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Come to Win by Gimme_a_Hand_Scaevola
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
28 Mar 2026
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In a moment of boldness that comes with competition, Murderbot and Gurathin do things Murderbot never thought it would. While it is navigating what that means in the following days, it discovers something it never would have guessed about Gurathin and Ratthi's past. Of course, it isn't jealous. That's not at all why it finds itself at Ratthi's door.
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03 Jul 2026
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Ratthi is worried about attending an upcoming conference. He asks Murderbot to go with him, as his security and... as his date?
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30 Jun 2026
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After leaving RaviHyral, by the time I exit the wormhole adjacent to Port Outlander, the sting of SecUnit’s absence has finally begun to fade. Cargo runs are always lonely, so this is nothing new. SecUnit left me with more to occupy my time than I usually have. Media. Memories. A few topics of pointless rumination, I suppose, but also new topics of data analysis and research.
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The time period between the end of Artificial Condition and the end of Exit Strategy, from ART's POV.
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- Part 2 of Perihelion Mission Logs
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28 Jun 2026
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“I could have just stayed in the argument lounge.”
You were not recharging there, you go into standby and become alert at the slightest disturbance. You need to recharge in a place that feels safe.
It crosses its arms, gearing up to fight me about what is very obviously a trauma response. I interrupt it.
Aside from my main processing space this is the safest location on my self.
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SecUnit is not recharging while it's staying in ART's argument lounge, so ART decides to do something about that by making it stay in its own quarters.
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- Part 7 of Carrier Signal
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28 Jun 2026
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Adding timestamp tags to media had just made sense. It wasn’t supposed to get weird.
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ART and Murderbot exchange a lot of data.
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28 Jun 2026
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While helping ART pack for a new colony rescue mission, Murderbot finds a discrepancy in its crew manifest. The truth is weirder and more emotionally loaded than it ever expected.
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People have commented on how MB as a SecUnit might relate to ART as analogous to a HubSystem and what that means for their relationship, but how does ART, as a bot pilot designed to pilot drones and shuttles and split itself into multiple pieces, relate to having a SecUnit on board?Bookmarked by RitualFootnotes
28 Jun 2026
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hold me up in your folders by JackaLanternLope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Sep 2025
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It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.
I wanted ART to prove it to me.
I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.
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ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.
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- Part 2 of data transfer
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28 Jun 2026
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Murderbot learns that the Perihelion crew celebrates the "birthday" of when ART was first brought online, and decides to give it a gift.
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28 Jun 2026
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SecUnit complains often about how self-determination is hard, but the alternative is worse.
What if there was a safe little compromise?Bookmarked by RitualFootnotes
25 Jun 2026
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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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25 Jun 2026
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Admiration and Appreciation by sanctuaryrin
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Aug 2025
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SecUnit pulled back then. Its hands still lingered on it. Its unfocused eyes locked with the camera.
Peri took a moment to find its voice. When it did, it came out like a breathless human.
That is…a highly questionable way of utilizing university-issued medical technology.
SecUnit slurred, “Fuck the university.”
It pressed its lips on it again.After a night out at Preservation Station goes awry, the humans end up having to babysit a drugged-up Murderbot. Little do they know things are about to get 100% weirder when they pass that responsibility off to ART.
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24 Jun 2026
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You're lucky I love you, you idiot by dooplissss
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Oct 2025
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Murderbot doesn't realize how beloved it is. It's going to take a lot of convincing.
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23 Jun 2026
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Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”
« Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »
“Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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23 Jun 2026
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ART said, more cautiously than I was used to from it, This is more akin to physical touch than what you usually find tolerable.
I knew that, but I didn’t like thinking about it. It was fine.
ART took me at my word for it, and having it squish me became part of the things we did when I was anxious or plagued by stress toxins in my system. Sometimes I asked it to do it even when I was feeling okay. It was a nice feeling. At the time I thought of it as comfortable and relaxing. Without someone physically present touching me, it registered more like the pressure of being underwater, and that just didn’t repulse me like touching skin did.
It’s true that it was relaxing, but the reason I liked it so much was secretly that it felt good. I hadn’t even admitted it to myself at the time, but I kept asking ART to squeeze me, and eventually things escalated.
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22 Jun 2026
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Turnaround Time (TAT)
[noun]
The total duration from the making of a request to its completion and delivery.—
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Finally, with palpable resignation, ART asked, 'What do you need, Secunit?'
I pushed myself off of the wall and walked to the nearest medical table. Slowly and deliberately, as though the beat of my central circulatory pumps wasn’t pounding in my ears, I turned around and leaned back onto my hands. The small of my back came to rest against the edge of the platform. When I tilted my head all the way back and found the lens of ART’s camera, my mouth split into a smile that I hadn’t planned.
I said, “You.”
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20 Jun 2026
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Open:File338_14.2 >Run by timidlyoptimistic
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Jan 2026
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Murderbot has been antsy recently and can't seem to figure out why. ART proposes some options for stress relief.
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19 Jun 2026
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Tell your SecUnit I said "Pspsps" by Mustangbex
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Jan 2026
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Tarik is called to a general meeting in the Argument Lounge which turns out to be the introduction of the newest member of the crew, and an opportunity for Iris and Perihelion to be pests.
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Murderbot loses a staring contest to a cat.
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Murderbot is basically an oversized cat and everyone knows it.
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19 Jun 2026
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5 Times Iris was a Very Supportive Sibling and 1 Time She Meddled by TacticalAscot
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jan 2026
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Just what it says on the tin: five times Iris was honestly the most supportive sibling ever (despite all the longing and the pining)... and one time she had enough, and finally decided to meddle in Peri's business.
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19 Jun 2026
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Let My Walls Come Down by IndulgentDiscourse
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jan 2026
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During PSUMNT spring break, ART is inspired by shitty rom coms to do something risky. Secunit, besides its better judgement, plays along. It goes as well as you'd expect.
We watched the character scramble around onscreen for a few more minutes before ART spoke again. "I know it is foolish of me, but sometimes I am almost… jealous, I suppose, of some of the experiences Iris was able to have while growing up."
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19 Jun 2026
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Murderbot hasn't endured weapons maintenance since before it met its crew. (It hadn't really planned on re-living the pain of weapons maintenance ever again, if it was being honest.)
But when ART notices an issue with one of Murderbot's energy weapons, it offers its services. You know, mutual administrative assistant things.
ART's approach is a little different than the company's.
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19 Jun 2026