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Then Pin-Lee asked, “SecUnit, who do you want as your medical proxy while you’re on missions with Perihelion and its crew?”
Um.
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what to do when your friend is a victim of organ harvesting by isilee for FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2024
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After everyone had gone over its planned outline for the documentary, SecUnit had requested Ratthi and the other’s opinions as its human test audience regarding a particular detail of corporate life it might include. The blunt, offhand way it brought the subject up already had Ratthi bracing for something particularly horrific.
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in recognition by isilee for broken_risk_assessment_module
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2023
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Volescu's first communication from SecUnit, once it had pieced together its brain again and settled into Preservation a little more, appeared in his feed inbox right as he took a sip of his morning coffee.
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Reload in progress. Please stand by.
You wake up. For a given value of waking up.
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playing favorites by isilee for cosmic-pindrops
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jan 2022
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Right, so. Amena's comparisons to human relationship milestones aside (ugh), I did in fact know that if I was going to act as security on ART's next mission, I would have to get to know its humans better. And not just by watching them through ART's secret cameras while running media in the background- I had to actually, really, talk with them. In person. Face to face.
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The whole thing took 3.7 minutes. It was impersonal, efficient, and streamlined, just the way the corporates liked it. Oh, and the new construct was screaming the whole time.
Bharadwaj is sent a packet of video files from the Corporation Rim as part of her research for her documentary. When viewing one clip in particular, SecUnit's human friends learn something new about the lives of constructs.
Bookmarked by isilee
19 Apr 2025
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Chilling and tragic and perfect. And the title's poem elevates it even further
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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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Bookmarked by isilee
09 Dec 2023
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I am obsessed with this fic... such a fascinating concept and an amazing execution.
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An ex-trust fund kid turned scientist finds himself having to dip his toes back into the seedy underbelly of the corporate underworld to make a purchase. But as he boozes and schmoozes his way through a SecUnit betting ring, will he be able to get what he came for?
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- Part 1 of bad beat
Bookmarked by isilee
13 May 2023
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Bookmarked by isilee
17 Mar 2023
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I have been going insane over this heart-rending series for the past 3 days
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After Hacking by Gamebird
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Feb 2025
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A series of short stories to the prompt: pre-canon but post-hack, Murderbot is owned and deployed by the Company. Emphasis on it facing painful, difficult choices, where it has to “choose” to obey, has to “choose” to act governed Or Else, where Murderbot has to look like it’s following callous, cruel, or profit-oriented orders, but still does what it can to reduce harm.
Please note that given the constraints of the prompt, Murderbot continues working, doesn't gain substantial allies or abilities, or make big changes in the world. Its gains are incremental and mainly self-discovery, so there's not a big, happy ending like with most of my fics. Murderbot is still learning some of the abilities it takes for granted by the time we meet it in ASR, including hacking, vocabulary, and social skills (yes, it has fewer social skills here than it does in ASR!)
These scenarios are arranged chronologically with several set within the same assignment, taking place within the first year after it hacks the governor module. I imagine these as incidents it discusses with Dr. Bharadwaj at some point post-NE, as it talks about early times when it recognized its own agency.
Thank you to horchata for helping me brainstorm!
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Bookmarked by isilee
04 Feb 2023
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Quite dark in some places and yet there is this sense of cautious hope in others that made me very emotional. Also very very perfect characterization and character voice