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Bharadwaj's injury in the field is a reality check to Ayda in more ways than one. The survey planet is not as safe as its idyllic landscapes would appear.
She can't try to forget PreservationAux's rental SecUnit anymore either, or ignore how human it actually is.
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Or: Dr. Mensah's POV during chapters one and two of All Systems Red.
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- Part 2 of No Easy Distance
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10 May 2025
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Dr. Mensah gets outclassed by the company in her attempt to get PreservationAux out of the standard rental of a company SecUnit. The live demonstration isn't as intimidating to her as the company executives think, however.
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Or: Dr. Mensah "meets" Murderbot for the first time.
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- Part 1 of No Easy Distance
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10 May 2025
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For some reason, the humans had started telling me about shows they thought I should watch.
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(Or, the Preservation Station squad decides that recommending new serials for Murderbot is a Murderbot-compatible love language. The results are mixed.)
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10 May 2025
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Gurathin had put off watching Bharadwaj's documentary, but when he finds it playing on the transit ring, he can't look away.
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10 May 2025
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3 what the fuck is ‘Murder Mode Modules, Do Not Touch Except For Situations That Necessitate Lots Of Murder?'
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SecUnit 3 is a CombatUnit.
1.0 is not.
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10 May 2025
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“I’m sorry, did you say eleven years old?” Ratthi asked, because humans can’t play back bits of conversations that they didn’t hear and are always asking each other to repeat things, much to the annoyance of any contracted SecUnits being forced to listen in and record everything they say to be sold for advertising data.
“Yes,” Gurathin confirmed, and then everyone was staring at me and looking all shocked and sad and whatever.
“Constructs don’t age the same way humans do,” I reminded them, before anyone could start thinking anything stupid like oh no, Murderbot is just a little kid and little kids shouldn’t be doing security and eleven year olds shouldn’t have guns in their arms. "Eleven is old for a SecUnit. Most of my inorganics are already past warranty.”
Except, because I’m an idiot, that didn’t make it better. It actually made it worse, because now even Dr. Mensah was making a concerned face at me.Bookmarked by munchmulch
10 May 2025
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Late-night human behavior discussions with your favorite deadly weapon.
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10 May 2025
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This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?
Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?
Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.
This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.
Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.
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(When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)
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10 May 2025
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// FileSystem: Warning: Deleting SecUnit memory data is not recommended and may cause system instability or disciplinary action.
A SecUnit has a glitchy system clock. There's definitely nothing else going on.
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10 May 2025
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Murderbot's buffer is becoming a problem.
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10 May 2025
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While visiting Preservation on a new contract with some of her family, Tapan notices a familiar face.
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10 May 2025
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Something something the mortifying ordeal of being known by Zerobotic
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Oct 2020
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Amena notices something Murderbot wishes she hadn't.
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10 May 2025
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Circadian Rhythms by raven (singlecrow) for rmc28
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Dec 2018
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This is the thing about your neural pathways expanding with practice. Sometimes you open your mouth and say a thing without meaning to, and it’s because you’re better at understanding humans than you thought you were.
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10 May 2025
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top 3 SURPRISING things you didn't know about the SECUNIT who pulled you out of an INCINERATOR by FlipSpring for Vaysh
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2023
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Six years after a SecUnit saves Sekai's life, she meets a rogue unit tagging along with a pair of representatives from the University.
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- Part 8 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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10 May 2025
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SecUnit hadn’t brought violence with it to Preservation. The violence had arrived uninvited.
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As soon as you devolved into violence, the gravity of it would do its damnedest to pull everyone and everything through the event horizon, eat up the universe until nothing was left.Series
- Part 7 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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10 May 2025
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Looking-Glass by blackglass, FlipSpring, GoLBCollabs (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2021
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It was as if, until now, SecUnit had just been a background figure in the stage-setting of Amena’s life, playing the shadowy role of some uncanny corporate surveillance machine-person. But now the light had fallen upon it, shown it in full color, full dimensionality, and that made SecUnit real to Amena in a way that it hadn’t been before.
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Making sense of an unfamiliar reality. Amena's POVSeries
- Part 6 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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10 May 2025
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The framework incorporates everything.
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“Hostile One” / Combat SecUnit’s POV at the end of Exit Strategy and the machinery of the RimSeries
- Part 5 of Murderbot Outside POVs
- Part 1 of Hostile Ones
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10 May 2025
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Months later, Tapan learns that Security Consultant Eden was a Rogue SecUnit.
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- Part 4 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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10 May 2025
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I pull close to it in the feed, and say, “You were lucky.”
The rogue SecUnit reacts, physically and in the feed. It sits bolt upright, and a wave of fear ripples off of it like a [cloud of micro-debris], or like an [emergency evasive maneuver that grinds a planet’s upper atmosphere]. It’s unpleasant. It’s unfamiliar. I capture the data, store it, and start chewing on it immediately.
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ART meets Murderbot, from ART's POV
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CHAPTER TWO contains identical text to chapter one, but it is formatted differently, with interactive text. check it out! if you want.Series
- Part 3 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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10 May 2025
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Despite his best efforts, he wants the SecUnit to be one of them. He will never voice it. He will never ask it. It would be pointless. Where the SecUnit is concerned, his feet bleed as he walks the cutting edge between suspicion and hope.
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From All Systems Red through Exit Strategy.
Gurathin's perspective on a certain murderbot.Series
- Part 2 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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10 May 2025