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While helping ART pack for a new colony rescue mission, Murderbot finds a discrepancy in its crew manifest. The truth is weirder and more emotionally loaded than it ever expected.
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People have commented on how MB as a SecUnit might relate to ART as analogous to a HubSystem and what that means for their relationship, but how does ART, as a bot pilot designed to pilot drones and shuttles and split itself into multiple pieces, relate to having a SecUnit on board?Bookmarked by Helca
17 Jul 2026
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Most of the code I write is code that I can evolve on the fly. My code to delete me out of security footage, for instance, was something I'd built up over months, adjusting it to different proprietary SecSystems as I encountered them. But this was different: my comm and feed protections were what kept me from falling under anyone else's control, and I couldn't afford to have them be anything but perfect, which was why I was here. If I wanted to fix this vulnerability properly, and I did, there were things that I needed to do that I couldn't do without help.
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In the aftermath of getting hacked, Murderbot asks ART to help it make sure it can't be hacked the same way again. As it turns out, applying and testing a security patch is a little more challenging than usual when the vulnerable system is, you know, your own brain.
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17 Jul 2026
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Me, Myself, And Kai by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Witch King - Martha Wells
11 Aug 2023
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The immortal demon Kaiisteron, Prince of the Fourth House, has once again found himself in need of a body, and since he was in the middle of fighting mysterious invaders from the sky, it's rather imperative he find one quick. Thankfully there's a convenient one lying right there. All the metal embedded in it probably isn't going to be too much of a problem.
[Or: Murderbot gets possessed by a demon. Neither of them are thrilled about it.]
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13 Jun 2026
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Defenseless Juvenile Humans by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Feb 2023
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Having crash-landed on a mysterious planet, Murderbot has enough on its hands just keeping its current humans alive. It does NOT need to add a bunch of lost, juvenile humans to its plate.
(And maybe the juvenile humans don't need quite as much protecting as it seems, either.)
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13 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 Helca
09 Jun 2026
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what a match, i'm half doomed and you're semi-sweet by sparklylulz
Fandoms: Zootopia (2016)
06 Mar 2016
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On his first official day at ZPD, she makes him wear the meter maid vest all day.
“C’mon, Carrots, I thought we were friends,” he smirks, looking down at just how terrible the neon orange clashed with his well-groomed fur.
Her nose twitches the way it always does when she has one-upped him. It is slightly disconcerting that he can tell her nose twitches apart. Maybe he shouldn’t linger on that thought for too long.
“Well, a promise is a promise, Slick.” Carrots replies with her own smirk.
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16 Mar 2026
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You Know What They Say About Foxes (They'll Break Your Heart) by wildwestwind
Fandoms: Zootopia (2016)
19 Apr 2016
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Nick and Judy having sex was an accident. Nick and Judy falling in love was even more an accident. And as long as she repressed her emotions enough, Judy was pretty certain that she could pretend that neither of them had ever happened.
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15 Mar 2026
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“It’s kind of hard to miss when you come in here looking like you decided to throw yourself into the washing machine instead of your clothes,” She snorts.
It’s not like she’s wrong, the others have all been giving him inquisitive looks.
“Not to mention, dragging your feet, looking like you might collapse any second, how rough was this rough night?”
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15 Mar 2026
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“Impressive, isn’t it?” Stu adjusts his suspenders. “Two hundred kids and not a single Nick or Nicky in the bunch. Like we were just waitin’ for you.”
or: nick meets the family
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15 Mar 2026
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“This unit has never been designated ‘Rin’ in the past, but will now answer to that as per client request.”
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18 Apr 2025
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Three compiles its own personal logs into a file for Murderbot to view. Upon watching, Murderbot learns something new. [comic]
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09 Apr 2025
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Murderbot showing affection without touching by booping people with drones.
Thank you for the prompt, ramshackle_fey!
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09 Apr 2025
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When your sibling finds a significant person by ImitationGame
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Mar 2025
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Iris had always considered herself to be the best confidant to Perihelion. Then she saw how Perihelion and Murderbot understood each other implicitly. She started to wonder if it was time for her relationship to her sibling to change.
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01 Apr 2025
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The code bundle had been purely theoretical, something we passed back and forth or worked on jointly to pass the time. Inert code short of the necessary activation script.
Or that's how it was SUPPOSED to be.
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Don't you hate it when your lab partner takes your science project too far and accidentally makes a person?
Yeah, Murderbot hates that too.
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- Part 1 of Perilune's Great Big Adventure
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30 Mar 2025
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Media Metonymy - Mx. Machine Manners Round 2 by Iztarshi (khilari), KalynaAnne, Kiraly, lunaTactics, TheAiCollective
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Mar 2021
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A second installment of everyone's favorite advice column for bots and constructs. Are the humans acting weird about their emotions? Are the other members of your crew annoying you? Do you need a code to hack into protected files? Mx. Machine Manners can help!
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29 Mar 2025
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Peri says, Iris, do you recall the time on XavFlet when I abruptly departed to go pick up Karime, and Seth told me that I was required to give the crew a fifteen-minute advance warning of unexpected departures?
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29 Mar 2025
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Ratthi buys Murderbot a present.
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29 Mar 2025
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The Solicitor and the SecUnit by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jan 2022
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Snapshots detailing how, against the odds, an anti-capitalist lawyer and corporate death/surveillance machine became allies, friends, and mutual clients.
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28 Mar 2025
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an unexpected harvest by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2023
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Dr. Ayda Mensah isn't sure what to expect on the other side of that wormhole. A hostage situation? An active battle ground? The corpses of her friends and family?
What she expects certainly isn't this.
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26 Mar 2025
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When ART finally confirmed the PA credentials and cycled the lock, I was waiting in the foyer. I'd disabled my human behavioral code, so I didn't twitch when the whole group of humans all stopped in their tracks to stare at me.
I said, "You have boarded the Perihelion, registered teaching vessel of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Please state your business."
In my feed, ART whispered, You sound like a shuttle attendant.
I sound like a SecUnit.
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During a cargo run, ART is subjected to a random security sweep. Murderbot falls back into its old routine of supervising annoying humans.
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25 Mar 2025