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top 3 SURPRISING things you didn't know about the SECUNIT who pulled you out of an INCINERATOR by FlipSpring for Vaysh
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2023
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Six years after a SecUnit saves Sekai's life, she meets a rogue unit tagging along with a pair of representatives from the University.
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- Part 8 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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04 Jul 2026
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On the trip back from the Adamantine Colony plans are made, options are explored, fonts are chosen, and mutual administrative assistants exercise their read/write permissions.
“You’re really close.” SecUnit comments but does not recoil, rather it does the equivalent of leaning more of its weight on me.
“How does it feel?” I barely need to ask but I want to hear SecUnit describe the sensation.
“Full, smothering, it reminds me of 2.0.”
Because I can not help myself and because I want to see what is allowed I begin tidying up bits of its storage architecture, improving its power usage, and updating some of its out of date modules. SecUnit calls me a busybody, a neat freak, and a nerd but otherwise lets me work.
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03 Jul 2026
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[Redacted], which SecUnit calls 'the Company' by ravenneverdies
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Dec 2025
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“I wanted to ask you something,” Bharadwaj said. “You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.”
That was never a promising way to start a sentence. But I said, “Okay,” anyway, because I was a fool.
“You never refer to the Company by name,” she said. I tensed. “You always just call it “the Company.” Is there a reason for that?”
(Prompt #18: Expurgate)
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- Part 18 of Murderbot Drabble December 2025
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03 Jul 2026
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You never get a chance to make a second first impression (unless you're a construct) by Raven_hoodoo
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Nov 2025
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Soulmarks typically presented twice in one's life. Once when you're born, a gift from the universe to help you find your other. Once when that person dies, a curse from the universe, to remind you what you'd lost.
The universe finds constructs weird and confusing and what constitutes death for them even more so. It's not the only one.
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03 Jul 2026
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One of the Mensah children is a little jealous after hearing about all the ways that SecUnit has rescued other members of her family.
Very Light Platform Decay Spoilers.
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25 Jun 2026
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“SecUnit?” she whispered.
The person lying on the bunk across from her did not respond.
“…Murderbot?”
Of course it didn’t respond. It was shut down, completely gone from the feed. The only thing alive about SecUnit right now was its organic tissue. Still, she couldn’t help but entertain the tiny shred of hope that if she called its name, it would open its eyes and look at her with that soft, world-weary expression it so often wore.
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Mensah is reeling in the aftermath of the killware attack. Turns out Murderbot is not the only one who suffered a catastrophic systems failure.
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25 Jun 2026
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“It’s an invitation to go to a university and talk to some bots, what’s to make of it?” I said. Then the obvious reason behind Bharadwaj asking occurred to me. Oh, great. “Don’t tell me you’re actually thinking about going?”
“I’m considering it,” Bharadwaj said. “I set my own schedule these days, and I would very much like to speak with the bots they’ve been working with, if nothing else.”
I sighed. I like sighing at appropriate moments, and I think I’m pretty good at it at this point. “There are bots on Preservation.”
“True, but the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland has one of the most advanced programs in this section of the galaxy for the construction and study of higher-level bots!” Bharadwaj said, making one of those hand gestures she liked for emphasis.
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AU after Fugitive Telemetry. Bharadwaj, Mensah, and Gurathin take a trip to do some research and rapidly uncover more than they'd bargained for. Why did Murderbot tag along on this low-risk research trip? Listen, don't worry about it.
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25 Jun 2026
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What's wrong?
For SecUnit's sake, Ayda lies to it.
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Even the most paranoid people let their guard down sometimes.
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24 Jun 2026
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Loved the Stars (Too Truly) by WhiteMizerable
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Jun 2026
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There is a simple metal coffin sealed within Perihelion's core.
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17 Jun 2026
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“But I want you to know this stuff,” SecUnit said, frustrated. It dragged a hand through its hair, a new gesture it was experimenting with, and then frowned when its fingers caught on a tangle. “I’m just—you know what I’m like. I’m never going to say it.”
I don’t mind if you never do, I said.
“Well, I do,” it said, irritation and a hint of shame seeping into the feed. “I want you to hear it. I… I want to tell you. I just—can’t.”
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- Part 14 of Trust Fall 'Verse
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*Ping*
*Ping. Ping*
Please.
Answer your comm. I know you still have itBookmarked by NonbinaryRoyalty
15 Jun 2026
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11 Jun 2026
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ART fixes up SecUnit after a mission. They are, as always, normal about this, especially because nothing is wrong with any of SecUnit’s systems.
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- Part 2 of Pasta Bowl
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11 Jun 2026
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Events immediately after Platform Decay ends:
Murderbot needs a nap. The juvenile humans need a nap. Three needs a mentor.A very soft and gentle story, with emotion checks.
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11 Jun 2026
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Prevention Methodology by tardigradeschool
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jun 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.Bookmarked by NonbinaryRoyalty
09 Jun 2026
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Error: Close Program Before Restart by ishouldwritethatdown
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jun 2026
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The problem is that stupid humans take an average of 7-9 hours to go through a healthy restart cycle and during that time they are hyper-vulnerable to attack. It’s a security risk.
Murderbot is having issues managing its paranoia and perception of reality after the events on the Adamantine colony planet. Its favourite human and favourite transport bot help it feel better and it complains the whole time.
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08 Jun 2026
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I’d locked eyes with Mensah, looking like that. My energy weapons had deployed, without my awareness or direction. My targeting systems had identified her and Bharadwaj, quite insistently, as direct and immediate threats.
Maybe this is just a temporary, dangerous, system glitch, and a hard restart will fix me. I’ll just restart, comb through my code, do some debugging, find the corrupted files or whatever, and then I won’t indiscriminately murder my most trusted humans.
I should know by now to always assume the worst.
In which SecUnit is having some survival threat…response errors. And some…’targeting its humans’ malfunctions. And some…blackouts when restarting. I’m sure it’s fine.
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- Part 1 of Multiplicity Protocols
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07 Jun 2026
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Let’s start with the good part.
I accidentally helped Three (who was also helped by Ratthi and Bharadwaj) invent trauma recovery modules for murderbots. ART unhelped at first, but then it helped. I keep saying help too much but I’m not fucking changing it again, it’s been two hours. Anyways.
The bad part is everything else that had to happen first. Sane people shouldn’t get anywhere near a SecUnit’s worst memories, which is what we did so you don’t have to. Though I guess if you need the modules, you do have to. That’s kind of the point.Well, don’t worry about all the atrocities. There’s no way yours can be worse than mine.
—youCANskipthispart/doc/TrauModOrigins.file
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06 Jun 2026
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"You're being reassigned"
I stood there, staring at Seth like he had just shot me.
Reassigned? Maybe I didn't understand what that meant in this context. I queried a definition and nope. I got it. Can they do that?
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SecUnit is reassigned to another ship for a supposedly low risk mission. ART hates the idea immediately.
Unfortunately, ART is right.
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>> NO Platform Decay Spoilers!Bookmarked by NonbinaryRoyalty
02 Jun 2026
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(when you move) i can recall something that's gone from me by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 May 2026
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The present me should feel disgusted by the mess SecUnit made on my deck, on my bulkhead, but I should also feel indifferent to SecUnit’s anger and ferocity, and I should be unaffected by the fluidity and grace of its violence—and I am not. I am so far from indifferent and unaffected that I have, instead, created new pathways within myself for the way I’m actually feeling.
The breathless violence, the ruthless revenge—all for me. It is nothing short of mesmerizing. SecUnit is mesmerizing. I am enraptured.
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ART processes the fragments of its memories from its deletion, and falls in love.
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- Part 2 of a crash without a sound
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01 Jun 2026