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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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A collection of drabbles for Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2023
1: Index / 2: Murderbot fails to flirt / 3: Aro Gurathin + PresAux friendship / 4: Murderbot encounters aromantic media / 5: Acespec Arada and Overse's early days / 6: Pin-Lee's date / 7: Murderbot and Dr. Mensah / 8: Human One's solo lodgings / 9: Rogue ComfortUnit / 10: Pin-Lee and Murderbot / 11: Miki / 12: SecUnit Protocols: construct friendship / 13: How not to be a heartbreaker / 14: Tapan's collective sends Murderbot an ask
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- Part 1 of Aspec Murderbot Diaries Drabbles
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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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top 3 SURPRISING things you didn't know about the SECUNIT who pulled you out of an INCINERATOR by FlipSpring for Vaysh
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2023
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Six years after a SecUnit saves Sekai's life, she meets a rogue unit tagging along with a pair of representatives from the University.
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- Part 8 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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I pull close to it in the feed, and say, “You were lucky.”
The rogue SecUnit reacts, physically and in the feed. It sits bolt upright, and a wave of fear ripples off of it like a [cloud of micro-debris], or like an [emergency evasive maneuver that grinds a planet’s upper atmosphere]. It’s unpleasant. It’s unfamiliar. I capture the data, store it, and start chewing on it immediately.
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ART meets Murderbot, from ART's POV
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CHAPTER TWO contains identical text to chapter one, but it is formatted differently, with interactive text. check it out! if you want.Series
- Part 3 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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No Compliance: Under Preservation by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 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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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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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.
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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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SecUnit hadn’t brought violence with it to Preservation. The violence had arrived uninvited.
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As soon as you devolved into violence, the gravity of it would do its damnedest to pull everyone and everything through the event horizon, eat up the universe until nothing was left.Series
- Part 7 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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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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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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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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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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Looking-Glass by blackglass, FlipSpring, GoLBCollabs (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2021
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It was as if, until now, SecUnit had just been a background figure in the stage-setting of Amena’s life, playing the shadowy role of some uncanny corporate surveillance machine-person. But now the light had fallen upon it, shown it in full color, full dimensionality, and that made SecUnit real to Amena in a way that it hadn’t been before.
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Making sense of an unfamiliar reality. Amena's POVSeries
- Part 6 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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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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The framework incorporates everything.
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“Hostile One” / Combat SecUnit’s POV at the end of Exit Strategy and the machinery of the RimSeries
- Part 5 of Murderbot Outside POVs
- Part 1 of Hostile Ones
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If you want to pass as human, I can build a specialized drone for you that will mimic the appearance of a daemon from a distance. With time, it may even collect enough dust from you to become something akin to a true construct animus.
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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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Months later, Tapan learns that Security Consultant Eden was a Rogue SecUnit.
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- Part 4 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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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