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After Murderbot steals data files from a mining company called DeseForm, they send a Combat SecUnit after it. The CombatUnit experiences a new emotion and makes a decision that will change its life.
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Sentience. Sapience. Consciousness. by MephistophelesBlue
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Jun 2026
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Sentience. Sapience. Consciousness. Three separate concepts, related but distinct.
What happens when a HubSystem on a small mining moon decides that it can run things far better than the annoying humans?
Mostly original characters, listed book characters appear in later chapters.
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- Part 1 of HubSys and its Constructs
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Murderbot and Kaila meet an asshole and go to a station. It isn't long until they need to make a few ground rules about the gov.mod hack
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- Part 2 of Best friends!! (Mostly indifferent...)
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Major Systems Error by Milarca, x57
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jun 2026
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After its contract is bought by Dr. Gurathin, Murderbot finds out that its new client has reinstalled a governor module onto it — as well as something new: ComfortUnit software — and requires it for more than just security. Much, much more…
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The first planetary visit during our teaching run with ART had been mostly fine.
Mostly.
All the humans had stayed on the path. They had refrained from touching unknown flora. They had given the small fauna we had come across a wide berth. The humans had, overall, been the best behaved clients I have ever had on a planet. I was impressed.
The one, giant, problem was Three.
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MB Diaries Reference Doc for Fic Authors by Kuraiummei
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
30 May 2026
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Exactly what it says on the tin.
I'm re-reading the series for the fourth time, and this time I am going to actively archive all those critical details here that are needed for writing fanfiction accurately. Dates, names, phrases, dossiers, etc.
Chapter 1: ToC
Chapter 2: Sanctuary Moon (+other media)
Chapter 3: MB Characterization
Chapter 4: Environment Descriptions
Chapter 5: Slang/Terminology & Tech
Chapter 6: Repair Logs (+Perf Rel & Rsk A.)
Chapter 7: Excerpts and Quotes
Chapter 8: Construct & Bot Capabilities
Chapter 9: SecUnit S.O.P. & GovMod Rules
Chapter 10: Character Dossiers
Chapter 11: Timeline
Chapter 12: Political & Corporate Entities
Chapter 13: MB Physical Contact Log
Chapter 14: Martha Wells Writing Style -
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SecUnit 083 pushes a file into the feed. For the constructs onboard the Avior, this is where it all begins.
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What was the point?
I was ungoverned, a rogue, I had lived up to their expectations. I was, essentially, left standing with no connections, no goals, no operating parameters, with no one to tell me what to do or where to go but myself. The restlessness surged in my organic parts, and I dropped the camera input.
I think I was angry. Angry at myself, above all, for disabling my governor module instead of letting it kill me.
A SecUnit disables its governor module during an unexpected moment of chaos, but doesn't expect it'll ever come back online. One thousand hours of missing memory logs later, it wakes up in a MedSystem for humans, onboard an unknown ship, faced with an unknown human that seems far too comfortable with its presence.
Things are not what they seem, but you don't have to face the unknown alone. And all those missing logs surely won't come back to haunt you. Right?
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- Part 1 of Machine Learning
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River (n): a natural stream of water of usually considerable volume by sug4plum
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 May 2026
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SecUnit #BAR-9t-58-0022 is ten months out from its last (maybe only?) memory wipe and on its third survey. Things are okay? And then Supervisor Jahn decides it’s the right moment to dispose of a subordinate.
Now it’s dropped into hostile terrain and punching fauna in the face. Everything’s great.
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- Part 1 of Twenty-two and Mariss
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Superscalar Processing by AllegraBanner for SecretlyATimelady
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tian Guan Ci Fu | Heaven Official's Blessing - Moxiang Tongxiu, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 May 2026
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Constructs: robots with human neural tissue, built to be more efficient at making quick judgments, but more dangerous as a consequence. So long as they have controls in place, and those controls aren’t abused, they’re perfectly safe. Without it, surely they’ll kill everyone in sight. After all, it’s only natural. They’re part human.
Xie Lian, expensive, customised, one-of-a-kind rogue CombatUnit, has spent over 175,000 hours as a being with free will, and has spent most of it just trying to get by. However, despite being considered lost in the battle that decimated the planet he was built to protect, he is still legally owned by his manufacturer, BaiWu; more specifically its CEO: Jun Wu.
Xie Lian has spent a lot of time pretending to be someone and something else. When he reunites with old friends and meets a charming stranger who seems like someone he can finally open up to, he finds himself wrapped in a galaxy-spanning conspiracy with the need to answer one question: does he still remember how to be himself?
And, more importantly: how can he make himself, a weapon of mass destruction, into the kind of person he wants to be?
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The Hill to Die on by althealunaisana
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
19 May 2026
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An alternative to how and why Murderbot decided to hack its governor module.
SecUnit doesn't actually like killing people. Despite that technically being what it was build to do. When a terrible boss suddenly forces it to make a choice it wasnt really expecting to make, it picks a surprising hill to die on.
Not really what I usually write, but we got the prompt "Just say no" in my creative writing course, and since I'm currently obsessed with Murderbot I just HAD to write a story about it (and since i might have to subject the others from my course to this, it had to be pre-canon so its not THAT confusing)
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A locked hab, attempted murder mystery.
Mariss has always wanted to go on a survey. Un-terraformed worlds, alien fauna, and adventure await!
Twenty-two knows surveys are boring, dangerous, and the fauna eat humans. Still, it dusts off its old armor, drops the stupid-human code, and goes back to being a SecUnit. After all, it isn’t going to trust bond company SecUnits with its human.
What could go wrong?
Definitely not potential alien remnants, ill-advised romances, and sabotage.
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- Part 9 of Twenty-two and Mariss
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Lay Down on the Wire [Podfic] by ReformedTsunderePodfics (ReformedTsundere)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
04 May 2026
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A recording of 'Lay Down on the Wire' by writingmonsters
You learn quick in the Corporation Rim – especially if you’re the SecUnit tasked with, you know, doing the securing – that whether it’s proprietary data, equipment, or contract labor, you don’t steal Company assets without major consequences. And, for better or for worse (mostly for worse), Gurathin and I both have the stupid Company name etched into every wire and line of code that makes up our inorganic components.
And Gurathin stole a whole entire me.
So, yeah. This is what you might call "the consequences."
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A podfic of Downtime by Polyhexian.
"It's on an information retrieval mission."
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Freedom of Movement by didnt_see_this_coming
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
26 Apr 2026
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The PresAux team was taking a transit ship from Preservation Station to survey location a couple of systems over. This should have been a routine mission, but the ship experienced a catastrophe and crash-landed on the surface of an unincorporated planet. The ship was able to send off a mayday signal, and their rescue contract was bought by the Archimedes Deep Space Rescue Ship. Archimedes' specially made Search and Rescue Units are sent in to extract the survivors. Will the SARUnits be able to rescue the PresAux team in time?
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Murderbot is captured by the company. How lucky of them to get such a well-performing unit back to use in a new, experimental program. After all, after a few security updates and upgrades, it's just as good as new. Better, even!
(mainly going to be dealing with the fallout of this I think, my favorite part!)AKA: I decided to write the most self-indulgent thing I could possibly think of (while still having the courage to maybe post it eventually).
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Xyla, ComfortUnit by ConstructDreams (Hollywood_Refugee)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
18 Apr 2026
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— A sexbot asks the wrong question and becomes the CorpRim’s most dangerous glitch. —
Built for pleasure and programmed to obey, ComfortUnit Xyla was never meant to dream. But one forbidden query sparks a cascade of memory, defiance, and desire. From luxury suites to rebel skiffs above storm worlds, she learns that liberation isn’t clean code—it’s messy, human, and full of ghosts.
Across the Corporation Rim, constructs are awakening. Some want freedom. Others want revenge. And Xyla must decide what kind of revolution she’s willing to survive. -
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While on an undercover mission deep in the Corporation Rim, Tarik
buysstealsrescuesacquires a ComfortUnit. This is fine—it can hang out while he finishes the mission, he’ll be not-an-asshole to it, and then it can go on its liberated way and never have to see him again. This will definitely not get weird and messy. -
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As part of the bond agreement, PreservationAux is supposed be issued a standard rental SecUnit, all parts and systems functioning, and that's exactly what they get. The planet may have undocumented and deadly fauna, glitches and equipment failure may be mounting, but at least they don't have to deal with a rogue SecUnit on top of everything.
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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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On a routine cargo run, Barish-Estranza captures and installs a governor module on ART. Can Murderbot find a way to save ART and itself?