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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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(Or, 5 times Murderbot’s humans recommended new serials for it, and 1 time Murderbot returned the favor.)
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Mutual Clients by mensah for AgenderAgenda
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Dec 2025
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Pin-Lee and Murderbot discuss the attorney-client relationship.
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- Part 10 of Gift and Event Fics
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The Murderbot Diaries, re-told from Dr. Mensah's POV. Features rewrites of scenes from the books, my interpretations of missing scenes from the books, and takes on what Dr. Mensah was doing off-screen.
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Demo & Inspection: Pre-ASR one-shot exploring the missing scene mentioned in ASR and AC where Dr. Mensah sees Murderbot's face for the first time when PresAux tries to get out of renting a SecUnit.
Hard Edges: Two-shot covering the events of ASR chapters 1 and 2.
Unit Offline: Two-shot covering the events of ASR chapters 4 and 5. Dr. Mensah is jacked.
Left Behind: One-shot covering the events at the end of ASR chapter 7.
Extended Disconnection: Longform fic covering the events of ASR chapter 8 through the end of ES from Mensah's POV, including what Mensah was doing off-screen in AC and RP.
Public Figures: One-shot exploring the missing scene mentioned in FT when the news that Murderbot is present on Preservation Station is published.- Words:
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Bookmarked by opticsel
07 Oct 2026
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mensah pov through the end of exit strategy
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Discomfort Protocol by broken_risk_assessment_module
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Oct 2021
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"Could one of us pretend to be a ComfortUnit?" Ratthi asked.
"No. Constructs have a noticeably higher feed presence than humans."
Gurathin leant forward in his chair.
“What about an augmented human?”
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Five times SecUnit's humans saw that it loved ART and one time Iris saw it too.
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Or,
It is common knowledge that Perihelion is an obsessive psychopath when it comes to being right, and that it is similarly obsessive over producing high-quality empirical evidence to vindicate itself (whether anyone else even cares that much or not).
It is not common knowledge that its sister has, unfortunately, also picked up this habit.
So when SecUnit disagrees with Iris over something and watches her turn around and leave without argument, it has no idea what is coming.
Well, kind of.
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Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”
« Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »
“Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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While on an undercover mission deep in the Corporation Rim, Tarik
buysstealsrescuesacquires a ComfortUnit. This is fine—it can hang out while he finishes the mission, he’ll be not-an-asshole to it, and then it can go on its liberated way and never have to see him again. This will definitely not get weird and messy.- Language:
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Bookmarked by opticsel
03 Oct 2026
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I LOVE!!! OCS (original constructs) !!!!!!
this is so fucking good and i love when people explore what tarik’s background has done to him trauma wise. everything that happens in this fic is so awesome. also the game is SO FUCKING FUNNY as a reader knowing exactly what’s going onnnn it’s so awesome -
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Living on Preservation Station while waiting to hear back about a potential job offer, Three makes new friends--one of whom is like no one it has ever known before--and becomes embroiled in a situation that is much more complex than it initially appears.
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Outsider perspectives on Murderbot.
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In a gambling club on a corporate station, a ComfortUnit's life takes a sharp turn.
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Boost the Signal by IHopedTheredBeStars for musicofthespheres
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2025
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So, some of your people are being held captive. What's better than a SecUnit rescue mission? A TWO-SecUnit rescue mission, that's what.
Set shortly after System Collapse.
For the prompt, "a Three & Murderbot-centric fic".
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Bookmarked by opticsel
02 Oct 2026
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another great fic that captures the “cousins who only got close after escaping their fucked up family” feeling very well
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She stamped along in silence for twelve point five seconds. “Look, I’m sorry, but I’m not some kind of idiot, and I don’t fuck around. If he’d done anything I didn’t like, I was going to leave. And if he wouldn’t let me leave, I have the feed, I can call for help whenever I want.” She was scornful, and way overconfident. “I wasn’t going to let him hurt me.”
I said, “If I thought he was going to hurt you, I’d be disposing of his body. I don’t fuck around, either.”
--Network Effect, Ch 2
Ever wondered what Murderbot would have done if Marne had been planning on hurting Amena? Here's one possible answer.
From the prompt: "breaking the rules".
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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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Construct Research Department Verse (Previously StationUnit Stories) by transcendentcreature
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Apr 2026
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Deployment Center SecUnits touch a lot of lives, even if [the company] won’t even acknowledge them as sentient.
This series follows my Deployment Center Unit OCs from Port FreeCommerce to a new home at PSUMNT through the Construct Research Department where they find new ways to connect and help other Units like them.
*not limited to OC POV; there are some Murderbot and some Three-centric stories here.
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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Bookmarked by opticsel
01 Oct 2026
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COME BACK AND FIND ALL THE ENDINGS!!!!
this is some CRAZY html and i’m so fucking impressed -
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I come back from the dead.
Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?
"What's going on?" I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. "What the fuck is going on—"
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[ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]
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01 Oct 2026
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explodes<- NO. TERRIBLE FIRST THOUGHT TO HAVE. NOBODYS ALLOWED TO EXPLODE -
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When Murderbot did a background check on Amena's roommate Marisol (because of course it did a background check) it discovered some things that were never in its education modules. The additional information that Marisol supplies isn't going to change its mind about planets at all.
(First chapter is Marisol's POV, second chapter is just pictures with commentary.)
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- Part 2 of Roommates
Bookmarked by opticsel
01 Oct 2026
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bookmarked for the memes dude oh my GOD
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Verbal Record of Events (Please Listen) by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Sep 2026
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The BarEstMedic Medibot (Surgical) on board the Conquistador is very good at what it does. Which is surgery. Not all this other stuff. Why is it being faced with problems it has never faced before? And what if not all of the developments are bad?
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- Part 4 of Paradise
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Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by BlatantBookworm
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2026
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I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
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Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
Mostly positive.
Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
(Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
(It’s still pretty positive.)Series
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MB Diaries Reference Doc for Fic Authors by Kuraiummei
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
30 May 2026
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Exactly what it says on the tin.
I'm re-reading the series for the fourth time, and this time I am going to actively archive all those critical details here that are needed for writing fanfiction accurately. Dates, names, phrases, dossiers, etc.
Ch 1: Table of Contents
Ch 2: Sanctuary Moon (+other media)
Ch 3: MB Characterization
Ch 4: Location Descriptions
Ch 5: Slang/Terminology & Tech
Ch 6: Repair Logs (+Perf Rel & Rsk A.)
Ch 7: Excerpts and Quotes
Ch 8: Construct & Bot Capabilities
Ch 9: SecUnit S.O.P. & GovMod Rules
Ch 10: Character Dossiers
Ch 11: Timeline
Ch 12: Political/Corporate Entities
Ch 13: MB Physical Contact Log
Ch 14: Martha Wells Writing Style
Ch 15: SecSys/Bot code