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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
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Deliver us from evil by nopaintjustpain
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
26 May 2026
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My pride stings a little at being so underestimated by a species that couldn’t even outrun a particularly determined turtle if their life depended on it. Look, I’m no Sha’Carri Richardson, but I’m pretty proud of my seven-minute mile. I worked hard for it. I haven’t been able to handle myself like this since I was... well, since I left Earth.
“Y’know what? Let’s settle this once and for all. I could use an endurance test anyway. Good for my cardio.”
Dr. Bones perks up. “You’ll do a demonstration?”
“Absolutely. Give me two rest days and a warmup, then I’ll show you what the average human athlete can do.”
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AKA, Grace doesn't consider himself much of an athlete, but he's no slouch either. And he's got the physical prowess of his whole species to represent!
The xenobiology team, on the other hand, is horrified to learn what a 'persistence hunter' is.
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- Part 2 of Ave Maria
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“I don’t like surprises,” SecUnit mumbles. “Usually means something is about to eat the humans.”
“There are no humans here,” I remind it, feeling my mouth pull into a smile – and what a strange feeling that is. Why is it strange? I can’t remember. The answer hangs just out of reach and I decide I don’t care to chase it, not when my SecUnit is so much closer.
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Acceptable Mission Cost by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Nov 2022
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The planetary leader of Preservation is taken hostage by a corporation and held for interrogation. Lonely and homesick, she starts talking to the SecUnit assigned to guard her cell. When it's ordered to kill her, it can't bring itself to follow through.
An AU idea that's been floating around the discord! A bit like the end of Exit Strategy if it was at the start of the series. This version will get into some alternate Artificial Condition vibes eventually too.
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26 Jun 2026
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food [in]security, or, Monsters Are Always Hungry by OccasionalStorytelling, torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Mar 2023
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You are accustomed to a certain sense of helplessness. It is inevitable, as your designated role is to watch over those you hold within yourself. You can protect your crew from the vast, unforgiving vacuum of the universe outside of your hull, but you cannot protect them from danger that comes from within. You cannot save your SecUnit from itself.
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ART makes a troubling discovery about Murderbot and construct biology.
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Trapdoor Function by Ololon
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
29 Sep 2025
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Ratthi persuades Murderbot and Gurathin to go on a survey trip to a planet with the ominous nickname of Spider Planet. Soon, troubles with corporates and the local fauna mean that SecUnit is earning its currency cards, but nothing SecUnit can't handle - until it can't.
"I’d like to say that at least things couldn’t get any worse, but whenever someone says that in the media things inevitably do get worse and that seems to be one of the things media actually gets right. Oh right. I just remembered how this gets worse: the only person who could help me was Gurathin."
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21 Jun 2026
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Damaged Goods by that_one_kid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
26 Jul 2025
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I was such an idiot. I’d let myself relax, thinking that getting to Preservation Alliance had changed things for me. But I’d risked leaving for Dr. Mensah’s conference, and now I’d been kidnapped alongside my least favorite human. Damaged goods, called back to the Corporation Rim for repairs.
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- Part 3 of More Than Meets The Eye
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18 Jun 2026
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forgive your enemies by AllieTheBard
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Jun 2026
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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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17 Jun 2026
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"So what if you had the opportunity to kill me, then? Would you take it?"
"If I killed you, the governor module would boil me in my own fluids.”
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In the aftermath of the catastrophic equipment failure at Ganaka Pit, the company scrambled to make up for lost profits however they could—including offloading some of the damaged SecUnits at a discounted rate.
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- Part 1 of boiled off your hate
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16 Jun 2026
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i’ll close my eyes, ‘cause the world outside is going under by Noxshade
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Oct 2023
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The order is simple.
Kill everything.(The story of Ganaka Pit and the creation of a murderbot.)
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16 Jun 2026
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The Light of a Distant Sun by IHopedTheredBeStars
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Oct 2024
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The Preservation Auxilliary Survey Team and the PanSystem University of Mihira and New Tideland are teaming up for a survey of a potential colony world. Their mission: make sure there aren't any alien remnants left on it.
Dr. Bharadwaj and Murderbot both have very mixed feelings about the enterprise. She, because it's her first survey since the one she nearly died on. It, because the planet in question is Milu.
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15 Jun 2026
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Perihelion had never been upset that it could not feel being held the same way that humans could.
Until it made friends with a certain SecUnit it had never even considered experiencing that.Bookmarked by maximumbeast
14 Jun 2026
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“Perihelion!” she whispered urgently, “What’s happening to SecUnit?”
“There is no need to worry, Dr Mensah,” Perihelion replied, “SecUnit has gone into an involuntary stasis sequence.” Its voice was calm and reassuring, though there was some other emotion underneath that Mensah couldn’t quite identify.
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Murderbot is more comfortable around its favourite human than it realizes. Mensah and ART have a lot of emotions about this.
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13 Jun 2026
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Excerpted Report Logs 0909XXXX-0910XXXX by SandSunSiliceousOoze
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2026
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Report logs excerpted from B-E SecUnit003's patrol of B-E living quarters A between 2300 on 0909XXXX and 0130 on 0910XXXX.
Filed under: Three has a bad time at work.
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Enemies, closer by Abacura, Gamebird, opalescent_potato, orphan_account, Rosewind2007, theAsh0
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Dec 2025
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Keep your friends close,
and your enemies closer.—Sun Tzu, The Art of War (attrib)
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12 Jun 2026
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link to new tideland if i ever stop being afraid
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I sent ART the edited file along with a snapshot of my recent haptic sensor logs, which mostly looked like [deleted] [deleted] [deleted].
ART took a moment to process that. Your difficulty with physical touch extends beyond merely touching or being touched by humans, it surmised.
I guess, yeah. I bristled at calling it a ‘difficulty’: it wasn't hard to touch things, I just didn't like doing it. But I had a system for dealing with that, so whatever, it wasn't an issue.
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Or, ART wants to make Murderbot comfortable. (And yes, it would like to feel that for itself, too.)
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11 Jun 2026