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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    A locked hab, attempted murder mystery.

    Mariss has always wanted to go on a survey. Un-terraformed worlds, alien fauna, and adventure await!

    Twenty-two knows surveys are boring, dangerous, and the fauna eat humans. Still, it dusts off its old armor, drops the stupid-human code, and goes back to being a SecUnit. After all, it isn’t going to trust bond company SecUnits with its human.

    What could go wrong?

    Definitely not potential alien remnants, ill-advised romances, and sabotage.

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    23 Apr 2026

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    Ayres is five years into his contract and has discovered Security Consultant Rin was a SecUnit.

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    20 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    Being left unobserved to just do my job was... nice.

    It was nice. This was a nice contract. I didn't think those two words could be put together in that order.

    (Or; Murderbot's latest group of clients are weird. They don't seem at all wary of the potential dangers of the planet, and they're both uncannily aware of how to navigate around SecUnit and completely heedless of the very real threat it poses. Which could mean nothing at all.)

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    20 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 63

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    Five times SecUnit's humans saw that it loved ART and one time Iris saw it too.

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    Or,

    It is common knowledge that Perihelion is an obsessive psychopath when it comes to being right, and that it is similarly obsessive over producing high-quality empirical evidence to vindicate itself (whether anyone else even cares that much or not).

    It is not common knowledge that its sister has, unfortunately, also picked up this habit.

    So when SecUnit disagrees with Iris over something and watches her turn around and leave without argument, it has no idea what is coming.

    Well, kind of.

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    12 Apr 2026

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    The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way.

    The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from.

    Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat.

    And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…

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    27 Mar 2026