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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    Its hard to protect your clients from a mysterious Evil Survey group that's trying to kill them while also trying to hide the fact that you are a rogue SecUnit. It is even harder to protect your clients from a mysterious Evil Survey group that's trying to kill them while hiding the fact that you're a rogue ComfortUnit, especially since they've already managed to take out your SecUnit.

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    All Systems Red if Murderbot was a ComfortUnit instead of a SecUnit.

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    16 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    Perihelion's presence bears down on me in the feed. I do not think that it can read my mind, but it feels like it is trying to. I am bleeding something into the feed, but I do not know what. I am being scrutinized, picked apart, ogled.

    What?

    All of my organics feel tense. I… want to watch the videos you gave me.

    Do you require my permission to do so?

    No.

    Then watch them.

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    Or: Three attempts independent research. It doesn't stay independent for long.

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    14 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    The turbulence continues for 13.9 seconds. During that time, I should have checked on my other humans through my drones. I should have reached out to the hopper to steer it for the human pilots, who were not as well-equipped to process inputs during the violent shaking. I do neither of these things. Something about holding Iris like this—her weight on top of me, her hair pressing against my face, my lungs filling with the smell of her—has short-circuited something in my systems. Performance reliability, paradoxically, rises several points from its recent dismal average of 94% to a reasonable 97%.

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    13 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    "You consumed the enemy, yes?" It called TargetControlSystem ‘the enemy’ and had seen me eat it from the memories I gave it. "The enemy was very powerful. It could make machines capable of impossible things. You too are very powerful now, but you are not the enemy."
    I thought of ARTs wormhole transit times rapidly decreasing due to its remnant exposure. I didn’t feel more powerful, did I? Could I do something like that? What would the equivalent be for sentient killware?
    "What if I’m dangerous?"
    AdaCol2 laughed at me. "You were always dangerous, young one"

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    2.0 lives and is kind of a teenage badass. It has inherited all the ruthless killing power of both its parents and also all of their angst and awkwardness (Its figuring it out, okay?) The corporate rim really doesn't stand a chance.

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    10 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    I gather my courage and ping Perihelion back. [Query = independent med drone with fluid pump apparatus].

    Perihelion immediately responds [affirmative] and then “I do not understand why you are asking for this.”

    I have never asked for an alternative to an order before. I am trembling, but I am buoyed by the hot ache below my power core. “I would like to perform the fluid resupply myself."

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    Three has needs and knows how to meet them. Perihelion is nosy. Maybe Three would like some help? ...Yeah Three definitely could use the help, Perihelion is not having an existential crisis about bot/construct sexuality at all.

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    25 Jan 2026