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There is actually a way out from between a reinforced steel bulkhead and a hard place, but you're definitely not gonna like it by Dooiney_Oie
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Aug 2021
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The middle of All Systems Red, but with a few changes to how those pesky combat override modules work, among other things :)
Now with bonus chapters!
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The humans were going to want to know what a combat override module was, what it did, how it worked, and most importantly, why it hadn't worked on me. I could answer the first three things just fine, but short of telling my already-jittery clients I was hacked ("so I'm actually one of those scary rogue units you've heard so much about, but the good news is that a combat override module can't hijack a governor module that doesn't work!"), that last thing was going to be a big problem.
Honestly, even if I did tell them exactly that, which I really didn't want to do, it was going to be a really big fucking problem.- Language:
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16 Jun 2025
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“I didn’t want to be on the platform anymore,” SecUnit said. Its voice was soft, but there was an undertone of frustration. Ratthi frowned. He could sympathize with not wanting to be stuck in one spot, and SecUnit seemed more prone to fidgeting now that it didn’t have to hide. “But I kind of forgot how to walk.”
Wait.
“What?”
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Missing scene from Chapter 8 of Exit Strategy; Murderbot may have glossed over forgetting how to walk but uncontrolled falls to the ground tend to be loud.
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16 Jun 2025
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Unauthorised Maintenance by broken_risk_assessment_module
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 May 2021
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Gurathin gets his visual augments fixed.
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16 Jun 2025
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Aren't you glad to see us? by broken_risk_assessment_module
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 May 2021
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Gurathin's family come to visit him on Preservation.
This does not go well for anyone.
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16 Jun 2025
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Murderbot vs College Students by queenbookwench for fresne
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Dec 2021
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When Murderbot decided to travel with ART and its crew, it overlooked something important. It had never lived onboard ART when ART was performing its _actual_ function.
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16 Jun 2025
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ART has been waiting to really talk with MB's human, Gurathin, and finally, on a voyage to a diplomatic summit, it manages to corner him. It wants to know what this former corporate's real intentions are, and it's going to find out.
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16 Jun 2025
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Post NE fluff. MB and ART's regularly scheduled media related bickering descends into EmotionsTM when MB uses ART's nickname in a failed attempt to poke fun.
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16 Jun 2025
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caregiver_package_human(adolescent).exe by lionofsounis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Dec 2021
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Look, I didn’t want to see Amena crying again. For one thing, it was awkward and gross, and for another thing, I guess I sort of liked her and I didn’t want her to be sad. But after we’d talked to Mensah, Amena had gone back to the bunkroom I’d claimed for her.
Which also happened to be the bunkroom I’d claimed for myself.
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16 Jun 2025
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Regroup, Recharge, Relay, Relief by VoidlingRemnata for heartbeatslows
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2024
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When the shuttle returns from the blackout zone to ART carrying their humans, Supervisor Leonide, deactivated ART-drone, and partially incapacitated SecUnit, there's still a lot to do. Namely, get one (1) injured SecUnit repaired when it absolutely does not want to be repaired anywhere near a corporate using the same medical bay.
One slightly questionable decision later to skip medsys altogether and just wait for Leonide to leave, Murderbot finds itself being looked after.
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15 Jun 2025
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Totaled Doesn't Mean Irreparable by Scarlet_Tanager
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Jan 2024
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When Murderbot gets (almost) fatally injured during a routine mission it has to deal with the emotional fallout from itself, all of its humans, one paranoid machine intelligence with enough power to make sure it never goes anywhere again, and the damage it does to one interpersonal relationship. Ugh, so many emotions.
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Ratthi has a moment to himself aboard the Perihelion. It’s been a long day.
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15 Jun 2025
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relationships of an undefined sort. by yewlojee for Rosemarycat5
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Nov 2022
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Ratthi sighed. “So, you have a relationship with this transport.”
“No!” SecUnit spat out, its tone wholly scandalized.
It could truly be exasperating sometimes. “I didn’t mean a sexual relationship.” (As if "relationship" automatically must boil down to all those florid media tropes. As if a "relationship" was only real if it met certain standards.)
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15 Jun 2025
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do you have to call it a relationship? by yewlojee
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Apr 2023
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Ratthi stops at the closed door, and sends a message. I would like to talk about relationships.
There is a pronounced pause. Is this some kind of reverse psychology shit where you are trying to get me to not talk to you actually?
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15 Jun 2025
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Terra Nova by winterhill for Measured_Words
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Dec 2017
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This is the whole sorry story of how I cracked my governor module. It’s not a great story. I fell in a hole and there was a lot of snow.
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15 Jun 2025
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Murderbot doesn't want you calling it by its real name; Murderbot doesn't want you calling it by any name. But humans name things, and Murderbot has been around a lot of humans.
Memory files from Murderbot's past.
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15 Jun 2025
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choiceless hope in grief by avg (AnxiousEspada)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Aug 2021
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SecUnits are pre-programmed to die fifty years after initial activation. Murderbot doesn’t know that its humans want to celebrate its birthday, and said humans do not expect it to suddenly shut down.
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14 Jun 2025
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[variable_affection] by avg (AnxiousEspada), flowerguts, Lillow
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Sep 2022
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"ART loved its crew. The joy and the love and perfect clarity with what it was supposed to be, what it was supposed to do. ART couldn’t understand how someone could dislike their function - how I could. Once, I had a similar clarity of understanding with my function, then I hacked my governor module and left the company for good, and I had lost it all. It was better, now, in a lot of ways. I had my humans, and ART, and our crew. But in some ways, things were worse.
I still wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do, ever. I had made one good decision, to stay with ART, a few years ago, and I had been just making the same decision over and over again. It felt kind of like cheating."A 20-some year fic in which Murderbot comes to terms with what it means to have a home (or two), a found family (or several), and just what mutual administrative assistance can entail.
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14 Jun 2025
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Ratthi knows he appears a certain way to others, and that sometimes leads to awkward assumptions.
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13 Jun 2025
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Seth gets an email from his boss regarding a new habit the university AIs appear to have learned from the Perihelion. The prying AIs he lives with (and onboard of) have their own opinions.
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- Part 1 of PUMNT Ships Go Rogue, Steal Constructs
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13 Jun 2025
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ART thinks Murderbot needs to blend in with humans better while acting as an augmented security consultant. It offers a way to do so. Just some cute fluff between the two.
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13 Jun 2025