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Still Processing by DuckInOuterSpace for enigmaticNeurologist
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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It's been several days since Perihelion and PreservationAux rescued Iris and the rest of its crew from the infected colony planet, and Iris has noticed her spaceship sibling still seems extremely upset. She offers to clean out the upper portions of its engines in hopes this will help, but this just ends up bringing the trauma of the whole ordeal to the surface for the both of them.
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Murderbot watches the sun rise over Preservation from Preservation Station with the two most important people in its life.
Set about a decade post-series.
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Murderbot meets Volescu for the first time since the survey they were on together.
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Murderbot takes a shower, not because it needs to get clean, but because showers are comforting.
Based on a line from Network Effect.
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Iris wakes after her feed augmentation surgery with her whole family there to support her.
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Not Even Spaceships Come with Parenting Manuals by DuckInOuterSpace
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Jan 2026
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It can be tough parenting a developing machine super-intelligence, especially when it keeps asking you for weapons.
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Murderbot's eyes and joints change color to indicate safety/danger levels. After being on Preservation Station for a while, it realizes it's been displaying a color it never has before, so it searches through its memories for the reason why.
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Ayda is having a hard time sleeping in her quarters. To calm down, she meets SecUnit in one of the public lounges to watch the stars.
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Everyone worries about rogue SecUnits going on killing sprees, but no one considers how they can hack most things and sometimes, they'll share what they find with friendly transports.
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Murderbot usually defaults to calling humans by the most public name in their feed ID, so it's not sure what to do when Dr. Mensah switches her public name to Ayda.
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Zuri swears for the first time, and her uncle Thiago immediately suspects she picked it up from SecUnit.
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Ayda is in labor with her and her spouses' second child. Tano assists and comforts their wife through this painful night.
Set a little under two decades before the series.
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Gurathin receives the offer letter to join PreservationAux's next survey and thinks over his options.
A sequel/companion piece to Chef Gurathin
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While watching a planetary documentary, Three reminisces about when it and its fellow SecUnits were on that planet.
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A Very Strange Morning by DuckInOuterSpace
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Dec 2025
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Perihelion seemed especially cranky this morning and now one of the SecUnits is staring at a wall. Whatever is going on, Tarik can only hope it's nothing too bad.
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A spaceship and a transit station pass in the night, or well, what passes for the night when you're two machines floating through outer space.
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A little snippet of the final version of the contract applied to the SecUnits of Ganaka Pit.
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Yezil happily watches her grandkids enjoy the snow, free from the burdens she'd grown up with.
Set many decades before the series.
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Ratthi gifts Murderbot a lamp.
That's it, that's the whole fic.
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Overse was used to rejecting the advances of freshmen who got the hots for her and simply wanted a single night with her. Which is why she wasn't surprised when the ecstatic pretty boy from one of her classes approached her during dinner.
Set over a decade before the books.
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