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(Laughable) Safety measures by MalTheMaleficar
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Sep 2025
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By the standards of CR, PSUMNT is, really, a paragon of morality. They do care about the well-being of their cutting edge AIs. They allow them a great degree of freedom that, to most CR, borders on insanity. But they're still humans in charge of a planetary system. They didn't know how it'd turn out. They have safeguards.
ART considers them rather adorable.
Or a little play at the "PSUMNT tries to edit/control ART" only really, they failed miserably ages ago.
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03 Oct 2025
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Dynamics of Mixed In/Organic Families by makeapointofhavingfun
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Aug 2025
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Martyn has a busy couple of days and thinks a lot about his child who is a computer.
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19 Sep 2025
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Murderbot needs Gurathin's help, but he's busy. Turns out he has... other friends? Besides Ratthi and Pin-Lee? That doesn't sound right.
Murderbot needs to get to the bottom of this.
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13 Sep 2025
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What remains of a family flees the Corporation Rim.
Takes place at least 20 years pre-canon.
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27 Aug 2025
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A Catastrophe, A Miracle, and a Home by Reulte for Chimaera-Writes (ChimaeraKitten)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Oct 2021
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Ayres is five years into his contract and has discovered Security Consultant Rin was a SecUnit.
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- Part 1 of Catastrophes & Miracles
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25 Aug 2025
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ART picks up a distress signal from a ship while on solo-mission with MB.
In order to save the humans stranded on an asteroid, MB must board a scouting vessel with an advanced AI Roxy. It also must pretend to be a humanoid assistant bot.ART is not happy.
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21 Aug 2025
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Old Unit, Young Unit by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Jul 2025
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I am very, very old for a SecUnit. I have outlived all the other units that came off the assembly line beside me, and many younger units as well. I have stayed alive this long by staying carefully within the lines that protocol draws around me.
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An old, jaded unit meets a young, idealistic unit, and gets a second chance at freedom.
Or: Construct Underground Railroad take 2, this time with OCs
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- Part 1 of Polaris
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11 Aug 2025
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I could tell that Eight Nought wasn't all that excited about the thought of me leaving; we'd had more "random" security drills in the last fifty cycles than we'd had in the entirety of my contract up to that point. Seriously, I could recite the protocol for dealing with raiders in my sleep by the end - if you're boarded, try overpowering them; if they're too heavily armed, try to reason with them; if they aren't interested in negotiating, remain calm, send a distress signal, and hope for rescue.
And yet, no amount of drilling actually prepared me for having a raider casually stroll onto the control deck.
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11 Aug 2025
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forgive your enemies by AllieTheBard
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Oct 2025
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This is just another job. Dr. Gurathin needs to approach Dr. Mensah, befriend her, and await further instructions. Nothing too difficult, as PresAux appears to be an easy target.
But their security consultant might make the mission significantly more complicated.
AU: Alternate timeline where PresAux meets Murderbot first.
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09 Aug 2025
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They are boarding now, as I stand some kind of guard before the door. The last of them climbs up into the vessel, and the counter that is consuming my mind ticks up. Eighty-seven. Eighty-nine.
Then I hear something new. Not only new words, but a new tone, a new feeling in the feed. This message is only to me.
«You got them out,» it says.
And then, «Your work is acknowledged.»
I want to cry. I want to rip something apart with my teeth – I want to scream loud enough to bring the habitat down. I want to cry. But I can't.
So instead I tap it back in the feed. «Negative. Your work is acknowledged.»
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This new SecUnit Murderbot's picked up has an attitude.
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27 Jul 2025
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This Machine Will Not Communicate by siriuspiggyback
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Aug 2025
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I woke up in a cubicle.
This was normal, I knew.
I couldn't remember the last time I had been in one, or the first time, or any of the times in between. This, I suspected, was deeply ab-fucking-normal. My head was aching. The organic parts of me felt like they had been scraped over with wire wool. I couldn't remember anything.
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26 Jul 2025
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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.
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26 Jul 2025
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Set between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect, Murderbot inadvertently finds itself responsible for the welfare of a house full of children.
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20 Jul 2025
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code switch by Aphelocoma_californica, DuckInOuterSpace
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jul 2025
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A pair of constructs explore a research transport’s systems and learn more about one another.
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18 Jul 2025
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Murderbot restarts aboard a passenger transport with no drones, no feed access, and no memory of how it got there. It's supposed to be running a cargo transport with ART. Why is it with Gurathin instead? And why is Gurathin acting like this is normal?
Set some time after System Collapse, and/or in the far future of the TV series.
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13 Jul 2025
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I had been incredibly skeptical when Ratthi had sent me ‘Midnight Eclipse.’ I knew what fanfiction was, I had seen it in the more niche entertainment feeds before. Never specifically for Sanctuary Moon, but I'd assumed it existed. That didn't mean I had any actual interest in it, though. When I had first looked at them, I hadn't liked them. The quality varied too much and a lot of them weren't finished, or were really short, or really out of character. And I hated that. I really really hated that.
This one was different.
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04 Jul 2025
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A Lost Colony Personal Log ~ Network Effect (Amena's POV) by ImitationGame
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Oct 2024
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Young Amena spent very intense time in Network Effect. Despite her protected upbringing, she demonstrates courage and resourcefulness. She was the only one who could bring out lots of honest thoughts and reactions from Murderbot and ART.
This is a re-telling of Network Effect from Amena's POV. (What did ART say to her in secret?)[Story completed / 10 October]
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04 Jul 2025
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As the door to his station apartment slid open, something slammed through the feed and shattered Gurathin’s firewalls.
A code package tore deep into the programming of his augments, pushed aside his reflexive attempts to block it. He stumbled into the door frame and –
There was pain. It came like a wave, crashing into him and knocking him down.
(Except it wasn’t pain, exactly. “Pain” implied it came from his body. But this came from everywhere and nowhere at once. It came from the feed–it was the feed. And it felt like the feed had been lit on fire.)
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Corporates come for Gurathin using killware designed to attack augments.
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02 Jul 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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SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
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29 Jun 2025
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Eighty-five indentured laborers are trapped with little food and no way out. Can one SecUnit help them escape through the Gate despite the obstructions and objections of its governor module?
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- Part 4 of Still on Inventory (standalone fics)
Bookmarked by Blinky the Tree Frog (blinkytreefrog)
27 Jun 2025