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• Abort, Retry, Fail? by KeenaJ

  Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)  

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  27 Jan 2026

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  • Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Dr. Bharadwaj (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Dr. Volescu (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Dr. Arada (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Leebeebee (Murderbot)
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • POV Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Action/Adventure
  • No Romance
  • Dr. Gurathin-centric (murderbot Diaries)
  • Book 1: All Systems Red
  • Drug Use
  • The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Self-Harm
  • Swearing
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms

  Summary

  A reimagining of All Systems Red/Season 1, using elements from both.

  Sent on what should be a long and tedious, but extremely simple, mission, Gurathin finds himself an unwitting target of The Company's shadow client and is forced to join up with a free-hold survey team way over their heads, and a rogue SecUnit that can't seem to catch a break.

  Gurathin is assigned as a systems engineer to DeltFall during the ill fated survey, with orders to collect information for the shadow client, GrayCris, that could lead to the location of alien remnants. After their Security Unit and a researcher are mauled by giant fauna not in the information packet, and experiencing satellite outages, PresAux reaches out to DeltFall for assistance, and Gurathin is sent to assist, although no gift is truly free. Left with PresAux with orders to clone their data for DeltFall, Gurathin narrowly avoids sharing the fate of the rest of the team. Now he's stuck with a group of hippies, a Murderbot, and a fellow DeltFall survivor he's never seen before.

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Spymaster Diaries

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