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"The one drawback to listing Secunit as one of the emergency contacts on her PSUMNT admissions paperwork is the possibility that someone might actually contact it for an emergency someday." Amena's---and Secunit's---collegiate careers in twelve snippets.
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When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.
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- Part 2 of Admin Access
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I had been incredibly skeptical when Ratthi had sent me ‘Midnight Eclipse.’ I knew what fanfiction was, I had seen it in the more niche entertainment feeds before. Never specifically for Sanctuary Moon, but I'd assumed it existed. That didn't mean I had any actual interest in it, though. When I had first looked at them, I hadn't liked them. The quality varied too much and a lot of them weren't finished, or were really short, or really out of character. And I hated that. I really really hated that.
This one was different.
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One More Reason to Hate Planets by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 May 2025
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Murderbot’s not crying, it’s just got dust in its eyes/everywhere.
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Murderbot has a relatively minor compared to everything else it’s been through but still objectively terrible time on a planet.
You wouldn’t understand. You like everything about yourself. I realize I don’t actually know that for sure. I just always assumed it was true. But even if it’s not, ART is an advanced machine intelligence in a highly sophisticated transport body and it loves its function. It can’t understand what it’s like to have flaws that can never be upgraded or patched out because they’re in your human parts. ART doesn’t have human parts. ART isn’t a construct. ART-Drone says nothing for 8.7 seconds, so maybe it’s finally realizing that I’m irreparably flawed. But then it says, I like everything about you, and that makes me feel light and melty on top of all the other things I’m already feeling right now.
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- Part 1 of One More Reason to Hate Planets
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When Murderbot finishes a boring mission for ART’s crew, all it wants to do is spend a calm evening watching media in its favorite chair. This plan is derailed when it finds an unexpected creature hiding behind a crate.
Or: In which Murderbot and ART meet a kitten.
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- Part 2 of Into the Kittenverse
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The first ping that came in was weak in a wobbly sort of way, like its sender wasn't fully out of the wormhole yet. The next was much clearer and sharper, and this one I bothered to return.
Did you miss me? purred ART.
No, I said. Get out of my system.
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- Part 3 of Loverboy
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cute……
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an illegal amount of fluff
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SecUnit, ART said carefully, you know that I would never do that to you, right?
“You would,” I dismissed, “if you had to.”
Panic spiked from it in the feed. That was another thing I think not many people got to see from it. It made me feel special. I was glad we were friends.
I would never have to, it insisted.
“If someone turned my governor module back on,” I said disapprovingly, “and ordered me to kill Iris, wouldn't you?”
I would not.
“You would just let me kill her?” I said. It would be stupid to let that happen, but it didn't matter, because I knew it wasn’t true. Whether it knew it was lying or not, it was lying.
I would find another way.
“And if there was no other way?”
There is always another way.
“I wish I could be as naive as you sometimes,” my body said distantly. I felt sort of three steps away from myself, watching it talk for me. “I know you know what happens in the Corporation Rim. But you haven't seen it the way you think you have. You haven't been inside the shape of it.” I tilted my head to the side to rest my cheek on my knees. That didn't really sound like me, but I guess it wasn't really me speaking, anyway. “You’ve killed people, but never people you wish you hadn't. You’ve pulled the trigger, but you've never looked someone in the eye when you did.”
ART was silent. That was weird. It always had something to say.
“You could have to. And you would, because you can. It's not like I could do anything about it.” I waited for it to say something, but it didn't. “You’re not going to let another Ganaka Pit happen. I think I'd rather you killed me than that, anyway.”
I don't want to think about made up scenarios where I have to kill you.
“Oh,” I said. “Sorry.” I let my eyes drift over to the welding in the corner. Nice and smooth. ART had gotten someone to clean it up before I was officially hired to join the crew. It was very thoughtful of it. ART was a good friend. “I know you wouldn't want to. I don't think you want to hurt me, that would be stupid. It’s just that you could.” I let my eyes linger on an asymmetrical lump in the weld. It was small, but a machine intelligence would never have missed it. “I think that's how humans must feel when they're around me.”
I think we should watch Sanctuary Moon, said ART. It was radiating a weird mix of fear-anxiety-concern into the feed. It wasn't a particularly nice feeling and I kind of wanted to pull away, but ART was a good friend, and that would probably make it sad. It already felt bad and I didn't want to make it feel worse.
“No thanks,” I said. “I don't really feel like watching anything.”
Another weird spike of panic from it. This time I did pull away, but it clung on and I gave up. It wasn't like I could actually do anything about it if it didn't want me to.
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Murderbot goes job hunting by ShinFay
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Marvel Cinematic Universe
21 Aug 2024
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Through a freak accident, Murderbot gets transported to the MCU universe and figures out that stealing shit from Tony Stark while trying to solve physics in order to go back home is a good idea.
HIATIS: I'm following the dopamine in a different fandom now, but I don't think this work is abandoned yet. I don't know what exactly would lead to me updating this fic again, but it wouldn't be impossible for me to revisit.
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the revolution will be broadcast on the feed by Jothowrote
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Jun 2025
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What happens when Murderbot's file spreads among the B-E SecUnits and beyond? Surely nothing that will embarrass it in the future.
Outsider POV of Murderbot, its influence, and ART, from a SecUnit who has joined the glorious HelpMe.file revolution.
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Tapan is going to the theater with some of her partners on her local station. It's going to be a nice night out, and when she sees someone she thinks is a human security consultant with a few other people at a table outside the theater.
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Tlacey's ComfortUnit returns (and dates Murderbot's lawyer) (the extended universe)
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Murderbot is the Princess of Barish-Estranza! Well, its tissue culture is, anyway, at least according to Leonide. Now Murderbot has a chance to exploit a loophole in the planet’s charter and free its people from corporate rule—if it can learn to walk, talk, sit, and stand like a princess, that is. Thankfully everyone is there to help.
(It won’t be enough).
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The Princess Murderbot Diaries by beeayy
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Murderbot is the Princess of Barish-Estranza! Well, its tissue culture is, anyway, at least according to Leonide. Now Murderbot has a chance to exploit a loophole in the planet’s charter and free its people from corporate rule—if it can learn to walk, talk, sit, and stand like a princess, that is. Thankfully everyone is there to help.
(It won’t be enough).
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The thing was I knew it was stupid. All of it, all of the parts. Especially the part where I was even considering it. But ART didn’t have to ask.
And I didn’t have to let it in, so I did.
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- Part 1 of sandbox environment
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Freefall, Feelings, and Other Things I Wanted To Avoid This Spring Break by ArtemisTheHuntress for scheidswrites
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Jan 2025
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Murderbot begrudgingly accompanies Amena to an amusement park during the Pansystem University's Third Quarter Break. It was supposed to be fun, but of course it doesn't go smoothly. It didn't know what to do with itself on vacation, anyway. Life-threatening danger due to corporate negligence and daring rescues of clients from situations that were less than nine percent survivable - that, at least, it knows how to handle.
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Secret Admirer by scheidswrites for Aphelocoma californica (Aphelocoma_californica)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Jan 2024
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ART takes a ride along on-station to witness a bit of anti-corporate espionage up close and personal. There's just nothing quite like watching its partner-in-crime do what it does best.
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Systems restart
Suddenly it was coming back online. And it was somewhere else. Not where they were supposed to be.
Murderbot disappears.
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“Please,” it begged, “I don't want to die.”
“I know,” I said.
I hit it for the last time.
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“Attention,” said ART over the speakers, “apparently we are introducing you all to the terrifying rogue CombatUnit that ripped SecUnit's arm off. Please report to the crew lounge for what I am certain will not be incredibly awkward for everyone involved.”
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- Part 1 of Loverboy
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The serial I was watching with ART abruptly cut out and the menu screen for a game I didn't recognize replaced it.
Libra Knights sucks, said 2.0, play this with me.
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“You're going to tear your arm off!” burst Turi.
“ART can put it back on,” I dismissed.