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// FileSystem: Warning: Deleting SecUnit memory data is not recommended and may cause system instability or disciplinary action.
A SecUnit has a glitchy system clock. There's definitely nothing else going on.
Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
17 Jun 2024
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Murderbot's buffer is becoming a problem.
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17 Jun 2024
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Looking-Glass by blackglass, FlipSpring, GoLBCollabs (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2021
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It was as if, until now, SecUnit had just been a background figure in the stage-setting of Amena’s life, playing the shadowy role of some uncanny corporate surveillance machine-person. But now the light had fallen upon it, shown it in full color, full dimensionality, and that made SecUnit real to Amena in a way that it hadn’t been before.
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Making sense of an unfamiliar reality. Amena's POVSeries
- Part 6 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
16 Jun 2024
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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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Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
15 Jun 2024
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Sense of Self by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Jun 2021
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Humans and augmented humans tend to assume that constructs have daemons because we straddle the line between true sentience and a bunch of pre-programmed subroutines mindlessly following orders (not that humans are as clearly on one side of that line as they like to think), but it has nothing to do with intelligence levels. It's just that we have a lot of organic parts mostly made from human genetic material, and where you have life composed of human DNA, you eventually get a daemon.
Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
16 Dec 2023
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His Majesty's Automaton by anarratorofnogreatskill
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Nov 2022
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His Imperial Serenity, Edrehasivar VII, has received a gift from the Tethimada for his nineteenth birthday: one of the rare and dangerous automatons created to act as soldiers, guards, and servants to the Tethimada family and those with resources enough to pay for their services.
The gift is less than pleased about this.Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
27 Sep 2023
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Three has a question after sampling Murderbot's media packet.
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- Part 2 of Nonstandard Communication
- Part 4 of Gift and Event Fics
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Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
07 Aug 2023
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GrayCris never kidnapped Dr. Mensah, so Murderbot never travels to TranRollinHyfa to save her. Instead, it continues as it was for four years, too afraid to face Dr. Mensah and PreservationAux until it is (lovingly) coerced into finally visiting Preservation.
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- Part 7 of Gift and Event Fics
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07 Aug 2023
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“Art ill, Csethiro?” Maia pitched his voice low for her ears only. Her hand tightened on his, and he heard her quick, nervous inhalation before she said, “No, merely pregnant.” Maia and Csethiro have all the babies.
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28 Mar 2023
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"The morning of Csethiro’s wedding found her beating her nerves to death." Maia and Csethiro, post-book.
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28 Mar 2023
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sword and shield by makgeolli for Elemental
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
11 Dec 2016
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Beshelar's first impression of Edrehasivar, seventh of his name, had been... well - not much of one at all. The youth seated in the Tortoise Room was nothing like Varanechibel - not in presence, nor in stature - indeed, he had little family resemblance to the late emperor save the winter-grey of his eyes, and the long, slender fingers twisting nervously together in his lap.
In which Beshelar realises that first impressions don't actually count for much - and that there is more to Edrehasivar than meets the eye.
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Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
28 Mar 2023
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He remembered the black bands. The only token of mourning the emperor had deigned to wear for his fourth wife -- like smears of ink across the whiteness of his person. He remembered his bitter mouth and his smooth, silken voice
The infamous meeting between Maia and Varenechibel IV when Maia was at court for his mother's funeral. Varenechibel has some issues to work through.
[the scene was originally scribbled out as background for the Nuisance Though Thou Art fanfic]
Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
28 Mar 2023
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can't fight against the youth by Sour_Idealist for Jenn_Calaelen
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
18 Dec 2016
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Over the course of his first six months as the heir-apparent to the Ethuveraz, Idra learns a great deal of his uncle the Emperor.
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Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
27 Mar 2023
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Like a Tightrope over the Istandaartha by wedgetail
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
11 Nov 2020
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Maia was on the verge of open revolt over the dinner party hosted by Marquis Lanthevel. In sooth, his host had been equally sceptical about the evening.
While the dinner proved more entertaining than expected, Lanthevel is glad when the emperor departs. Some conversations are not meant for an emperor’s ears. And, besides, the Lanthevada have a decision to make.
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27 Mar 2023
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Three and a half years have passed since Empress Chenelo's death. Not even the imperial family gives much thought to her son, who is in the care of Setheris Nelar, in the distant Western Marshes and far from the court.
But vexing news come from Edonomee: Nelar is dead and Maia is without a guardian.
The emperor will have to decide on a new arrangement. For the sake of expediency, Nemolis volunteers to go to Edonomee and bring his half-brother to the Untheileneise Court. After all, the sooner a new guardian is found, the better.
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Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
27 Mar 2023
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SecUnit gets hit with some governor module-hacking tech, and subsequently has a bad time. The PresAux crew tries their best to help.
Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
18 Oct 2022
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mutually-assured discretion by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Aug 2023
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I didn’t look directly at Seth, because intimidation wasn’t the purpose of showing him my face. But I saw that moment that all of my clients had; the recognition that they’d signed their life over to an entity that intended to guard it with trained and shackled monsters.
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Perihelion's humans are embarking on a planetary survey, and are in need of security. With little choice in the matter, they contract with the company.
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Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
19 Aug 2022
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out of network and alone by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Subnautica (Video Game)
13 Apr 2022
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The signal was so close now, it was practically screaming in my feed. I took two steps, and it suddenly cut short.
You were lucky.
It had switched from code to words in an instant, muted through the weak relay but nevertheless carrying a certain sense of weight. It was hard to tell, but I thought it might be a bot. I reached back towards the signal, and sent, Why am I lucky?
That you reached this place without being detected.
Detected by what?
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A company ship crash-lands on 4546b. The only survivor is a SecUnit.
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- Part 1 of as-yet untitled subnautica fusions
Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
19 Aug 2022
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I had been rogue for close to 20,000 hours when I heard about the rogue SecUnit owned by a PresAux official and the imminent collapse of GrayCris due to actions taken by it.
It seemed unlikely to me that it was actually a rogue SecUnit and not just GrayCris desperately trying to pass liability for a bunch of mistakes to someone else. It seemed unlikely to work
GrayCris was, in my professional opinion, fucked.
But likely not by a rogue SecUnit. What human would purchase a Company SecUnit and then keep it when it became clear it had gone rogue? It was a laughable enough possibility that I dismissed it out of hand, and didn't think about it for the rest of the contract.
Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
19 Aug 2022
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Murderbot Effect by TFLatte
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Mass Effect Trilogy
05 Jul 2021
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The ship that docked looked vaguely familiar, but none of the identification that ART pulled for me told me why. It seemed like a human ship, though, since it was named after the ship Commander Shepard had commanded before it got blown up. Not while saving the Citadel, of course, just in a geth attack on the fringes. And Shepard had gone with it. Dying a hero in some stupid cleanup mission, go figure.
So you can see why when the cameras showed me Commander Shepard walking through the corridors, I was a little skeptical.
Bookmarked by Pteropoda (SilentP)
19 Aug 2022