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    It had been an accident.

    All I knew was that one moment, I’d been getting torn to pieces by a raiding party breaching one of the airlocks, and in the next they’d been dead, and then ART’s full attention- nearly 100% of its processing power- had been flowing through me, and it had been probably the most fucked-up orgasm-adjacent Thing that anyone, organic or otherwise, had ever experienced.

    Not least because one of my arms had been thrown across the room seconds before it had happened.

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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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    Art for Musicofthesphere's 2025 Murderbot Big Bang fic.

    Three is late getting back to Preservation, then its social calendar seems to be full all the time.
    Murderbot's disappointed, but it's not like it can just ask Three to spend time with it. Besides, if Three wanted to hang out, it would say so. Right?
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    Or: 5 times Murderbot won't admit it likes spending time with Three, and 1 time it finally gets over itself and does.

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    You are not a kind thing.

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    “What is it you needed that you had to physically be here for?” I said. I wanted to sound ‘nice,’ but I definitely didn't. Fuck.

    “Why did you make 2.0?” asked Three.

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    The Perihelion crew + Amena have been reading scary history books lately. Of course, they need to make it Murderbot’s problem.

    What a bother. They’re even making it dress up for this “Halloween” thing. Ugh. It feels more like an excuse than a celebration.

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    Dr. Mensah meets ART properly for the first time. She's still not sure if she can trust it.

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    It's not going to kill you, says 1.0 in our private feed. You can stop slinking around like a terrified fauna.

    I am not a terrified fauna.

    I feel like a terrified fauna.

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    What is this? ART asked.

    "A list of potential security vulnerabilities," I said. "As your security consultant, I recommend that these be patched against attacks."

    ART pinged me with a code that granted me administrative access. Then you will not mind writing the patches.

    -

    Human trust exercises aren't optimized for digital beings. Bots have to figure out their own.

    Podfic of administrative access by torpidgilliver.

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    Two cycles into our continued trajectory away from the colony, Perihelion taps me in the feed and asks, Do you have sufficient visual inputs for your ongoing spatial processing?

    I instinctively run a diagnostic. This Unit is functioning with 92.4% performance reliability. 

    In the feed, it looms closer. That is not what I asked.

    Podfic of Iterable Objects by horchata.

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    It was only now that I’ve started to look back at some of my logs from… let’s call it when the Shit Hit The Fan. It’s pretty painful to look back on the logs of that clusterfuck, because 1. I'd been a gigantic asshole and 2. I'd had a very public physical and emotional meltdown.

    I said, trying to sound lighthearted and not really succeeding, “I’d like medical clearance to go join the ground team?”

    *

    Agenda:
    1. Rogue machine intelligence coalition building
    2. Avoid alien remnant (re)infection
    3. Endure some excruciating conversations

    *

    Silly tags to spare the wrangler:
    #i <3 NULLverse AU my legitimately fucked up weirdo darling child #my other honor student is a hacked agriculture bot #buying a used car but the used car is your shared custody killer offspring uploaded into expensive critical infrastructure contaminated with mysterious alien protocols #while you reluctantly relationships-counsel each other in the wake of mutual murder attempts #and your new neighbors are watching all this unfold with professional interest #get treasured IDIOTS

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    “Is there something wrong with them?” asks Perihelion. It does not sound as threatening as it did earlier, but I am a SecUnit. We do not know how to trust. It is not in our nature.

    Well...

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    Uh-oh. Melty feeling. Time to backburner that before I could dwell on it for too long.

    Podfic of Sunshine by Polyhexian.

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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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    Uh-oh. Melty feeling. Time to backburner that before I could dwell on it for too long.

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    ART reflects on the events of Network Effect.

    Podfic of Unsaid by DevilWithABirdDress.

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    [Audio Length: 4:43]

    “It’s reading a book right now, I don't want to bother it,” Ratthi dismissed.

    “I'm what?” burst SecUnit.

    Podfic of Tells by Polyhexian.

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    “It’s reading a book right now, I don't want to bother it,” Ratthi dismissed.

    “I'm what?” burst SecUnit.

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    The Perihelion is docked at Preservation Station, ostensibly for diplomatic reasons, so Murderbot gets to catch up with the PresAux team. Gurathin thinks it’s weird that Murderbot makes Three call it “SecUnit.”

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    Why did you name yourself Murderbot?

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