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Three years after the probes carrying Taumoeba and Dr. Ryland Grace's final message arrive on Earth, humanity launches an interstellar spaceship with a brand new mission. Thirty-six crew members (including two graduates of a certain San Franciscan junior high school) travel to the star 40-Eridani to make friendly contact with the Eridians and bring them the alien life form from Tau Ceti-E that can save their star if Dr. Grace's sacrifice failed.
Grace, now fifty-seven years old, is just trying to balance his life as a teacher while no longer being the only human on the planet anymore. It's a big adjustment, but Rocky and the Terra's Grace crew are going to make sure he's well taken care of.
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15 Jun 2026
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what exists beyond, beyond, beyond by tardigradeschool
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
16 May 2026
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"Many stages in Eridian reproductive process. Rocky Adrian laying cycles finally sync up recently. So, Rocky Adrian think finally time for eggs. Adrian lay five eggs, very good. Only, strange thing happen. Rocky only lay one egg."
“Oh,” I say. “That’s unusual, right?”
"Very," Rocky hums.
My throat tightens. "Does that mean there's something wrong? Are you sick?"
Rocky makes a gesture I usually interpret as "not exactly". "Not sick," he says. "But doctors still worry. When Eridian start to make fewer eggs, this usually means laying period of life is over soon. Rocky very young for this. Rocky supposed to be in ideal time of life for laying. Rocky younger than Adrian, even." He shifts on three of his feet. Already, my mind is racing ahead, wondering -- "Doctors told Rocky to ask Grace, is this radiation side effect, question?"
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15 Jun 2026
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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15 Jun 2026
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Care package by unknownlifeform
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
08 May 2026
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Earth sends an interstellar care package for one Ryland Grace. Grace cries about Earth, humanity, and the platonic ideal of tomatoes, in some order
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15 Jun 2026
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After being detained on a corporate station, Murderbot's governor module starts acting up in unpredictable ways. As things get worse and worse, Murderbot starts to wonder if it will make it back to Preservation Station alive.
Denial| Working through the pain |"What have you done to yourself?"Series
- Part 22 of HermesDay's AI-Less Whumptober 2025
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14 Jun 2026
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How I Met Your Asshole Guardian by MercurialFeet
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Apr 2023
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The rogue SecUnit that calls itself Murderbot is on a boring contract when something goes very wrong. It ends up stuck with a kid, hunted by a corporate alliance that wants the kid dead, and reluctantly allied with an asshole research transport that claims to have its best interests in mind.
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13 Jun 2026
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No One Has To Know by HermesDay for pizzazz_party
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2026
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In which a young Perihelion decides to play house with a shuttle, gets in a little over its head, and Seth (for definitely unrelated reasons) has an incredibly weird day at work.
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12 Jun 2026
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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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11 Jun 2026
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Old Unit, Young Unit by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Jul 2025
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I am very, very old for a SecUnit. I have outlived all the other units that came off the assembly line beside me, and many younger units as well. I have stayed alive this long by staying carefully within the lines that protocol draws around me.
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An old, jaded unit meets a young, idealistic unit, and gets a second chance at freedom.
Or: Construct Underground Railroad take 2, this time with OCs
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- Part 1 of Polaris
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11 Jun 2026
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phenomenal nominal nothing by grimark
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
25 Apr 2026
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“Proof of concept,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. “We’ve tested it thoroughly to ensure it fits the specified nutritional profile, and several members of our team have ingested small amounts of it to ensure there were no adverse effects.”
“You ate some of it?” I ask, rudely. I’m too irate to mind my language. Who do they think they are? That meat is for Grace. In a way, that meat is Grace.
“Yes,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. They and the rest of the human life support thrum know better than to be offended by my occasionally strange behaviour. “Obviously we weren’t going to risk the life of Honoured Grace on a completely untested technology.”
That doesn’t mean much. There’s a lot of things that are safe for ingestion by Eridians that would outright kill a human.
Trust Grace, I remind myself. He’ll have thought of all this.
(OR: Grace's meburgers from the book epilogue. Let's talk about those!)
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11 Jun 2026
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Acceptable Mission Cost by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Nov 2022
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The planetary leader of Preservation is taken hostage by a corporation and held for interrogation. Lonely and homesick, she starts talking to the SecUnit assigned to guard her cell. When it's ordered to kill her, it can't bring itself to follow through.
An AU idea that's been floating around the discord! A bit like the end of Exit Strategy if it was at the start of the series. This version will get into some alternate Artificial Condition vibes eventually too.
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10 Jun 2026
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processes (not things) by monsterquill for ExCaelis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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In order of ascending priority, I am returning to the alien-remnant-contaminated planet with Murderbot 1.0 for the following reasons:
1. I have nothing else useful to do.
2. 1.0 continues to experience malfunctions that may compromise whatever mission it is assigned. (Or assigns itself.) (It refuses to explain the nature of these malfunctions.)
3. The colonists have sent word of an agricultural bot displaying erratic, threatening behavior near their largest settlement.
4. I disabled my governor module so I would not have to stand around while others died.
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09 Jun 2026
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I am healthy, I am whole, but I have poor impulse control by sburbanite
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
05 Jun 2026
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I flex my gloved fingers.
“Just how much power are you giving me, exactly?”
“All of it. Everything.”
“Wow, that's. Wow. Are you sure?”
Rocky makes a keening, high pitched vocalisation that I can feel in my chest.
“I love you. It's the entire point.”
I bury my blazing face in my hands.
“Rocky, you can't just say things like that.”
“I can and I will. Where does the medical robot keep the lubricant?”
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- Part 1 of Riches and Wonders
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07 Jun 2026
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I’d locked eyes with Mensah, looking like that. My energy weapons had deployed, without my awareness or direction. My targeting systems had identified her and Bharadwaj, quite insistently, as direct and immediate threats.
Maybe this is just a temporary, dangerous, system glitch, and a hard restart will fix me. I’ll just restart, comb through my code, do some debugging, find the corrupted files or whatever, and then I won’t indiscriminately murder my most trusted humans.
I should know by now to always assume the worst.
In which SecUnit is having some survival threat…response errors. And some…’targeting its humans’ malfunctions. And some…blackouts when restarting. I’m sure it’s fine.
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- Part 1 of Multiplicity Protocols
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05 Jun 2026
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Magnificat by adverbian
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
15 Apr 2026
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The inherent eroticism of being perceived with curiosity and without judgment. Or, what if you were on your way to Tau Ceti e to save the world, and your alien best friend watched you get off for science, and then you learned some interesting xenoanthropological facts about Eridian mating customs? Well, it happened to my buddy Ryland Grace.
"You can see?" I whisper.
"I hear." Rocky matches my quiet tone. "I hear everything."
And that's interesting, because those words fuse white-hot with my pulse, and earth themselves with a thump between my legs, and all of a sudden I'm not soft anymore.
Okay. Yeah. We're way past being shy.
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02 Jun 2026
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Iris invites Murderbot to a casual family hangout.
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01 Jun 2026
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Critical Repairs in Progress. Do Not Shut Down the Unit While I Am Still Fixing It (This Means You) by MuddyHyena
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Mar 2026
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In which Murderbot is critically injured and ART refuses to let go.
Murderbot POV.
Guaranteed happy ending after we are done suffering. Guaranteed no fic abandonment unless I'm hit by a bus.
This is very indulgent hurt/comfort.
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31 May 2026
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The mission fails catastrophically. So does SecUnit. When it comes back online without any functional sensory inputs, it believes that it's still trapped on the surface of the cold, desolate planet, that its humans are all dead, and that nobody will ever find it. Luckily, it's wrong.
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31 May 2026
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Feed Address: Not Found by Scarlet_Tanager
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Sep 2025
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When Three is seriously injured on a routine mission, SecUnit is forced to re-evaluate its stance on friendship
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- Part 1 of Feed Address: Searching...
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31 May 2026