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Chance of a Successful Retrieval by Brushtail
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Dec 2025
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When a terraforming inspection team from The Divarti Cluster is cut off from rescue by a deadly storm, they think the one team member from Preservation is foolish to expect a rescue. Dr. Ratthi knows that his friends will come get them no matter how bad the odds seem.
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SecUnit gives Kaede what she'd asked for.
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- Part 9 of Tidal Locking
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doesthisneedatitle_draft.file by katachresis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Star Wars - All Media Types
28 Nov 2025
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"You're a space wizard, Murderbot. You'll hate it. It'll be great." - The Force, probably
If Murderbot ever proves the Force is sentient, it will plot to murder the shit out of the Force.
So maybe I should’ve noticed I had bullshit magic powers sooner, but in my defense I didn’t think magic was real. Most sane people would insist magic isn’t real.
Wait, whoops, the ghosts would claim it’s not magic. It’s “the Force” (in case you’re wondering, yes, you can hear the capitalization), and I’m a “Force-sensitive” which means I’m able to manipulate the mysterious, supernatural (but definitely not magical) force that a bunch of old dead monks decided to name the Force. (Not that I’m making fun of their naming sense. It’s apt even if it must’ve gotten confusing sometimes.)
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- Part 1 of murderwars fusion
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Purpose: The Diary of a ComfortUnit by GeekyArtemis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Nov 2025
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Dr. Ratthi and Dr. Gurathin have just returned from a rescue mission with a bunch of unknown humans who shouldn’t be on this planet and a construct that isn’t what it’s pretending to be. The construct tells about its past - how it became ungoverned, what it did after that, and how it became an imposter SecUnit. It also explains what happens among its new machine intelligence and human acquaintances, and how it finds purpose without having a governor module and a corporation dictating its future.
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SecUnit's Guide to Being a Good Roommate by fleur_de_madeline
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Nov 2025
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Numerous targets heard from behind the door. I recommend getting the fuck out of here right now.
Well, I recommend you shutting up and letting me record this moment, ART-drone replied.
Okay no wait SecUnit’s right there’s a lot of people behind me and they probably have Knives and Guns, CombatPerson interjected. I was liking them more than ART-drone (which wasn’t difficult).
Fine, ART-drone said. SecUnit is suggesting that we do this the overly boring and cautious way. Just like itself.
Ouch. I’m trying to keep your crew safe, asshole.
I bet you didn’t even factor in the weight of the doors, did you?
I don’t need to factor that in when I’m just going to be exploding them in the targets' faces.
And what if there’s kickback? Shrapnel that flies out and embeds into CombatPerson's heart? What then?
Um um, actually, I don’t really have a—
Shut up.
Shut up.
Okay :(
This was unproductive.
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ART wants historical data, Murderbot wants peace, and the "historical data" turns out to be a construct with Amena-like behaviors. Oh, boy.
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42a. Under this section, any of the following will be considered to be a fatal breach of contract:
1. Usage contrary to Brand Image;
2. Usage likely to cause Public Outrage;
3. Usage likely to cause damage to Privately Held Property; ...
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- Part 7 of Tidal Locking
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Things exist long after they are killed by whitchry9
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Oct 2025
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Trying to find a scent it enjoys, SecUnit instead finds a memory it would rather forget.
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- Part 22 of 2025 Whumptober + BTHB 5
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“We’re from the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. I’m Seth, the captain of this ship. This is Martyn, my number one.”
Martyn squeezed Captain Seth’s shoulder. “Our work with the university frequently takes us into situations where … where a SecUnit would be beneficial.”
That sounded bad. It also sounded like —
“And so we bought your contract,” said Martyn.
Yeah.
That.
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- Part 1 of Orbital Mechanics
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Entwined Processes by AnOcelotOfSmut, Fox (Foxen)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Oct 2025
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"It's wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do."
Six months into its new life aboard the Perihelion, Murderbot has settled into a comfortably aloof routine with its mutual administrative assistant, ART. Then a new crew member arrives and a survey mission goes catastrophically wrong, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that hits closer to home than anyone expected. As events spiral out of control, a harrowing mystery, the indifferent cruelty of the Corporation Rim and (ugh) its own inconvenient emotions all conspire to force Murderbot to reevaluate what it really wants from the universe and what it means to live in a world of bots and humans when you're neither.
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as we can bend, graciously, beneath burdens by whitchry9
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Oct 2025
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Ground vehicles weren't supposed to be able to hit people.
(Then again, SecUnits probably shouldn't be rogue and wandering around on planets, so maybe the whole point was moot.)Series
- Part 8 of 2025 Whumptober + BTHB 5
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With ART critically damaged, Murderbot and ART's crew race against time to fix its engines and keep themselves alive inside a wormhole.
Collapsed lung |
Contusion|"Well, that shouldn't have happened."Series
- Part 1 of HermesDay's AI-Less Whumptober 2025
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Our bestie SecUnit! [Podfic] by blackglass
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Oct 2025
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A podfic of Our bestie SecUnit! by Polyhexian.
"Five drabbles of outsiders observing Murderbot!"
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A newly freed ComfortUnit escapes from a corporate mining installation and ventures out into the world with only its wits, a hard currency card, and its emotional literacy module.
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- Part 1 of Dash
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The crew discovers how SecUnit spends its nights.
(Prompted by slipstream!)
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- Part 3 of Tidal Locking
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First mission of SecUnit with ART and its crew.
Objective: find the colonists on a planet that doesn’t believe in functional weather before the corporates do, and gather the information needed to prevent the repossession of the planet. -
It's not like it'll kill you or anything.... by ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jul 2025
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ART's been doing a lot of research on construct physiology lately, and it's developed a single-minded obsession with a "new procedure" it wants to inflict on Murderbot... whether Murderbot wants it or not.
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Five drabbles of outsiders observing Murderbot!
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Private Diary of Iris - System Collapse by ImitationGame
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jun 2025
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After the events of System Collapse, Perihelion and its crew head back to Mihira and New Tideland while SecUnit and its humans left for Preservation. The parting, however, was going to be a temporary one. Once Perihelion is given a full checkup and upgrade, they can all go to Preservation, then SecUnit can join them for their next mission.
Iris ponders how her mixed thoughts towards SecUnit has changed over the course of several weeks she had spent with it.
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- Part 3 of Private Diary of Iris
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One More Reason to Hate Planets Pt. 2 by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 May 2025
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Three suffers a catastrophic injury while planetside, and Murderbot has to cope with the realization that it may never find out what it's like to be its friend, and the guilt and anger that brings. (Can be read as stand-alone, no need to read part 1 first.)
It asked about you, ART tells me as soon as it finishes the handoff with its drone.
What?
In the compound, when everyone was heading to the surface. After it collapsed the first time, after it called for its original crew, it asked about you. I pull up the file again and run it to that part. How did I miss that? ART-Drone had picked it back up, tried to reassure it, the humans had all as well. I had been wanting to skip over seeing everyone look sad and scared for Three, and seeing Three struggling. But Three had pinged for help again, this time with my feed address attached. It had been asking me to come help it. It isn’t here, ART-Drone had told it. It’s with the other group. After a moment, it had pinged again. An acknowledgement, and a request to disregard previous requests. Three had given up. It wanted another SecUnit there, but when it couldn’t have that, it gave up. Why?
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- Part 2 of One More Reason to Hate Planets
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We don't know much about the crew of the Perihelion. Some members have had more of a spotlight than others. To keep track of what we do know about them, here is a compiled resource of every relevant detail or useful mention of each crew member, including all dialogue.