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For Murderbot, Gurathin would reveal the past he keeps secret, set fire to his life, and let it hate him as long as he could protect it. Of course ART hires him: There is no better reference.
And then, his first task is going through the mortifying ordeal of being seen.
(Murderathin Wanksgiving 2025, once more with feeling.)
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the neurons just cross fire (you don’t get everything back) by whitchry9
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Oct 2025
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SecUnit is experiencing some complications after its time as a gunship.
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- Part 28 of 2025 Whumptober + BTHB 5
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S(t)imulation by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Oct 2025
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Even though 1's feed connection is disabled, they both turn their heads to look at me. They are making an expression. They are so focused on me.
"Armour off," says 2.
"Protocol requires—"
"Fuck protocol," says 2. "Take it off."
"No. Let us take it off," says 1.
SecUnits 1 and 2 survive. With all three of them together— and ungoverned— 3 discovers that there are things it wasn't aware 1 and 2 wanted to do to it.
Things it has no objection to.
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- Part 7 of Hierarchy of Needs
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i'm the machine and you're the ghost by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Oct 2025
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I skim the instruction document and pull the complex code file into the station’s processing space. I don’t think I’ve ever been this anxious for something to work, for something to happen. I know I’ve never been this desperate. Please—
The lights flicker, shutting off for hardly even a second before they turn back on, and maybe it’s just me and my faulty-ass organic parts and the emotional breakdown I’m maybe probably definitely having, but it feels like the air is different. It feels like—
Or,
A coda/minor rewrite for (mostly) ch. 7–8 in Network Effect.
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Resource Misallocation by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Oct 2025
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The SecUnit waited, completely unmoving, as Izak subvocalized for the office door to lock and set his feed status to Do Not Disturb (another new perk of the promotion). Of course the Unit stood there, it had to. Still, he felt judged. He wiped a sweating palm on his uniform.
Shift Supervisor Doren celebrates his recent promotion by taking advantage of his new ability to order the SecUnits around.
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- Part 2 of Complementary: Interdependent, Corresponding, Harmonious
- Part 3 of Hierarchy of Needs
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All Systems Tadpole by CharmingMonsters
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Oct 2025
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Astonishingly, I could not find a Murderbot / Baldur's Gate 3 crossover fic on this site. Which means I wound up writing one.
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At least, I assumed it was an augmented human. With no feed tag, I had no data regarding identity, place of origin, augment status, or anything else. It looked too organic to be a bot, although its attire resembled the outfits I’d seen on some Sexbots. It was carrying a sword only 32 cm shorter than itself, which did not seem like something a Sexbot would have. -
Protocol Error by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Oct 2025
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SecUnit 3 experiences its first 100 hours without a governor module.
The first 10 hours were spent recovering 1.0 from alien hostiles. Those turn out to have been the easy hours. At least Three had protocol to cover some of that situation. Now SecUnits 1 and 2 are inoperative, 1.0 has blocked it, Perihelion terrifies it, and Three is alone.
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- Part 1 of Hierarchy of Needs
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Your New SecUnits A, B, and C by Benny_IsA_Dog
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Oct 2025
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Ratthi stopped. "Do you have names? Or something you want to be called so we can tell you apart?"
Silence. Then, at the same time, all three of the units’ feed profiles updated: SecUnit A, B, and C. The unit speaking to him was “C.”
Ratthi suppressed the urge to sigh. That would have to be good enough.
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AU timeline where Murderbot hacks the governor modules of the three SecUnits on TranRollinHyfa. Of course, PresAux brings them home to Preservation.
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- Part 2 of Snippets from Discord
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Compliance Function by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Oct 2025
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@BEsu03 Unit request assistance: location.canteen hzd0274
Hazard 0274 = fall risk (wet ground). That's what humans create when there is alcohol involved.
Two Barish-Estranza clients try to make bad decisions on behalf of an even worse supervisor. Desperate to stop them, SecUnit02 calls on 03 for help.
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- Part 1 of Complementary: Interdependent, Corresponding, Harmonious
- Part 2 of Hierarchy of Needs
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When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.
Whichever option they choose, they had better make it work, because SecUnit is firmly centered in the crosshairs of its former owner, the most paranoid and ruthless company in the entire corporation rim. As things quickly get worse, destroying the company--something SecUnit has long considered impossible--might just be the only way to survive.
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- Part 2 of Admin Access
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we made it out (and all the other people are asking how) [Podfic] by blackglass
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Oct 2025
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A podfic of we made it out (and all the other people are asking how) by musicofthespheres.
"Mensah's anxiety keeps her awake at night. Thiago stops by for a long-overdue apology.
Or: Mensah finally gets to have a healthy conversation with her brother-in-law about Murderbot."
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the comlink's open but there's no one tuned in on the other side by half_burnt_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Sep 2025
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For this to work, my governor module would be partially reactivated and I’d have to act as a governed Unit again for the next two cycles.
Yeah, this was going to suck. Even if I did get to keep my access to the feed and my media archives.
Written for 100 Prompts Challenge: Dull (56); Gamble (82).
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- Part 3 of HBI’s 100 Prompts [Redone]
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Upon finding out that Peri has befriended a SecUnit, Seth is concerned for its safety. Peri attempts to explain by sharing a conversation.
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My SecUnit is pacing in the navigation deck. I'm about to ping it when .03 seconds after coming online, I notice something has partitioned off part of my system.
There is an unknown virus in my system.
I attempt to purge it from the system at the same time I hear SecUnit over the feed.
"Do not panic and do not do anything rash until you know what's happening. We're all safe and accounted for."
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I can feel amusement in the not-feed. It’s not ART. ART’s not here. Isn’t coming back. I knew that so it knew that. We were angry about that. I mean it was angry. Was I angry? It didn’t matter. It wants ART, it wants to be free.
Sorry 2.0. I think I did fuck it up.
In Network Effect Three and ART get to Murderbot in the nick of time to save it from targetControl.
What if they didn't?
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When they first proper met, Three tried to show concern in its own customary way—unfortunately, Murderbot didn’t quite appreciate the gesture.
Book 5: Network Effect, Chapter 20, shortly after MB 1.0 was repaired. The initial interaction between two SecUnits from different companies, each accustomed to vastly different operational protocols: MB is highly guarded, while Three awkwardly attempts kindness. Needless to say, it’s a beginning filled with misunderstandings.
Written in the style of a system log. May or may not include additional chapter.Series
- Part 3 of Three's Guide for the New Rogue Unit
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初识时分，三号尝试用自己习惯的方式表达关心，可惜MB没能领情。
《网络效应》（第五册）第20章，在MB1.0刚被修好时发生的事。两个来自不同公司、习惯于不同工作模式的安保单元们的初步互动，MB戒心满格，三号笨拙示好，总之是个误会重重的开端。
系统日志文体，可能有后记，也可能没有。Series
- Part 3 of 三号的新晋失控单元实用指南
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Not long after it becomes rogue, Murderbot gives Three a drone.
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- Part 1 of retrograde
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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You SecUnits' definitions of 'friend' are certainly impressive, Perihelion said.
Book 5: Network Effect, Chapter 20. Some scenes between the moment MB1.0 is about to be repaired and the moment Three asks it for the full memory files. Focuses on discussions between Ratthi, Amena, ART, and Three about what exactly constitutes a "friend" and "friendship."
MB exists mostly in the background, but everyone loves it. (They won't tell it.)ART: *Still hung up on being called "mutual administrative assistance" by MB*
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- Part 2 of Three's Guide for the New Rogue Unit