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they'll never pull the trigger by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 May 2023
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Murderbot is affected by potentially deadly malware on Preservation Station. Gurathin thinks quickly. Murderbot, afterwards, tells him what it thinks of the measures he took to stop it.
(I'm not sure how to describe this fic, but it follows my favorite formula: Murderbot gets malware that almost makes it kill someone, it is stopped just in time, and then it has some Emotions about it.)
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- Part 3 of The Unofficial Malware Trilogy
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24 Sep 2025
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Finding Your Way In an Unfriendly Universe by IHopedTheredBeStars
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Jun 2023
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I find the character of SecUnit 03, a.k.a. Three, intriguing from a storytelling perspective. It is ‘tabula rasa’ in ways that Murderbot is not and cannot be. This takes place during the little-described period of waiting at the end of Network Effect, and will almost certainly be non-canon after System Collapse comes out.
Heed the tags. Three will find its way in the end (because that is how I roll), but it has not escaped the Corporation Rim unscathed. There will be pain, fear, self-doubt, depression, and one very bad decision as Three stumbles its way out of the past.
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23 Sep 2025
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There are a lot of traditions relating to this time of year (I write, on the 21st December), when the nights are at their longest. These are to be found both across the timespan of human existence and all around the world. There’s the Winter Solstice (obviously) but also Brumalia, Saturnalia (17th-24th December), Yalda Night, Yule and the Dongzhi Festival, to name a small selection. I assume Preservation culture would have similar traditions.
I reckon that at least somewhere in The Murderbot Universe (probably the CR) there is the HallmarkSeasonalMovie™
So, it has come to this*
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19 Sep 2025
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Three tries an unusual tactic to make existence more bearable. The Perihelion and its crew intervene.
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18 Sep 2025
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SecUnit: Objective: Annoy Leonide.
SecUnit: (optional)Three: Why?
SecUnit: Because I don’t like her.
SecUnit: Because she was going to steal the secondary site colonists.
SecUnit: Because the first time we met her, she tried to hold Arada hostage.SecUnit: …And because she hasn’t seen you yet, and if you startle her it will be hilarious.
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- English
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17 Sep 2025
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Random Access Memories by fraternite for lunaTactics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2024
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An accident reactivates Muderbot’s governor module. ART fixes it. Nobody has a good time.
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- English
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17 Sep 2025
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Three likes Perihelion.
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- English
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- 4,410
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- 1/1
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17 Sep 2025
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Who Guards the Guardian? by Gamebird for Rosewind2007
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Feb 2024
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A prologue: Having finally made it to Preservation Station, Murderbot and its last living client settle in after a very long day.
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- Part 2 of The Last Client
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16 Sep 2025
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ART took .05 seconds to parse through the article that was sitting open in my feed. It did not send me an amusement sigil, because ART was not a prepubescent teenager, but its next words radiated humor.
“The subject was breached, although I was not aware that Amena had decided to inform you. I was also not aware of the chosen mode of information.”
The article in question read:
“Do You Need a Hug?: The Benefits of Deep Pressure Therapy”
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16 Sep 2025
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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape.- Language:
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- 29/?
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13 Sep 2025
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Another Time, Another Memory by parthagenon
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Aug 2025
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Gurathin’s damaged memory augment finally comes back to bite him, and possibly everyone around him.
TV-verse with some book elements, set after System Collapse.
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10 Sep 2025
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Three flexes its freedom on the open road across Preservation, and learns the basics of solo-travel when it finally checks its social feed.
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- Part 2 of Procedural Learning
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06 Sep 2025
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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31 Aug 2025
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Insubordinate Functions by musicofthespheres
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Nov 2024
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When Murderbot loses its vision in the middle of a security briefing, it must turn to its friends for help in figuring out what caused it before cascading malfunctions take it out of commission entirely. Especially when those malfunctions start causing it to lash out at the only people equipped to help it.
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With art by evrrys
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- English
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- 10/10
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30 Aug 2025
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You can’t be this stupid, ART said, which was insulting but also relieving, because it never talked to me that way during the trauma treatment. Maybe this wouldn’t turn into a BARF after all. Turn off your governor module, you idiot. It’s giving you brain worms.
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- Part 2 of sandbox environment
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29 Aug 2025
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The Clothes off Its Back by Scarlet_Tanager
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2024
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When Three's pulmonary system is compromised during a mission, Murderbot lets it borrow one of its lungs. Shenanigans ensue.
We were planning to tell ART about the lung situation right after I took a recharge cycle, I promise. But then one thing led to another and before we knew it we were standing at the airlock, ready to be deployed on our next mission.
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28 Aug 2025
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ART makes a mistake in the process of correcting issues left behind by the company. They work through it.
For the prompt: the first touch.
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- Part 1 of high on a hotwired symphony
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28 Aug 2025
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On a corporate owned mining asteroid in the depths of the Corporation Rim, a group of plucky, heroic, indentured humans have just decided to make their first move in a daring escape plan. Said first move is a deceptively simple hack, putting control of their corporate overlords' single, overworked SecUnit into their hands.
Little do they know, this murderbot is already hacked.
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27 Aug 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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26 Aug 2025
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Bots and constructs have taken over the Corporate Rim. When PreservationAux is captured sneaking into AI-controlled space, someone must stay behind with the sophisticated bot-pilot that remembers a lot less than it thinks it does, and the rogue SecUnit with more anxiety and depression than anyone knows.
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22 Aug 2025