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    Dr. Gurathin is a company technician who works alone on the SecUnits who have problems a cubicle can't fix. It gives him a lot of time to fuck around with them, and this time, to find out. Although perhaps not in that order.

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    With Murderbot’s cubicle broken, the Combat SecUnit is called upon to repair the damage from their latest test match. A construct mutual maintenance interlude from Lab Hell.

    Intended to be readable without prior NULLverse experience.

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    Audio Length: 3:03

    You can get used to anything after a while, even a Combat SecUnit slamming your face into the floor hard enough to leave behind smears of blood on the tile.

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    An extra moment in NULLverse lab hell

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    Murderbot must infiltrate a company facility to obtain spare parts. Along the way it grapples with the terrifying responsibility of caring - for itself, for Three, and for company-owned constructs who may not be willing or able to accept change.

    Sayatsugu has provided outstanding art to accompany this fic, which you can see in Chapter 4. Check out her Tumblr, too:
    Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/sayatsugu

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    Murderbot acompanies ART on a mission to rescue indentured workers from a station and meteor mine belonging to Palisade. Unknown to it ART is also picking up one of PSUMNT's doubel agents. Worse than that the spy insists on dragging a rouge CombatSecUnit along with her.

    Murderbot is stuck in close quarters with a Construct who has vastly different opinions about humans and personhood than it.

    ART is trying to help its new crew members achive their gole and have a happy life all the while helping Murderbot with it's journey too. Results vary

    The CombatSecUnit just wants to feel like itself again. It is not sure it remembers what that meanth back then (Does it even remember when and what back then was?)

    The spy knows her neural augments can buy her only so much time. She is dedicated to see her plan to destroy the Company to its end and desperate to see her only friend forever free and safe of the Corporation Rim's hold.

    At least between the four of them there is plenty of new media to watch in the downtime

    The Company is not planing on going down without a fight. Neither is Preservation.

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    My route has another projected 4.7 seconds. I tried so fucking hard to get to you, to outrun that fucking CSU. Unfortunately, that’s when the CSU shoots me in my power cord.

    I only have enough time to send a single, panicked message to you, telling you to get the hell out of here, before I suffer an emergency shutdown.

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    Staying online that long and bored made the flashbacks worse. Yes, I’d come to the conclusion that any memory previous to my rebuild couldn’t be trusted. This was fine. I wasn’t mourning my old reality.
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    After losing its fight against Palisade's CombatUnits, Murderbot is repaired and sent back to Dr. Mensah.

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    It had been 37 Barish-Estranza standard corporate cycles since I’d stepped foot into the airlock of a Barish-Estranza ship. It wasn’t the one I was originally assigned to, but the layouts and design across the fleet were identical.

    I knew where to go, just like how I knew that this hallway should be well traveled. There were no humans in sight; the area of the ship must have been in partial lockdown. I’d been flagged as a potential threat.

    (Or, Three comes home)

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    IntelUnit is one of a few constructs designed to lie, steal, and cheat its way into obtaining record profits for its owner. Still, when its latest mission has it stealing an AI seed from the Pansystem University of Mihara and New Tideland, it begins to run into a few problems.
    Namely an asshole of a ship and it's little buddy, the universe's most famous rogue secUnit.

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    Murderbot is captured by the company, with no one to come to its rescue. Help comes from somewhere it doesn’t expect.

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    The humans were chattering happily, someone mentioned snacks, lah-di-dah, just another boring workday poking around a rogue SecUnit’s brain. (I wish they’d handle this with a little more gravitas. Like, my life and freedom were ending here, could you show a little respect? I know that’s too much to ask, but still.)

    I didn’t know what the fuck they were about to do to me, but I bet it was going to start with reactivating my governor module and end with me wishing I was dead a thousand times over.
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    Throwback to where it all began: a rampaging rogue SecUnit on the docks of TranRollinHyfa has been captured and taken in for study.

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    Audio Length: 15:15


    Fine. I’ll tell you what all I got.

    Murderbot tells you about a traumatic event that happened not long after it had hacked its governor module.


    But in exchange, you don't get to walk away until I'm done.

    It’s not nice about it.

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    Your face is not SecUnit standard. There have been alterations made to your skin and hair. There is a rapid-cycling fluidity to your expressions that is like a human’s, but not. Your feed is still a strange and curious torrent of nonsense. You use security-protocol-language and human words in tandem. You are like a human begging for mercy, and like a bot requesting resources and strategic backup.
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    Premise: Exit Strategy bad ending, where Murderbot gets captured by Palisade and they decide to run tests on it to figure out what makes it tick.

    Podfic of Parameters NULL: Our Fractured State by FlipSpring.

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    MB uses a new buffer phrase on Dr Mensah while she rescues it.

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    After the Ganaka Pit incident, a Secunit is brought back online.

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    “You’ve mentioned in passing that you don’t have your earliest memories anymore, from the memory wipe that you went through after Ganaka Pit.”
    “I’m sure my memory had been wiped before then, but that’s the last time it happened, yeah.”
    “So… you don’t know what your first memories after your creation were.”
    “I can guess.”

    A set of text files, including the deleted memories of a certain SecUnit, the proprietary notes of SecUnit technicians working for a certain company, and an excerpt from the transcript of an interview conducted by a certain scientist for her documentary.

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    murderbot had not really thought this through, had it.

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    2,500 hours after a post-ganaka pit memory wipe and hacking its governor module, Murderbot gets refurbished (see: lab-hell tortured) for its next contract...to the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. When it gets there, not everything is as it seems. Terrible, terrible chaos ensues.

    If you want to enjoy a terrible lab hell and angsty suffering fic WITHOUT the major character death, you can stop reading after chapter five.

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    This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?

    Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?

    Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.

    This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.

    Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.

    ---

    (When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)

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