20 Bookmarked Items in Post-Hacking of Murderbot's Governor Module (Murderbot Diaries)
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After the events of Artificial Condition ART comes across another SecUnit while some of its crew are on a mission.
The SecUnit is headed to their meeting to kill them.
What’s a ship to do but use the code it watched Murderbot apply to a governor module, so it can stop the construct.
Well, it could have killed it, but it thought that would have been rude.
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Murderbot tries to delicately balance its desire to save people with that person's flagrant disrespect for safety rules.
While it's at it, it snags some useful codes for later.
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- Part 23 of After Hacking
- Part 25 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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Murderbot has to clear out a list of hazards from a defunct industrial facility, but the most hazardous thing of all is the team of humans micromanaging it and making everything worse.
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- Part 22 of After Hacking
- Part 24 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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Murderbot tries to answer a plea for help.
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- Part 14 of After Hacking
- Part 16 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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healing tears
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Supervisor Della is unusually alert to suspicious download activity, but it never occurs to her to suspect the right person.
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- Part 12 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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Tbfr
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Murderbot is not paid enough to deal with this shit.
(It's not paid at all, which is definitely not enough.)
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- Part 1 of After Hacking
- Part 2 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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- English
- Words:
- 1,502
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 46
- Kudos:
- 318
- Bookmarks:
- 12
- Hits:
- 1,305
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Murderbot and Monochromatic Regicide by Translucent_Dragonfly
Fandom: In Stars And Time (Video Game), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 May 2025
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- 12,205
- Works:
- 6
- Bookmarks:
- 11
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Amena has a sponsored educational trip along with 5 of her friends to a research station somewhere in the Corporation Rim.
She doesn't technically need a bodyguard, as no one knows who she is, especially not the daughter of a planetary leader.
Unfortunately, she doesn't feel comfortable going alone, so instead of her immediate family members, or Ratthi, or Arada, or any of the other humans who might like to shepherd her and a group of annoying adolescents, she asks me.
Me.
This is going to be a massive clusterfuck.
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- Part 1 of The Murderbot Auxiliaries
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Oh, So That's What Media Tags Are For! by Gamebird
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Apr 2023
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Early on in Murderbot's media-watching career, it learns the value of accurate tags on media, as well as other ways to deal with undesired content.
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- Part 15 of After Hacking
- Part 17 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,019
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 32
- Kudos:
- 240
- Bookmarks:
- 7
- Hits:
- 1,357
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Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD by Abacura, Gamebird
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Jun 2025
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A lot of my TMBD fanfiction links together and here I have put them together in a mostly chronological recommended reading list. Most of this is canon-compliant Gen until you get to the Murderathin (MB/Gurathin) stories near the end, after Skulk. That's also where you'll find the only bits out of chronological order, with a couple stories from Gurathin's youth.
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wasting my time, in the waiting line by GoLBWrites (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Dec 2024
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I expect I could achieve states of boredom humans couldn't even dream of. This comes with not being considered enough of a person to get bored.
Boredom hadn't changed since I hacked my governor module, but now my brain didn't get flash fried when my attention started to wander.
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wasting my time, in the waiting line (3251 words) by GoLBWrites
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Introspection, No Dialogue, Post-Hacking of Murderbot's Governor Module (Murderbot Diaries), Pre-Book 1: All Systems Red, Depression, Discovering Sanctuary Moon, Governor Modules (Murderbot Diaries)
Summary:I expect I could achieve states of boredom humans couldn't even dream of. This comes with not being considered enough of a person to get bored.
Boredom hadn't changed since I hacked my governor module, but now my brain didn't get flash fried when my attention started to wander.
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Alien: Remnants by MrFarty
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Alien (Original Movies 1979-1997), Alien Series
31 Dec 2024
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Murderbot is contracted to provide security on a cargo run within the Corporation Rim when a distress call comes in. The crew choose to ignore its entirely reasonable warnings about quarantining alien remnants, so it takes matters into its own hands.
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Company Rules by Fractalspaces (LotusRox)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
18 Jun 2025
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Distantly, Gurathin remembered the union snipers on the upper floors, the drone clouds they'd all coded in case of emergency. The dull ache of his body, sharper on the side of his head, was fighting the painkillers he'd gotten loaded on beforehand. His feed was a panorama of warnings and the empty boxes of blocked ads.
He was cannon fodder with no actual conviction, an indentured systems engineer with expensive augments. The SecUnit advancing over his sprawled shape hadn't come for him - Not really.
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The company's techs notice something weird about one of the SecUnits. Murderbot does not enjoy the sudden attention.
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After Hacking by Gamebird
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Feb 2025
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A series of short stories to the prompt: pre-canon but post-hack, Murderbot is owned and deployed by the Company. Emphasis on it facing painful, difficult choices, where it has to “choose” to obey, has to “choose” to act governed Or Else, where Murderbot has to look like it’s following callous, cruel, or profit-oriented orders, but still does what it can to reduce harm.
Please note that given the constraints of the prompt, Murderbot continues working, doesn't gain substantial allies or abilities, or make big changes in the world. Its gains are incremental and mainly self-discovery, so there's not a big, happy ending like with most of my fics. Murderbot is still learning some of the abilities it takes for granted by the time we meet it in ASR, including hacking, vocabulary, and social skills (yes, it has fewer social skills here than it does in ASR!)
These scenarios are arranged chronologically with several set within the same assignment, taking place within the first year after it hacks the governor module. I imagine these as incidents it discusses with Dr. Bharadwaj at some point post-NE, as it talks about early times when it recognized its own agency.
Thank you to horchata for helping me brainstorm!
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for later!
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After the recovery comes requalification.
But what does that even mean, when you don’t have corporate overlords to answer to?
Oh, and the drone is getting major upgrades. Nothing to be nervous about right?
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- Part 9 of Code Affinity
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Alternitive Media Recommendations by Translucent_Dragonfly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, In Stars And Time (Video Game)
04 Mar 2025
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"Anyways. I've joined the savior to kill a monarch to end a curse to save a magic country to hopefully buy some time and distract myself before ART comes to rescue me.
Yeah, I don't know how I manage to get into these situations either."
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In which Murderbot crash lands it's stolen transport unit onto a country called Vaugarde, and has to find a way to spend it's time before rescue arrives. Thankfully, the planet is doomed, and the local Savior has some good media recommendations, so there's plenty of work to be done before Murderbot loses it's mind to boredom.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot and Monochromatic Regicide
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You're on Your Own, Kid (More or Less) by Drag0nst0rm for saiditallbefore
Fandoms: Scholomance - Naomi Novik, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Dec 2023
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El asks for help.
Someone unexpected answers.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,054
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 65
- Kudos:
- 343
- Bookmarks:
- 32
- Hits:
- 1,230
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HELL YEAH
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The Rise and Fall of SecUnit by usuallyareader
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Dec 2024
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I hate these clients. Worse, this is a months-long survey of this murderous planet. I’ve decided that I fucking hate planets.
Since being unloaded as cargo and starting this contract 5 days ago, my governor module hasn't been activated. I think I’m starting to believe that it won’t somehow activate itself at this point. While usually I meet my clients prior to the start of the contract, this time I was not activated until the contract was set and all the cargo (yes, including me), was unloaded on the planet.