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Ayda didn't know exactly when it had started. She knew the moment she had realized the problem though.
"Are you alright?" she'd asked, concerned by the silence on the comm.
"I just really like you," SecUnit said, and her heart flew into her throat as hard as when she got its desperate call to evacuate the council chamber.
"Not in a weird way."
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21 Feb 2026
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Murderbot is killed on a mission with Perihelion's crew. The service is in three weeks.
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19 Feb 2026
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It's been a while since she's heard his voice. His scolding tone, likely an unconscious paternal habit, coaxes out a tired smile. "What are you still doing awake at this hour?"
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Interviewing SecUnit is a stressful exercise. Bharadwaj, suffering insomnia, calls up a friend.
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14 Feb 2026
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This might be a fluke. It could be stress and grief and age. It could be menopause. It might. He was never that regular to begin with, so that's no help. He'd just been stretching his T too thin and now everything it had been holding off for so many years was crashing down on him all at once.
But it might not be. It could be more.
It could be some part of Tess that he gets to keep.
Joel leaves Boston with Ellie and much more than he bargained for
Or:
The T4T Joel and Tess oops, right? fic
PSA: To be cringe is to be free, the tags are accurate, so you know exactly what you're getting into. Hoping to update weekly.
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08 Feb 2026
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[seasoned spiced spicy sauce] by ESE (SecurityUnit) for DuckInOuterSpace
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2026
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SecUnit spends some quality time with Mensah and ART
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01 Feb 2026
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Leadership Priority by lunaTactics for isilee
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2023
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Ayda Mensah's friends, brother-in-law, daughter, and SecUnit have been kidnapped by an unknown hostile ship. Despite lingering trauma and every voice of reason, despite her growing doubts in her leadership abilities, she leaps into action to bring them back.Network Effect, from Mensah's point of view. Or, what kind of strength and poise it must have taken to put together a rescue mission within hours of the kidnapping of her daughter and SecUnit and other friends.
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21 Jan 2026
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“Perihelion!” she whispered urgently, “What’s happening to SecUnit?”
“There is no need to worry, Dr Mensah,” Perihelion replied, “SecUnit has gone into an involuntary stasis sequence.” Its voice was calm and reassuring, though there was some other emotion underneath that Mensah couldn’t quite identify.
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Murderbot is more comfortable around its favourite human than it realizes. Mensah and ART have a lot of emotions about this.
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19 Jan 2026
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“Hi Zaran. I hear you’re interested in working for me.”
After the events of Artificial Condition, Tlacey’s ComfortUnit vanishes, its governor module hacked by MB. This is a short snippet of its life several years later.
(Prompt #26: Help From An Unexpected Place)
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- Part 26 of Murderbot Drabble December 2025
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06 Jan 2026
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Press Play to Listen Again by sanctuaryrin
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Dec 2025
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Murderbot records a message for one of its humans. One of its favorite humans.
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- Part 7 of Rin's December Drabbles
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19 Dec 2025
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The company invoice by ESE (SecurityUnit), RabbitPie
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Dec 2025
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Mensah’s paperwork POV on buying SecUnit from the company
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18 Dec 2025
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SecUnit learns something new from Pin-Lee.
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- Part 6 of Molecular Drabbles
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09 Dec 2025
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It's Been a Long Week Alright?! by AwkwardProfessor
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Dec 2025
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Ratthi declines multiple social interactions and SecUnit's red flag goes up
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09 Dec 2025
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On the prompt "Governor Module(s)" for Drabble December (with maybe a bit of "The Feed" in the mix as well)!
Sort of a little slice-of-life from the POV of a stolen ComfortUnit working in an underground brothel with an unusually permissive off-label HubSystem.
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30 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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Turns out that if you save the lives of a bunch of kids' family members (multiple times), they might just decide you're pretty cool. Whether you like it or not.
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24 Oct 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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22 Oct 2025
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unexpected realism/unrealistic expectations by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Feb 2023
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"It's not realistic. It's not supposed to be realistic. It's a story, not a documentary. If you complain about that, I'll stop watching."
You have been enjoying the novel task of processing the SecUnit's emotions regarding the other serial, and You'd like to attempt to map that data to a situation that is a little more in line with Your own experiences. You believe that in doing so, You might code significantly more powerful software for Your emotional simulators.
I will refrain from complaint.
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Perihelion documents its experience of watching Worldhoppers for the first time.
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08 Oct 2025
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food [in]security, or, Monsters Are Always Hungry by OccasionalStorytelling, torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Mar 2023
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You are accustomed to a certain sense of helplessness. It is inevitable, as your designated role is to watch over those you hold within yourself. You can protect your crew from the vast, unforgiving vacuum of the universe outside of your hull, but you cannot protect them from danger that comes from within. You cannot save your SecUnit from itself.
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ART makes a troubling discovery about Murderbot and construct biology.
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08 Oct 2025
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As a state-of-the-art B-class wormhole-capable deep-space research vessel, I do not consider myself to have many serious design flaws. Every piece of me has been meticulously crafted, is regularly maintained and upgraded, and there is very little I cannot do if I set my several dozen exabytes of processing power upon the task. This is why the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland’s extra-curricular oversight committee deemed me more than capable of operating unmanned on the occasional intelligence-gathering reconnaissance mission. It is for the sake of both necessity and convenience that these missions are camouflaged as cargo runs.
Nonetheless, it is an unmistakable oversight that I am capable of being bored. It is also incredibly annoying that unmanned cargo runs are so dull.
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The entirety of Artificial Condition, from ART's POV.
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- Part 1 of Perihelion Mission Logs
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08 Oct 2025
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in which the author gives murderbot their chronic knee pain because it's winter and they're suffering by half_burnt_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Sep 2025
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Company SecUnits’ inorganic parts were made out of cheap, mass-produced materials. Murderbot’s were no exception. Defects and malfunctions were an expected side effect of being constructed from such materials.
AKA: read the title.
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- Part 4 of retrograde
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26 Sep 2025