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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    I held it for a long moment and waited for ART’s litany to run out of steam. When it finished, it did the bot equivalent of taking a deep breath, then said, I am so mad at you.

    “I got that.” I know I’m not great at the emotions thing but even I could figure out ART was pissed at me from the raging storm of its feed presence and, you know, all the insults. “Why?”

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    13 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 33

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    SecUnit attempts to retrieve ART-drone during a mission gone wrong. This has repercussions.

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    12 Jun 2026

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  3. Public Bookmark 58

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    We all know the old joke: a rogue SecUnit walks into a bar. The bartender, a rogue ComfortUnit in hiding who's been having one hell of a day, takes one look at it and has a bad idea.

    Really. It's a terrible idea. Dragging a rogue SecUnit home for a one night stand is probably the most dangerous thing it's ever considered.

    Luckily, the rogue SecUnit in question is Three. And if Three knows one thing about itself, it's that it wants to help.

    Somewhere on Preservation, there's a tiny cabin on a big homestead, where stubborn purple flowers refuse to die. In the cabin, in the aftermath, a pair of equally stubborn constructs have an idea that, just maybe, isn't terrible at all.

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    23 Apr 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    “What are we looking at, time-wise?” I ask.

    Three hours until full collapse, maybe two and a half before irreversible abstraction, and— For a moment, it pauses, but not as if it's nervous. It pauses in a way that punctuates its next statement. Two before you need to terminate my kernel.

    Lightning shoots up my spine. “I'm not doing that.”

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    15 Mar 2026

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    They are boarding now, as I stand some kind of guard before the door. The last of them climbs up into the vessel, and the counter that is consuming my mind ticks up. Eighty-seven. Eighty-nine.

    Then I hear something new. Not only new words, but a new tone, a new feeling in the feed. This message is only to me.

    «You got them out,» it says.

    And then, «Your work is acknowledged.»

    I want to cry. I want to rip something apart with my teeth – I want to scream loud enough to bring the habitat down. I want to cry. But I can't.

    So instead I tap it back in the feed. «Negative. Your work is acknowledged.»

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    This new SecUnit Murderbot's picked up has an attitude.

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    16 Feb 2026

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