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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, not the way they are shown in media. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]
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15 Feb 2026
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Murderbot asks where art is. What in the world does that mean?
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Alternate ending to Exit Strategy. Based on a conversation from the #mb-perihelion channel in the New Tideland discord. Written in two days so forgive any errors.
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12 Feb 2026
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ART?
SecUnit. Stand and return casualties to the shuttle.
It sends me a map of directions, marking the bodies around its corridors.
ART, say something. Call me an idiot, please.
SecUnit. Apply a 5% correction.
This can’t be happening. I shouldn’t have done this, we should have fought to the death instead. I’ve made a terrible mistake.
They installed a governor module on it.
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Barish-Estranza captures and installs a governor module on ART. Can Murderbot find a way to save the both of them?
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12 Feb 2026
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Work Song by brushstrokesApocalyptic for penna_nomen
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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While testing a new feature of its human imitation code, Murderbot trips over an old memory it had forgotten about.
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A Day to Forget by penna_nomen for nova_73
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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The crews of the Perihelion and Holism enjoy a snow day. Which means Murderbot has to spend the day on a planet and is grumpy about it until Three helps it see the fun in the crews' games. Meanwhile, ART and Holism are inspired to try an experiment based on the popularity of amnesia plots in media.
Written for the Murderbot Diaries New Year's Gift Exchange event.
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