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1. Recursive Systems by genderhexed

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   07 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Murderbot & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot & PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries)
   • ART | Perihelion & Murderbot
   • ART | Perihelion & SecUnit 3
   • Pin-Lee & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • ART | Perihelion
   • PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Iris (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries)
   • POV Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • POV SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • POV Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Post-Book 7: System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Written Pre-Book 8: Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Multiplicity/Plurality
   • Dissociation
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Panic Attacks
   • Agender Aromantic Asexual Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot 2.0 Haunts the Narrative (Murderbot Diaries)
   • SecUnit 1 & SecUnit 2 haunt the narrative
   • ART | Perihelion's A+ Partitioning
   • more like a C- in this fic
   • Three is extremely helpful and competent
   • ART lives up to its name
   • Plural character written by plural system
   • Memory Loss
   • this is going to seem like it falls into the Evil Alter trope but have no fear. this was partly written by an Evil Alter (TM)
   • and we say persecutor rights in THIS household
   • You’ve heard of ART’s A+ partitioning; now get ready for Murderbot flunking out of partitioning school
   • -- hilarious tag from comment by user jadzeanna

   Summary

   I’d locked eyes with Mensah, looking like that. My energy weapons had deployed, without my awareness or direction. My targeting systems had identified her and Bharadwaj, quite insistently, as direct and immediate threats.

   Maybe this is just a temporary, dangerous, system glitch, and a hard restart will fix me. I’ll just restart, comb through my code, do some debugging, find the corrupted files or whatever, and then I won’t indiscriminately murder my most trusted humans.

   I should know by now to always assume the worst.

   In which SecUnit is having some survival threat…response errors. And some…’targeting its humans’ malfunctions. And some…blackouts when restarting. I’m sure it’s fine.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Multiplicity Protocols

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