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SecUnit brings ART back to preservation, and tries to help it adjust to its new situation.
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- Part 2 of Construct ART
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Major Systems Error by Milarca, x57
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Nov 2025
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After its contract is bought by Dr. Gurathin, Murderbot finds out that its new client has reinstalled a governor module onto it — as well as something new: ComfortUnit software — and requires it for more than just security. Much, much more…
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Amena and Kanti have escaped their kidnappers, but there is still one person who needs their help before they can evacuate the station.
Self-surgery |
Unconsciousness|”Look who’s awake.”Series
- Part 14 of HermesDay's AI-Less Whumptober 2025
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Entwined Processes by AnOcelotOfSmut, Fox (Foxen)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Oct 2025
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"It's wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do."
Six months into its new life aboard the Perihelion, Murderbot has settled into a comfortably aloof routine with its mutual administrative assistant, ART. Then a new crew member arrives and a survey mission goes catastrophically wrong, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that hits closer to home than anyone expected. As events spiral out of control, a harrowing mystery, the indifferent cruelty of the Corporation Rim and (ugh) its own inconvenient emotions all conspire to force Murderbot to reevaluate what it really wants from the universe and what it means to live in a world of bots and humans when you're neither.
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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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Desire, Technically by Gamebird
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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Dr. Gurathin is a company technician who works alone on the SecUnits who have problems a cubicle can't fix. It gives him a lot of time to fuck around with them, and this time, to find out. Although perhaps not in that order.
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- Part 1 of Desire, Technically
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Ameca, Blank, and Owen travel to planet Panta to launch a rescue mission to get the Barrs, but what they find there is worse than everything they feared.
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- Part 5 of Corrupted Systems
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It's not like it'll kill you or anything.... by ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jul 2025
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ART's been doing a lot of research on construct physiology lately, and it's developed a single-minded obsession with a "new procedure" it wants to inflict on Murderbot... whether Murderbot wants it or not.
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SecUnit was rescued from its lab by the Preservation Salvage and Rehabilitation Association. Now it goes with them to other labs and frees other experiments. But something is wrong in this latest lab, and SecUnit is in for a surprise reunion.
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- Part 1 of Construct ART
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With Murderbot’s cubicle broken, the Combat SecUnit is called upon to repair the damage from their latest test match. A construct mutual maintenance interlude from Lab Hell.
Intended to be readable without prior NULLverse experience.
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[Podfic of] tuesday again by vexbatch pods (vexbatch)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jan 2025
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Audio Length: 3:03
You can get used to anything after a while, even a Combat SecUnit slamming your face into the floor hard enough to leave behind smears of blood on the tile.
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An extra moment in NULLverse lab hell
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Murderbot must infiltrate a company facility to obtain spare parts. Along the way it grapples with the terrifying responsibility of caring - for itself, for Three, and for company-owned constructs who may not be willing or able to accept change.
Sayatsugu has provided outstanding art to accompany this fic, which you can see in Chapter 4. Check out her Tumblr, too:
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/sayatsuguSeries
- Part 2 of Family Tree
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Its all just blurred lines (of code) by Justaboredbookmoth
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Sep 2024
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Murderbot acompanies ART on a mission to rescue indentured workers from a station and meteor mine belonging to Palisade. Unknown to it ART is also picking up one of PSUMNT's doubel agents. Worse than that the spy insists on dragging a rouge CombatSecUnit along with her.
Murderbot is stuck in close quarters with a Construct who has vastly different opinions about humans and personhood than it.
ART is trying to help its new crew members achive their gole and have a happy life all the while helping Murderbot with it's journey too. Results vary
The CombatSecUnit just wants to feel like itself again. It is not sure it remembers what that meanth back then (Does it even remember when and what back then was?)
The spy knows her neural augments can buy her only so much time. She is dedicated to see her plan to destroy the Company to its end and desperate to see her only friend forever free and safe of the Corporation Rim's hold.
At least between the four of them there is plenty of new media to watch in the downtime
The Company is not planing on going down without a fight. Neither is Preservation.
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give it a hand, offer it a soul by dragonyfox
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 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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120 Seconds by avg (AnxiousEspada) for every_eye_evermore
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2024
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Staying online that long and bored made the flashbacks worse. Yes, I’d come to the conclusion that any memory previous to my rebuild couldn’t be trusted. This was fine. I wasn’t mourning my old reality.
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Another Arm by every_eye_evermore for OccasionalStorytelling
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2024
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It had been 37 Barish-Estranza standard corporate cycles since I’d stepped foot into the airlock of a Barish-Estranza ship. It wasn’t the one I was originally assigned to, but the layouts and design across the fleet were identical.
I knew where to go, just like how I knew that this hallway should be well traveled. There were no humans in sight; the area of the ship must have been in partial lockdown. I’d been flagged as a potential threat.
(Or, Three comes home)
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A Study in Theft and Other Misdemeanors by two_bluecrows
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Nov 2023
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IntelUnit is one of a few constructs designed to lie, steal, and cheat its way into obtaining record profits for its owner. Still, when its latest mission has it stealing an AI seed from the Pansystem University of Mihara and New Tideland, it begins to run into a few problems.
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An Unexpected Quarter by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Nov 2023
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Murderbot is captured by the company, with no one to come to its rescue. Help comes from somewhere it doesn’t expect.
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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