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    Turnaround Time (TAT)
    [noun]
    The total duration from the making of a request to its completion and delivery.

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    Finally, with palpable resignation, ART asked, 'What do you need, Secunit?'

    I pushed myself off of the wall and walked to the nearest medical table. Slowly and deliberately, as though the beat of my central circulatory pumps wasn’t pounding in my ears, I turned around and leaned back onto my hands. The small of my back came to rest against the edge of the platform. When I tilted my head all the way back and found the lens of ART’s camera, my mouth split into a smile that I hadn’t planned.

    I said, “You.”

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    05 Jul 2026

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    I come back from the dead.

    Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?

    "What's going on?" I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. "What the fuck is going on—"

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    [ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]

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    05 Jul 2026

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    "It was during one of my missions that I said I wouldn’t feel too upset if Supervisor Leonide died in front of me. Then she actually did die in front of me, and it turns out I got a little upset."

    Janity's father appears to be hunting her down. Murderbot doesn't feel responsible for her, and is helping for completely unrelated reasons.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    "Is this about their latest SecUnit rescue subject?" ART asked. Nosy fucker; I should have known it would have bullied the other bot pilot for details.

    "SecUnit extraction," I corrected, to be pedantic. Or is it pediatric? Whatever, I wasn't going to ask.

    "So it is about that project?" ART plowed forward. "I am not surprised they want your input. You are one of the more valuable information sources they have."

    "I just feel like they're setting themselves up for failure," I admitted. "Their newly freed SecUnits keep trying to self-destruct."

    There was a .5 second pause. In the feed, it felt like an eternity. "I see," ART said, not sounding so smug anymore. "Yes, that is distressing."
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    Or, the first (sort of) organized suicide prevention effort for SecUnits.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    For an upcoming documentary, Dr. Bharadwaj has a conversation with a rogue ComfortUnit about his life, his perspectives, and how he stole his freedom.

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