lee said she was going to a “fire festival” with Dr. Bharadwaj and would I like to come? There would be art, dance shows, music, and a play performed live, all involving pyrotechnics.
(I’d submitted a request to be added to the volunteer fire response team, but it was denied because I was currently undergoing court-mandated therapy for “gross property damage and attempted construction of an explosive weapon blah blah blah.”) (It’s a long story.) (Actually it’s not even that long of a story, I just don’t want to get into it.)
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Artifact: one of many kinds of tangible by-products produced during the development of software.Series
- Part 15 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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I actually wanted to do a good job for once on this planetary survey, so I did a ton of preparation for every possible contingency. (And to cover for my various glitches.) But my extensive preparation was a total waste of effort.
Because the exact moment I actually went wrong was several hundred cycles ago when I became accursedly acquainted with one overpowered Asshole Research Transport and one bloodthirsty Chaotic Shit Unit.
This mess was inevitable.
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The NULLverse series is a comedy. Of errors.
This is a null!AU version of Network Effect. There is more divergence from canon than initially meets the eye.
Updates weekly.Series
- Part 16 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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I actually wanted to do a good job for once on this planetary survey, so I did a ton of preparation for every possible contingency. (And to cover for my various glitches.) But my extensive preparation was a total waste of effort.
Because the exact moment I actually went wrong was several hundred cycles ago when I became accursedly acquainted with one overpowered Asshole Research Transport and one bloodthirsty Chaotic Shit Unit.
This mess was inevitable.
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The NULLverse series is a comedy. Of errors.
This is a null!AU version of Network Effect. There is more divergence from canon than initially meets the eye.
Updates weekly.
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Now with: bonus epilogueSeries
- Part 17 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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Statements NULL: Fall Out Bot by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Jun 2025
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It was only now that I’ve started to look back at some of my logs from… let’s call it when the Shit Hit The Fan. It’s pretty painful to look back on the logs of that clusterfuck, because 1. I'd been a gigantic asshole and 2. I'd had a very public physical and emotional meltdown.
I said, trying to sound lighthearted and not really succeeding, “I’d like medical clearance to go join the ground team?”
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Agenda:
1. Rogue machine intelligence coalition building
2. Avoid alien remnant (re)infection
3. Endure some excruciating conversations*
Silly tags to spare the wrangler:
#i <3 NULLverse AU my legitimately fucked up weirdo darling child #my other honor student is a hacked agriculture bot #buying a used car but the used car is your shared custody killer offspring uploaded into expensive critical infrastructure contaminated with mysterious alien protocols #while you reluctantly relationships-counsel each other in the wake of mutual murder attempts #and your new neighbors are watching all this unfold with professional interest #get treasured IDIOTSSeries
- Part 18 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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No Class: I Know What You Did Last Hot Bot Summer by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Dec 2025
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Shilllax: machine melee season is on
Shillax: we missed the first show but the second one is down in starside next tenday
Shillax: yall in or what we can see it live together
FuckSlayer: FUCK YEAH!
flesh-nugget: oh no. we are not doing this.
FuckSlayer: Why not? Looks like actual REAL fun.
flesh-nugget: ok flay please don’t take this the wrong way but we haven’t known you that long. for all we know you could be a crazy murderer. this is terrible feed safety
FuckSlayer: But I AM a crazy murderer!
Shillax: lol word*
(tfw you convince your gamer friends to bet money on you in illegal robot death matches. they don't know it's you.)
Throwback to Hot Bot Summer, all CSU all the time edition, feat: where those suspicious stacks of cash came from.
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Chapter 10: If I comp your tickets to my death match tonight will you come? 🥺
Chapter 11: Joyriding the ConsequencesSeries
- Part 19 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad