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Ayda Mensah wanted to go on a simple planetary survey mission. Things have not gone according to plan.
First, she aborted the mission months early. Second, she purchased a SecUnit with all of her (as well as her family's) life savings. Third, she’s been sued about six or seven different times. (She might have to ask Pin-Lee to come up with an itemized list.)
Oh, and fourth: She’s already lost SecUnit a day after taking custody of it.
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Or: Dr. Mensah's perspective from Chapter 8 of All Systems Red through Exit Strategy.
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- Part 5 of No Easy Distance
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
24 Sep 2025
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“I’m sorry, did you say eleven years old?” Ratthi asked, because humans can’t play back bits of conversations that they didn’t hear and are always asking each other to repeat things, much to the annoyance of any contracted SecUnits being forced to listen in and record everything they say to be sold for advertising data.
“Yes,” Gurathin confirmed, and then everyone was staring at me and looking all shocked and sad and whatever.
“Constructs don’t age the same way humans do,” I reminded them, before anyone could start thinking anything stupid like oh no, Murderbot is just a little kid and little kids shouldn’t be doing security and eleven year olds shouldn’t have guns in their arms. "Eleven is old for a SecUnit. Most of my inorganics are already past warranty.”
Except, because I’m an idiot, that didn’t make it better. It actually made it worse, because now even Dr. Mensah was making a concerned face at me.Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
23 Sep 2025
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i too am experiencing an emotion reading this
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While visiting Preservation on a new contract with some of her family, Tapan notices a familiar face.
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For some reason, the humans had started telling me about shows they thought I should watch.
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(Or, the Preservation Station squad decides that recommending new serials for Murderbot is a Murderbot-compatible love language. The results are mixed.)
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At the start of their senior year, Ransom is dating March and Holster is okay. Of course he is.
Except when he's not.(A Holsom fic originally posted to tumblr that has a happy ending. Promise.)
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- Part 4 of Check Please Tumblr Fics
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
22 Apr 2025
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I was talking about this fic to someone the other day and remembered how good it was and I'm so glad it's still here for me to reread! Drilling down into the angsty nuance of comedy relief side characters my beloved <3