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closing distance (NT-6478513) by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Aug 2021
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This wasn't how I'd planned things. Somehow, I'd always pictured something more orderly. Something less deadly. Obviously my escape couldn't be bloodless, not if I were to stand any chance of getting away clean, but I had thought that the casualties might stay in the single digits. One or two dead humans to screen me, and then one more when I got what I wanted.
That "when" was starting to look more like an "if."
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The following is a collection of reports drafted by NovaTero SecUnit 6478513, following the incident which resulted in the destruction of Freighter 6. The unit in question managed to evacuate only one client, Employee 86313. These reports were never submitted for review. The method employed in their acquisition, and the contents therein, are strictly confidential.
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26 Oct 2025
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NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad by FlipSpring
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Oct 2025
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With Networks VOID/Networks VITAL, NULLverse is narratively Complete. But I keep writing anyway. Cuz it's fun.
Consider this series if you like: feral shit, disaster, continuity of identity+memory, societies of people with divergent needs/wants, chaos, robot creation ethics, violence vs security, suffering, healing, bad puns.
Canon Divergence AU:
- At the end of Exit Strategy, the Combat SecUnit succeeds at capturing Murderbot
- Murderbot is subjected to Palisade's construct research lab as they try to figure out what makes a rogue tick
- The Combat SecUnit is A (Problematic) Character
- Disaster ensuesNote installment one, Parameters NULL, is heavily horror/angst (and dark comedy). References NULL is also deeply angsty.
Series has its ups and downs regarding angst, slightly-less-dark comedy, and trauma recovery themes. Plus some whack worldbuilding speculation. We like to multi track drift here. It’s crack it’s angst it’s fluff? We have the RangeTM
Some installments are skippable if u so prefer. Reading order is suggested but not strictly necessary if u are a flexible type. Mix and match if you want. Go crazy. I know I am.
Hope you have fun!
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- 416,224
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- 19
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25 Oct 2025
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Mutual Aid by nine_dandelion for genderfluid-envy
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jan 2022
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Two moments from an unconventional friendship.
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- English
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- 1,593
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- 1/1
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- 1
- Comments:
- 49
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- 415
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22 Oct 2025
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the static speaks my feed address by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 May 2021
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If ghosts were real, they would be registered as an extreme threat to clients, and the company would have given me a module on how to kill them. Whatever was in the collapsed mineshaft, there was no way it was a dead human.
But it might still be an as-yet unknown threat.
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99.99999% of the time, threats to a SecUnit's clients can be addressed with some amount of physical force, anywhere on the sliding scale from standing between two combatants to shooting the threat full of holes.
The other 0.00001%, though? There's nothing about that in any of the learning modules.
(Or: Murderbot tells a ghost story.)
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21 Oct 2025
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"Doctor Mensah left her office, going to meet up with Gurathin and Ratthi for lunch at one of the Preservation Station cafeteria modules. I’d been watching Sanctuary Moon on the couch, but the drones (and my eyes) told me she’d gotten up, so I got up to follow her. Then, for no reason, my risk assessment module hit 97% and I almost went into automatic shutdown."
Murderbot discovers that Doctor Mensah, in a misguided attempt to buy it a gift, has acquired a company cubicle. This is traumatizing, horrifying, and the maybe the worst thing that's ever happened, but Murderbot knows its place. It belongs to Mensah, and if Mensah wants to stick it in a cubicle, its going to go. Fortunately, a certain research transport shows up to make sure nobody's mistreating their SecUnit.
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20 Oct 2025
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to chart a course across the stars by CompletelyDifferent
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Aug 2023
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A role-swap AU, in which one paranoid, bitter gunship escapes its corporate owners, forges an unlikely friendship in a free-range SecUnit, and finds a crew of its own.
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- 61,165
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- 3
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18 Oct 2025
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Emotions? In My Security Consultancy Position? It's More Likely Than You Think by CompletelyDifferent for WritingWithEli
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Dec 2021
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Murderbot has been hired to collect a sensitive strange synthetic sample on behalf of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Gurathin and Ratthi are along for the ride.
Featuring: passive-aggressive music playlists, drone maintenance, raiders, small-talk avoidance, and way too much fucking sand.
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- English
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- 11,222
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 88
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- 1,112
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- 214
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- 5,023
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17 Oct 2025
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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.
(In which Murderbot remembers just how wrong that statement is.)- Language:
- English
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- 15,593
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- 1/1
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- 540
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16 Oct 2025
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13 Oct 2025
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This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?
Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?
Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.
This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.
Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.
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(When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)
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- English
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- 38,350
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 2
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- 569
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10 Oct 2025
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It's been a while since the last attempted murder/kidnapping, and life is good. Everyone is gathered for a celebration on the Mensah Family Farm.
The rogue SecUnits invent a new sport. Drs Mensah, Gurathin, and Overse talk about work on their day off.Bookmarked by Leximuth
10 Oct 2025
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I said, Three, what exactly is going on?
Three didn’t respond for 2 whole seconds, and when it did it sounded embarrassed. Dr. Bharadwaj suggested that an emergency drill might help with our boredom.
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09 Oct 2025
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When I found out surprise parties were real things humans actually did and not just made up for media, I was so upset my performance reliability dropped to 96%. It had been a bad day for me. I try to respect the humans in my life, but as a species they make it difficult.
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 270
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06 Oct 2025
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Murderbot returns to Preservation Station for a visit with its humans. It's expecting to have a nice, relaxing time watching media and catching up. It doesn't expect to be living opposite Gurathin of all people. It doesn't want to spend more time with that asshole. It knows exactly where their situationship stands and absolutely nothing needs to change. Unless...
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03 Oct 2025
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AU where Tlacey buys MB shortly after the Ganaka Pit Incident, before it has a chance to hack its governor module
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- 45,107
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- 2
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- 75
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02 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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01 Oct 2025
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Real People Hands by Skeletalcat for VoidlingRemnata
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Jan 2023
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Murderbot and Three complete a simple job fixing something on The Pressy's hull, but a mistake leads to Three getting hurt. A Secunit getting hurt is nothing new, and Three is completely fine - so why does Murderbot feel so many emotions?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,169
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 58
- Kudos:
- 328
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- 74
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- 1,413
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01 Oct 2025
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Three asks ART if it would like to watch some media, ART is delighted; Murderbot always skips certain parts that ART is deeply curious about, and who knows, maybe Three has a more favorable opinion than Murderbot does?
(As it turns out, Three comes with its own set of issues.)- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,858
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 42
- Kudos:
- 325
- Bookmarks:
- 41
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- 1,287
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28 Sep 2025
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Acts of Appreciation by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2023
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Murderbot's humans give it a present: a hand-made quilt to say "thank you" for everything it's done for them.
Murderbot has emotions in private.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,651
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 79
- Kudos:
- 515
- Bookmarks:
- 128
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24 Sep 2025
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In negotiation, a BATNA is the Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement. It is defined as the most advantageous alternative that a negotiating party can take if negotiations fail and an agreement cannot be reached.
In Exit Strategy, Dr. Mensah is abducted at the direction of GrayCris and subjected to hostile negotiation. Her BATNA is enduring the grueling grind of being under corporate control, the terrifying uncertainty of what's going to happen next, and the existential oppression of having absolutely no one on your side, all without giving up anything substantial the opposite side can use against her or her loved ones.
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- Part 41 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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24 Sep 2025