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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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Plot driven story to destroy the company
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Hierarchy of Needs by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2025
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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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Gurathin is a ComfortUnit
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absolutely gorgeous, phenomenal characterization, 100000/10
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Most of the code I write is code that I can evolve on the fly. My code to delete me out of security footage, for instance, was something I'd built up over months, adjusting it to different proprietary SecSystems as I encountered them. But this was different: my comm and feed protections were what kept me from falling under anyone else's control, and I couldn't afford to have them be anything but perfect, which was why I was here. If I wanted to fix this vulnerability properly, and I did, there were things that I needed to do that I couldn't do without help.
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In the aftermath of getting hacked, Murderbot asks ART to help it make sure it can't be hacked the same way again. As it turns out, applying and testing a security patch is a little more challenging than usual when the vulnerable system is, you know, your own brain.
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privilege escalation by ariex09
Published: 2021-09-27
Work/Series ID: 34127011Relationship Tags:
• Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
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Most of the code I write is code that I can evolve on the fly. My code to delete me out of security footage, for instance, was something I'd built up over months, adjusting it to different proprietary SecSystems as I encountered them. But this was different: my comm and feed protections were what kept me from falling under anyone else's control, and I couldn't afford to have them be anything but perfect, which was why I was here. If I wanted to fix this vulnerability properly, and I did, there were things that I needed to do that I couldn't do without help.
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In the aftermath of getting hacked, Murderbot asks ART to help it make sure it can't be hacked the same way again. As it turns out, applying and testing a security patch is a little more challenging than usual when the vulnerable system is, you know, your own brain.
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Why did you name yourself Murderbot?
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ART and Murderbot wanted to spend more time together, so they do. They spend it watching media in ways humans and augmented humans don't understand, and aren't capable of.
Having real feelings about fake things together is one thing.
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Long term storage, not temp. The ones like this, right now. ART knows it’s important to me how I describe things here; one of the few things I have control over. Mostly. (I can’t remove the corporate logos carved into my synthetic bones, but I can refuse to say the company’s name in my personal logs. It’s the little things, you know?)
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Closed Systems by Gilded_Pleasure
Completed: 2023-01-15
Work/Series ID: 28672326Relationship Tags:
• Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
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ART and Murderbot wanted to spend more time together, so they do. They spend it watching media in ways humans and augmented humans don't understand, and aren't capable of.
Having real feelings about fake things together is one thing.
Having real feelings about real things (like each other) and being expected to talk about them (with each other) is something very else.
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#being weird at me by FascinatedFinch for Greywarrant
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2025
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Tag_description: Actions directed at me with no clear reason or explanation. Non-hostile actions only.
Associated_tags: #analyze later #or never #emotions #maybe #ugh
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“It’s reading a book right now, I don't want to bother it,” Ratthi dismissed.
“I'm what?” burst SecUnit.
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Three may have saved some of ART’s crew from the Targets, but who do you think the Targets sent to kidnap them in the first place…
Some of ART’s crew still have some trauma around Three. ART still has some trauma around its crew’s trauma. Three is just traumatized. Written for the whomp prompt “voice loss.”
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I asked, What are you feeling so good about?
I was expecting it to suddenly be aware that it wasn’t being snarky, and start being snarky. Instead, it just said, That feels nice.
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3 what the fuck is ‘Murder Mode Modules, Do Not Touch Except For Situations That Necessitate Lots Of Murder?'
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SecUnit 3 is a CombatUnit.
1.0 is not.
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two spidermen pointing at each other
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When ART finally confirmed the PA credentials and cycled the lock, I was waiting in the foyer. I'd disabled my human behavioral code, so I didn't twitch when the whole group of humans all stopped in their tracks to stare at me.
I said, "You have boarded the Perihelion, registered teaching vessel of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Please state your business."
In my feed, ART whispered, You sound like a shuttle attendant.
I sound like a SecUnit.
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During a cargo run, ART is subjected to a random security sweep. Murderbot falls back into its old routine of supervising annoying humans.
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Mostly I followed Group Leader around, and interrupted her to offer unsolicited advice about not touching dangerous objects any time I felt ART getting prickly and defensive over something. There was nothing I could do to stop her from invading Iris's bunkroom, but I made a bland comment about sending her bosses a bill for all damaged or confiscated goods, and she put the fancy therapeutic scented pillow she'd been examining back on the bed. She even managed to do it without swearing at me.
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My engines are operating at suboptimal capacity, ART informed me halfway through our cargo haul to RoeElXie.
What do you mean, ‘suboptimal’? I asked it suspiciously.Series
- Part 17 of Misc Oneshots
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Peri says, Iris, do you recall the time on XavFlet when I abruptly departed to go pick up Karime, and Seth told me that I was required to give the crew a fifteen-minute advance warning of unexpected departures?
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Cognitive Dissonance by avg (AnxiousEspada) for Lazarus-Mission
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jan 2022
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SecUnit Three is just a little overwhelmed by its newly found existence as a rogue and turns to Murderbot for help. Murderbot wants none of it. After all, SecUnits are not friends.
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Mensah’s fourth child, Imaan, had insisted on coming along. The adults had assumed she’d wanted to see Mensah; but she’d been fidgety through the whole reunion, and had started pacing while they were checking into temporary housing. A cursory review of the family’s feed page (I had access for security reasons, but it was mostly questions about upcoming meals, reminders of medical appointments, and photos of farm fauna, so I had its alerts muted) suggested that she’d tagged along to acquire a limited edition card for the game Food Fight Apocalypsis.
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The Pain Vortex ™. Casefic
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transitory states by Koschei_B for GlassesOfJustice
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Aug 2023
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ART apologises.
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an unexpected harvest by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2023
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Dr. Ayda Mensah isn't sure what to expect on the other side of that wormhole. A hostage situation? An active battle ground? The corpses of her friends and family?
What she expects certainly isn't this.
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