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I bask in the warm glow of knowing that I'm special to 1.0 for four straight cycles, during which I replay the memory of it holding my hand more times than I can count. (It was 2,739 times. I did count. I don't know if I should feel bad or embarrassed about that or not, but I do want to be honest.)
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- Part 2 of i am lifted by every word you say to me
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The one good thing about ART not being around was that I could ignore its instructions not to do anything stupid.
A bundle of thick cables ran from deeper within Three’s chest into what I knew were its power cells. I picked up the cable trailing out of my energy weapon, disconnected one of Three’s, and plugged mine in.
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Murderbot and ART follow a distress signal and find Three at the bottom of an abandoned mining installation.
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- Part 1 of data transfer
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30 Jun 2026
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ART is a bit of a bully on the feed. MB is having none of it.
Enormous thanks to ArtemisTheHunter and Gamebird for beta-ing and encouragement!
Inspired by this from “Receipt Delay":
"...it wasn’t going to notice something neither ART nor I did.
But no matter how many times I had responded to security updates with a polite acknowledgment, or ART had responded with a much less polite uncompressed packet of its hundreds of thousands of constant status update logs, the data stream had not stopped."- Language:
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30 Jun 2026
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5 Times Iris was a Very Supportive Sibling and 1 Time She Meddled by TacticalAscot
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jan 2026
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Just what it says on the tin: five times Iris was honestly the most supportive sibling ever (despite all the longing and the pining)... and one time she had enough, and finally decided to meddle in Peri's business.
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29 Jun 2026
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"Scenario A: We keep waiting here like dumbasses for rescue.
Likeliest outcome, 99.29% probability: I die, and then you die, and the data is wasted.
Scenario B: You try to drag my mangled body up to the surface.
Likeliest outcome, 99.87%: Your systems fail less than one quarter of the way up, and we die horribly at the same time from impact when you experience catastrophic failure.
Scenario .C: You leave me here and try to make it to the surface by yourself.
Likeliest outcome, 98.12%: Your systems fail before the halfway point, and you die on impact when you fall. I die slowly down here, alone.
[Scenario D: You salvage what you can from my body.
Likeliest outcome, 64.89%: You successfully reach the surface and deliver the data to ART and its humans. Mission casualty ratio is reduced from 100% to 50%, and the colonists are safely retrieved.]"
Yes, 1.0 bolded its preferred scenario, because it thinks I am being dumb.
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Murderbots don't eat. Three discovers a cannibalism taboo anyway.Bookmarked by maximumbeast
28 Jun 2026