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Unknown System, or, New Peoples by alatarmaia4
Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Oct 2023
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I saw a post on tumblr suggesting a crossover where Murderbot meets Sam Vimes, and I couldn't not write it. Behold:
Murderbot, randomly pulled into the metropolis of Ankh-Morpork, must figure out how it got here, how to get home, and what the fuck is going on in general. Meanwhile, Sam Vimes of the city guard is hot on the trail of a suspicious-looking case at Unseen University—or at least he would be if he didn't have the baby at home to worry about...
I love TMB and Discworld so much, so I tried to make this as newbie-friendly as possible. If you're coming for the Discworld, the Murderbot stuff is supposed to be as understandable as possible, and if you don't know Discworld at all but love Murderbot, hopefully it still makes sense.
This is set after Exit Strategy but vaguely before Fugitive Telemetry; on the Discworld side, it's somewhere in between Night Watch and Going Postal.
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how murderbot met ART, adapted from the genius novels by Martha Wells
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Compilation.FeedLog SecUnit_and_Students by creatingrecklessly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Oct 2025
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Having a SecUnit aboard your teaching vessel is both more and less of an adjustment for students than might be expected.
Assorted feed messages to and about the SecUnit on Pan-System University ship Perihelion.Private feed message
SecUnit: What show were you watching during class?
Jou: i wasn’t watching anything i was taking notes
SecUnit: video_drone16_WatchingMediaInClass
Jou: i’m so sorry!! please don’t tell my professor
SecUnit: Send me the media.
Jou: NebulaOfSecretsS1-6.compressed
SecUnit: Thank you. I will not report you to your professor this time.
Jou: thank you so much!!! also let me know what you think of the show!Bookmarked by cooking_with_hailstones
23 Oct 2025
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Manual Reset by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2025
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It is dusk, during the mild early nights of the fallow season, and we— 1.0 and I— are playing Keep Away with the Mensah children when 1.0 abruptly utters, "This unit's critical components have reached their designated life expectancy," and drops like a stone.
Then it says, "WHAT THE FUCK."
Three has to hit the reset switch on a forced-obsolescence process. The switch is in an extremely inconvenient place inside Murderbot. Like, wrist-deep.
Three is feeling so normal about this. It is. It is.
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- Part 5 of Hierarchy of Needs
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21 Oct 2025
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Barish-Estranza Human HubSystem by sinemoras09
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Sep 2025
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Series of fics about Barish-Estranza SecUnits and their human HubSystem operators
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Here Are Some Useful Facts About Grief by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Oct 2025
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SecUnit Three has been free for a very short time and is not doing well. As it tries to navigate the first personal request of its life, it makes lists. The request is more emotionally catastrophic than it realized, and there is probably a very, very good reason why Murderbot initially said no…
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SecUnits don't have heart flowers. But if SecUnit is going to pass as a human, it's going to need one.
Keep Fandom Weird Prompt: Heart Flower AU
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- Part 1 of Keep Fandom Weird 2025
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Upon finding out that Peri has befriended a SecUnit, Seth is concerned for its safety. Peri attempts to explain by sharing a conversation.
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02 Oct 2025
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For me it was just someone looking at my code and my kernel operations to copy them. That was all it was. Clinical. A bit embarrassing. It was all business.
To ART, though, this was all pleasure.
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15 Sep 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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14 Sep 2025
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All the B-E Secunits from Network Effect and System Collapse live and have their Governer Modules disabled. So there are currently 8 Secunits onboard ART. Murderbot is coming to terms with the growing evidence that rogue Secunits aren't mindless killing machines.
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"So, this..." he began. Then he reached up to rub at his temples, as if to smooth away a headache. "This is supposed to convince us not to kill all your clients?"
(A ComfortUnit tells a story. It's not a horror story, because horror implies abnormal circumstances—it's just the story of one bad day.)
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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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Poetry installation: Untitled ("my friend always chooses the media") by borth
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Sep 2022
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This unlicensed installation is written in marker paint on the third stall in the leeward atrium restroom of the Landfall City Cultural Stadium (LCCS), and covers most of the stall’s interior walls. It is under consideration as a Protected Heritage Site. Viewing is currently by arrangement with the Landfall City Walking Tour.
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09 Sep 2025
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Ayda stops and blinks. That isn’t SecUnit. Why in the world had she thought it was? That’s an average-height human in a smart green suit, looking well-fed and well-rested and well-coiffed. They even have an elegant wedding tattoo on their neck, in the Delune tradition. They look, in short, nothing like SecUnit, apart from the –
Well, apart from the face.
‘Sorry,’ says Ayda, staring. ‘I mistook you for someone else.’-
Mensah accidentally makes a complicated discovery. Murderbot would rather she didn't.
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02 Sep 2025
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The Comfort Human by writerfan2013
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
09 Jul 2025
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In which a SecUnit definitely does not require support, even from its favourite human.
Dr Mensah needs Murderbot to accompany her on a diplomatic visit which is either Completely Fine or a Really Stupid Idea, depending on if you are an experienced SecUnit with the need to protect your clients, or a stupid damn human. Mistakes are made. Things happen. Other things don't happen. Maybe.
(I had a lot of fun with Murderbot's inner voice and jaded cynicism. Let me know what you think! -Sef)
Slight AU in that this doesn't connect with anything else.
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[podfic] Future Ones (Prometheus), by cooking_with_hailstones by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for cooking_with_hailstones
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Aug 2025
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Across time and space, Murderbot learns about its own legacy. A legacy that is yet to be made, that now it must fulfill.
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- Part 39 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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27 Aug 2025
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Entwined Processes by AnOcelotOfSmut, Fox (Foxen)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Oct 2025
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"It's wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do."
Six months into its new life aboard the Perihelion, Murderbot has settled into a comfortably aloof routine with its mutual administrative assistant, ART. Then a new crew member arrives and a survey mission goes catastrophically wrong, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that hits closer to home than anyone expected. As events spiral out of control, a harrowing mystery, the indifferent cruelty of the Corporation Rim and (ugh) its own inconvenient emotions all conspire to force Murderbot to reevaluate what it really wants from the universe and what it means to live in a world of bots and humans when you're neither.
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25 Aug 2025
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Between the mission failure, the mutiny, being shot and a narrow escape led by the weirdest people she's ever met, Leonide has had A DAY.
Finally back in the safety of her quarters, she just wants to relax with a drink (or three) and try and make some sense of what she's just seen and experienced.
Unbeknownst to her, the freshly rogue SecUnit assigned to guard her is also having a day.
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23 Aug 2025