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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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10 Nov 2025
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Secondary Redundancies by pineapplesquid for momo-momora
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jan 2022
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Murderbot's first mission with ART's crew didn't go as planned, and its return to Preservation is complicated by a missing limb and assorted misunderstandings. Awkward conversations to be had, weird cases to be worked, a heist to plan, and new protocols to learn.
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10 Nov 2025
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#being weird at me by FascinatedFinch for Greywarrant
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2025
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Tag_description: Actions directed at me with no clear reason or explanation. Non-hostile actions only.
Associated_tags: #analyze later #or never #emotions #maybe #ugh
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09 Nov 2025
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One More Reason to Hate Planets Pt. 2 by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 May 2025
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Three suffers a catastrophic injury while planetside, and Murderbot has to cope with the realization that it may never find out what it's like to be its friend, and the guilt and anger that brings. (Can be read as stand-alone, no need to read part 1 first.)
It asked about you, ART tells me as soon as it finishes the handoff with its drone.
What?
In the compound, when everyone was heading to the surface. After it collapsed the first time, after it called for its original crew, it asked about you. I pull up the file again and run it to that part. How did I miss that? ART-Drone had picked it back up, tried to reassure it, the humans had all as well. I had been wanting to skip over seeing everyone look sad and scared for Three, and seeing Three struggling. But Three had pinged for help again, this time with my feed address attached. It had been asking me to come help it. It isn’t here, ART-Drone had told it. It’s with the other group. After a moment, it had pinged again. An acknowledgement, and a request to disregard previous requests. Three had given up. It wanted another SecUnit there, but when it couldn’t have that, it gave up. Why?
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- Part 2 of One More Reason to Hate Planets
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09 Nov 2025
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While recognizing that we have traveled well into the realm of the hypothetical – AMI are as yet a theoretical entity, the progeny of AMI still more so – we are nevertheless quite confident to say that the introduction of children to the world of AMI would be a pivotal moment indeed.
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The brain baby thing.
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09 Nov 2025
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Attn: Dr. Ayda Mensah, M.D.; PhD.,
I have, for want of a better term, "abducted" your SecUnit associate.
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Ayda receives ART's message buoy.
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08 Nov 2025
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"How do you stand it?"
Dr. Gurathin's tone is slow and even when he asks, "Stand what?"
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SecUnit 3 shares its feelings with someone who might understand.
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08 Nov 2025
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What's wrong?
For SecUnit's sake, Ayda lies to it.
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Even the most paranoid people let their guard down sometimes.
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08 Nov 2025
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reclaimed, refurbished, repurposed by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Aug 2022
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"All my existence, I've worn logos. My armor was always stamped with the company logo, and the logo of the company that was renting me. And I have company logos on my inorganics, too. I can't do anything to remove them."
Bharadwaj was still wearing her neutral, listening expression, but it broke slightly with a frown. "Why not?"
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Murderbot picks up some new drones, and does not project its insecurities onto them.
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07 Nov 2025
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"You're exhibiting symptoms of exhaustion. You need to stop and take a rest period."
"What would you know about it?" she asks, as if it's not absolutely right.
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Pin-Lee gets a visitor while she's working late.
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07 Nov 2025
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I check on my friends if they've been DND for a while. He made a gesture that was kind of like a shrug. If you're alright, then I can go. I just need to hear from you that you are.
It was an easy out that Ratthi was tossing me. Two words, and he would leave.
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Murderbot is annoyed with Ratthi for caring about it.
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07 Nov 2025
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So long as Iris had her interface in, Peri was always with her.
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An adolescent Iris loses something important.
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07 Nov 2025
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What have they done to You, Perihelion?
They have taken Your crew.
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Peri is trapped in its own body.
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- Part 2 of network error
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07 Nov 2025
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Iris had grown up knowing the Perihelion as a protector above all else, and she had never been given any reason not to feel perfectly safe while she was aboard.
She pinged it again, and held her breath. It wasn't there.
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To successfully board the Perihelion, the first and most important step is to bring down the bot pilot.
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- Part 1 of network error
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07 Nov 2025
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"If Station Security catches it in the wrong place at the wrong time, or if they get tired of the investigation, or just if SecUnit pisses the wrong person off, they might try to arrest it."
Ratthi snorted. "I mean, they sure wanted to." Gurathin said nothing, and Ratthi's humor dried up. "You're serious. You really think that Station Security would do something like that? Even knowing that SecUnit is innocent?"
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Ratthi and Gurathin break for lunch.
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07 Nov 2025
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When ART finally confirmed the PA credentials and cycled the lock, I was waiting in the foyer. I'd disabled my human behavioral code, so I didn't twitch when the whole group of humans all stopped in their tracks to stare at me.
I said, "You have boarded the Perihelion, registered teaching vessel of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Please state your business."
In my feed, ART whispered, You sound like a shuttle attendant.
I sound like a SecUnit.
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During a cargo run, ART is subjected to a random security sweep. Murderbot falls back into its old routine of supervising annoying humans.
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07 Nov 2025
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Even completely deactivated, the SecUnit's mind is not a peaceful place. You delve into its stored memory, seeking answers to the questions it didn't know to ask.
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While Murderbot is being reconfigured, ART gets a jumpstart on researching its past. Of course, the best source is a primary source.
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07 Nov 2025
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conflicts and resolutions by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Aug 2021
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"The targets," 1.0 snarls. "You shot them."
"You also shot them," I point out. I feel as though I'm missing something obvious.
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Murderbot and Three have differing opinions on the appropriate level of force to employ against hostiles.
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07 Nov 2025
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Dear Art,
Is that a weird way to open this feedmail? "Dear" is a really dated term, isn't it? It sounds super formal and super personal. We don't really know each other, do we? You probably only remember me as the idiot who almost bled out in your ship.
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During its time apart from Murderbot, ART gets a pen pal.
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07 Nov 2025
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acknowledged (GP-53214680-J) by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Feb 2021
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ComfortUnits are absolutely essential to the prevention of violence. This is in our primary education modules, as one of the first things we're ever taught.
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FileID: GP-53214680-J: Memories recovered from a ComfortUnit rented on a long-term contract to the mining installation at Ganaka Pit. Contents are proprietary; access restricted.
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07 Nov 2025