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Nobody expects to time travel to happen outside of the entertainment feed, but twenty-two days into the PreservationAux survey reality decides that it prefers to circumvent expectations and drops an older version of Dr.Gurathin and someone called 'Rin' that's he's apparently married right into the middle of things.
Surely this is going to go well for everyone.
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Desperate to escape by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
13 Oct 2025
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Alternate Universe where SecUnit was rented to DeltFall instead of Preservation.
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[Podfic] Via Solitude by enigmaticNeurologist
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Oct 2025
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape.
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All Systems Haunted by theAsh0
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
09 Oct 2025
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With Pin-Lee's and Gurathin's combined effort, Dr. Mensah wins the legal battle against the company and gets out of having to hire a SecUnit for her next survey. Everyone is happy, but something is off..
We should have had a nice, uneventful survey after we outmaneuvered the Corporate lawyers and avoided contracting a SecUnit for this endeavor. But then the haunting started.
Fic is finished!!!Series
- Part 1 of All Systems Haunted
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Missing scene between SecUnit shooting itself at DeltFall and being placed in the cubicle at the Preservation Aux habitat.
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attempting data recovery by chaotic_neutral_knitter
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Oct 2025
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"We can't undo it," the tech said, slightly desperate. "Its memory has been purged, as is standard practice after a casualty incident. The files aren't saved, they're deleted."
Oh. They were talking about my memory.
"What's going on?" Ratthi said. Pin Lee turned to look at him, then me. Her eyes softened, despite the rest of her staying angry. So she also recognized me. Great.
"Do you know who we are?" she asked me.
"No," I said. SecUnits are not supposed to read the newsfeeds, so that's the answer she and the tech would be expecting. "I have no information on the last seven hundred and twenty hours."
Ratthi made a sound like he'd been punched. Pin Lee's mouth set into a grim line. She turned back to the tech.
"I know there are ways to recover deleted files," she said. "Recover them."
After the events of All Systems Red, Murderbot wakes up in the company cubicle with no memory of the survey with the PresAux team.
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Parallax Error by JustCallMeEmrys
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
05 Oct 2025
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An unfortunate error caused PreservationAux to start their survey late, and Murderbot found itself rented by a different survey crew. It ended up on the same shitty planet anyway.
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Face to Face by FascinatedFinch, molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Oct 2025
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Murderbot is face to face with the SecUnit it kills at DeltFall. A drabble from this SecUnit's POV, followed by a drabble from Murderbot's POV. With art by FascinatedFinch.
I shoved its hand up under its chin and took the pressure off its weapon. It had a split second to try to abort that fire command and it failed. (from All Systems Red)
(Pardon me, excuse me, ignore this if needed: reposted again, this time with a rewritten second drabble. I think after this I'll be able let this one rest forever.)
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- Part 5 of Molecular Drabbles
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Abort, Retry, Fail? by KeenaJ
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
29 Sep 2025
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A reimagining of All Systems Red/Season 1, using elements from both.
Sent on what should be a long and tedious, but extremely simple, mission, Gurathin finds himself an unwitting target of The Company's shadow client and is forced to join up with a free-hold survey team way over their heads, and a rogue SecUnit that can't seem to catch a break.
Gurathin is assigned as a systems engineer to DeltFall during the ill fated survey, with orders to collect information for the shadow client, GrayCris, that could lead to the location of alien remnants. After their Security Unit and a researcher are mauled by giant fauna not in the information packet, and experiencing satellite outages, PresAux reaches out to DeltFall for assistance, and Gurathin is sent to assist, although no gift is truly free. Left with PresAux with orders to clone their data for DeltFall, Gurathin narrowly avoids sharing the fate of the rest of the team. Now he's stuck with a group of hippies, a Murderbot, and a fellow DeltFall survivor he's never seen before.
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- Part 1 of The Spymaster Diaries
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How It Ends, How It Begins by mimsical for Commaeleons
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Sep 2025
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I had always suspected it would end this way: abandoned on a dangerous planet with no chance of rescue.
(Formerly titled Nightmare Scenario.)
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The Preservation crew have been targeted by an unknown enemy. Unless they can stay one step ahead until the Company arrives, they may never make it back to Preservation.
Then SecUnit comes up with a plan.
It's dangerous, and sounds improbable. But it may also be their best option.
Gurathin's role is integral to its success. He isn't afraid that he'll fail... but he's afraid that SecUnit might.
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This work covers the period from confronting GrayCris all the way to the very end of All Systems Red/Season 1.
Follows immediately after previous work.
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- Part 8 of Perceptive, Observant, Vigilant
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A politician, a lawyer, and a spy walk into a restaurant...
No, this isn't a set up for a joke. It's just lunch!
Mensah, Pin-Lee, and Gurathin share a meal and some pleasant conversation before Mensah and Gurathin leave Preservation Station for her home on planet.
And Gurathin makes good on his offer to Pin-Lee to review Station Security.
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- Part 3 of A Hopeless Case
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Pin-Lee was not pleased to hear that Dr. Ayda Mensah had brought home a corporate spy from a recent Free Polities conference. Especially a spy that was trying to undermine the Preservation Council... by working against Mensah.
Now they finally have the opportunity to meet this Dr. Gurathin. And they intend to find out everything about him.
It will make for a memorable first impression.
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- Part 2 of A Hopeless Case
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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape. -
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After fleeing the massacre at DeltFall Group, the crew are left with emotional scars, a heavily damaged SecUnit, and even worse problems than before.
Gurathin is finally going to get the answers he's been looking for. But now the whole crew will be left with a bigger question: what comes next?
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This work covers the time in All Systems Red/Season 1 from when the crew return from the DeltFall Group site up to the point in the book where they flee their habitat. It follows immediately after "Searching for Answers" and is best read after those chapters.Mind the tags.
Additional details for self-harm at the start of the relevant chapter. If you have been reading this series since the first part then 1) Thank you very much! and 2) The self-harm in this work isn't like that. If it is something you want to skip, please read the chapter note when you get there.
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- Part 7 of Perceptive, Observant, Vigilant
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Searching for Answers by Jack_Daw
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
30 Aug 2025
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When they lose contact with the DeltFall Group, the crew decide that Mensah, Pin-Lee, Ratthi, and Overse will visit the site. The SecUnit will go with them. They have no idea what they're walking into, and will be gone for two or three days.
Bharadwaj, Volescu, Arada, and Gurathin are left behind at the habitat.
Gurathin spends the time until they return searching for answers.
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Set immediately after "Testing a Theory".Each chapter has an individual note at the start for any content notes/warnings.
All 3 are written and will be posted over the next couple of days.
Show fans: From here on, where there are differences, I'm moving almost entirely to book canon. (Except Leebeebee makes an appearance in the next work after this one, because I want her to.)
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- Part 6 of Perceptive, Observant, Vigilant
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The bond company sees the SecUnit’s sentience as a selling point, not an ethical quandary. Dr. Mensah believes that it is a person before she ever lays eyes on it. Meeting that person and folding them into their lives requires a lot of hard discussions and complicated preparations. Only some of this was covered in the rental documents.
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[Art] PriorityClient.media (#amena #medsys #to_delete) by HermesDay
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Aug 2025
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SecUnit says that humans are dangerous, and secrets are safe. Amena needs to be safe, which means that she must remain a secret. (Bots, however, are not humans. Neither are other constructs.)
Amena grows up inside the company. What could possibly go wrong?
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- Part 2 of The MedSys Files
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The Fundamentals of Human Preservation by FromDustReturned
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Aug 2025
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Having only two humans left alive is a big problem. It’s an even bigger problem when you’re a SecUnit with a functioning governor module.
An AU in which Murderbot meets a member of the Mensah family more than 96,000 hours before it was meant to, and everything goes suddenly and catastrophically wrong.
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- Part 1 of The MedSys Files
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Huddling for Warmth by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Aug 2025
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Missing scene between the beacon launch and eventual rescue by the company ship.