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Safety is the state of being protected from harm or other danger by ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Aug 2025
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Mensah rescues SecUnit from a remote combat override.
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Emotionally hostile refrigerator by ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Aug 2025
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I have internal temperature controls and my protective survey clothes (not armour) covered my organic skin from harmful UV rays. I am also able to adjust my eye filters to reduce the intensity of the rays and maintain my position monitoring.
The humans had not fared as well as me. -
Forging a Familiar Face by mismatchedmuses
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jul 2025
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Tapan and her family needed help to recover their research. The security consultant they hired, a shy but determined augmented human, saved not just their work, but their lives.
Months later, Tapan sees a familiar face on a documentary about constructs.
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When you saw Gurathin again, it only confirmed something that made your organic tissue itch: you don’t know everything that you want, but you know that you want him.
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Little vignettes of Murderbot's life post-Exit Strategy.
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1: Cat Tree (literal fluff) • 2: River (injury) • 3: Decor (this is where it becomes curtainfic) • 4: Speed-Based Games (playing tag with Mensah’s kids) • 5: Media Night (the whole PresAux survey team piles into mb's apartment to watch movies)
6: Recreational Explosives (a drabble) • 7: Immobilized (more literal fluff) • 8: Bag (nobody better touch Murderbot's stranger's stuff) • 9: Prickly (Pin-Lee gets Murderbot a gift)
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- Part 1 of Slivers of Existence
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[Podfic of] raw audio (bharadwaj_doc_interviews.wav) by nony, wilfriede0815
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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"I'm a SecUnit."
"Let's assume that you're speaking to an audience who doesn't know what that means."
"It means I was built to kill humans."
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Leaked excerpts from an upcoming documentary. (Audio only.)
Podfic of raw audio (bharadwaj_doc_interviews.wav) by torpidgilliver.
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tano a mano [Podfic] by blackglass, bluegeekEM, with (DevilWithABirdDress)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Mar 2025
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A podfic of tano a mano by shamoosh.
"This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.
Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
Tano: please advise" -
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This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.
Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
Tano: please advise -
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Ratthi demonstrates his own 'unfair and weird ability' to get Murderbot to talk. This is set in the very early days after Exit Strategy, while Murderbot is still settling in.
This was written for a New Tideland writing workshop.
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- Part 44 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
- Part 6 of New Tideland Writing Workshop
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Farai and Tano want their spouse back, but even though she's returned to Preservation, the Mensah they knew might be gone.
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- Part 43 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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You're Probably F***ing Dying by Benny_IsA_Dog
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Dec 2024
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After surviving the survey planet, after weeks on TranRollinHypha, he would die here, so close to home, on the floor of a random hallway. His heart would stop, and there was nothing he could do about it. No one would be able to do anything.
He was going to die.
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Ratthi has a panic attack. Murderbot helps.
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Scars and their Stories by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Oct 2024
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A tracing of each of Dr. Mensah's scars, and where they came from.
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"They’re all still idling in the uncomfortable limbo of recovery. And none of them—with the possible exception of Farai—are handling it well."
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- Part 13 of Murderbot September 2024
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Pin-Lee handles a lot of contracts for a lot of people. Secunit, however, has a knack for making even something as simple as a survey contract... interesting.
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- Part 12 of Murderbot September 2024
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Dr. Bharadwaj develops a documentary AND a friendship in the aftermath of Exit Strategy.
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- Part 3 of Murderbot September 2024
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"She really hadn’t wanted to shoot anybody and had told me she had to force herself to learn how to use the weapon. I hadn’t particularly wanted her to learn, either." - Network Effect, Chapter 2.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot September 2024
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Pin-Lee comforts Mensah after the events of Exit Strategy.
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A Pocketful of Stars by BoldlyNo for musicofthespheres
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 May 2024
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Preservation Station is a long way from the Mensah farm, but an assassination attempt tends to make anyone nervous regardless of the distance. Farai muses on safety, the kids catch fireflies, and Secunit does what it does best.
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In which the Corporation Rim uses UCC Article 9 for secured transactions, Murderbot is, legally speaking, a piece of equipment, and as good as Pin-Lee is, the PreservationAux survey couldn’t get out of a binding security agreement when they purchased a used SecUnit from the Company.
The law said even a simple, firm refusal could invalidate a repossession. But what if the firm refusal came from the collateral itself?
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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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After losing its fight against Palisade's CombatUnits, Murderbot is repaired and sent back to Dr. Mensah.