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Murderbot helps distract ART during an upgrade it has been dreading.
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24 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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23 Jun 2026
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No Way Home but Forward by Ink (InkboundLore), InkboundLore
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
08 Jun 2026
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Grace is supposed to save Earth, but the Hail Mary has crashed on Erid. The Eridians are not dying. They do not need him. But one of them, Rocky, chooses him anyway.
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14 Jun 2026
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you weren't there that day for the Naming of Things by callmearcturus
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Jun 2026
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"Rocky did not understand human names and titles when we met. Eridian names longer, give information on Eridian's home, associations, skills." For the first time in ages, he positioned two of his arms together, forming the design that Grace thought of like a family crest, a single design bisected.
"You should teach me to read those before we get to Erid, so I can be polite." As Grace considered the linework, already picking up on some vague ideas from the shapes in Rocky's carapace, something else occurred to him. "So… I picked 'Rocky' because your outer shell looks like stone."
"And for inspirational story of athlete who defeats human system of poverty to become great champion. Eye of the tiger."
"Retroactively, yeah." Grace bent at the hips, getting to Rocky's 'eye' level. "So what'd you name me?"
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12 Jun 2026
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Grace has to handle First Contact with an alien planet with what meager Eridian his one set of vocal chords can make.
This Is Fine. This is totally, completely, utterly fine.(Grace sounds like a pebble. This, alongside Eridian's extended lifespans, kicks off a chain of misunderstandings that Grace would find utterly mortifying if he knew what the heck was going on.)
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11 Jun 2026
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Submersion Injury by Lohikäärme (Myxinidae)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jun 2026
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You are currently nearly five minutes late for our planned rendezvous, and have been incommunicado for seven minutes prior. Our contingency plan dictates that should you be more than ten minutes late to our rendezvous, the rest of the crew and myself will leave you behind to escape on your own. Fortunately for you, I think this plan is stupid.
Murderbot disappears on a mission. Three finds it and brings it back to life.
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09 Jun 2026
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Falling Asleep by VerenaKauer
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
04 Jun 2026
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I’ll figure something out. Something else. I have the best lab in the world (or, well, the best lab ever made on Earth), I have all the reference materials a guy could want, I am smart and I have a very smart friend who is very dedicated to keeping me alive. I’ll be alright. I’ll find a way. I’ll—
“If you awake,” Rocky says suddenly, startling me again. “You say ‘if you awake’. There is another option, question?”
…Have I mentioned that he is very smart?
Sometimes it’s not a good thing!
Or: going into a coma on the way to Erid might be Grace's best shot at survival. No one on the ship likes the idea.
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05 Jun 2026
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In which Murderbot reviews security footage, successfully avoids one of two uncomfortable conversations, and has a breakthrough in [redacted].
This story takes place immediately after the last scene of Platform Decay.
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12 May 2026
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SPOILERS FOR PLATFORM DECAY.
God hands you a bible one day on the torus that used to be the only thing you ever knew.
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06 May 2026
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Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by BlatantBookworm
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2026
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I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
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Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
Mostly positive.
Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
(Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
(It’s still pretty positive.)Series
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01 May 2026
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Regulations and Standards by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2026
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Sam 15 starts a new indenture at an industrial platform on asteroid ST-234o23iu4. // SecUnit9123 does its job as the lone SecUnit on duty while XtraCor chews up workers and spits them out—until it can't anymore.
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18 Apr 2026
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ART?
SecUnit. Stand and return casualties to the shuttle.
It sends me a map of directions, marking the bodies around its corridors.
ART, say something. Call me an idiot, please.
SecUnit. Apply a 5% correction.
This can’t be happening. I shouldn’t have done this, we should have fought to the death instead. I’ve made a terrible mistake.
They installed a governor module on it.
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On a routine cargo run, Barish-Estranza captures and installs a governor module on ART. Can Murderbot find a way to save ART and itself?
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09 Apr 2026
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Following a disastrous battle and a brutal encounter with an enemy, Marius is left severely injured amongst the dead. He has little hope for a peaceful death and even less for rescue. All he can do is wait and watch the world around him, including the ominous woods lying just out of reach.
And from those woods he can see something approaching. Something large and otherworldly.
And he knows it sees him too.
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05 Apr 2026
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Formerly rich spoiled brat Elizabeth Conway is the last woman on Earth. After months completely alone, she wakes up with a startling and disgusting realization.
This is a psychological horror story with some intense themes of abuse, so mind the tags.
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30 Mar 2026
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Gender is a Construct But This Construct is Not Gendered by heavyshadows
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Jul 2025
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We had (somehow) survived GrayCris. There was just one problem. My humans kept calling me he now.
I didn’t know what to make of this. It made me feel like they weren’t quite seeing me. Like at the beginning of the survey, when I first saved Bharadwaj and they started acting all team-y around me. But from the way they had talked, it was clear they didn’t understand what a SecUnit was. Instead, it was like I was their pet bot. It wasn’t until I blew LeeBeeBee’s head off that they realized they had been trying to befriend a murderbot. They saw me for what I was; a killing machine.
When they said he, I hated it. It made my organics flinch. My performance reliability dropped a percentage each time. And it felt like the pet bot incident all over again; like they weren’t seeing me, but what they wanted to see. I didn’t want to be their pet bot, but I didn’t want to have to act like I was human either. Especially not some human man. Is that how they saw me? Is that what I would have to be now on Preservation?
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In which Murderbot struggles with stupid human assumptions about gender, has a heart-to-heart with its favorite human, and submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known.Bookmarked by Leximuth
27 Mar 2026
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Let My Walls Come Down by IndulgentDiscourse
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jan 2026
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During PSUMNT spring break, ART is inspired by shitty rom coms to do something risky. Secunit, besides its better judgement, plays along. It goes as well as you'd expect.
We watched the character scramble around onscreen for a few more minutes before ART spoke again. "I know it is foolish of me, but sometimes I am almost… jealous, I suppose, of some of the experiences Iris was able to have while growing up."
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25 Mar 2026
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It was supposed to be a low risk trip, and Dr Mensah had convinced SecUnit that everything would be fine. Then it finds out that everything was most assuredly not fine.
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- Part 9 of Mensah and Murderbot March 2026
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24 Mar 2026
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Feed Address: Not Found by Scarlet_Tanager
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Sep 2025
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When Three is seriously injured on a routine mission, SecUnit is forced to re-evaluate its stance on friendship
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- Part 1 of Feed Address: Searching...
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22 Mar 2026
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and the world will align itself again by AllieTheBard for ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
08 Mar 2026
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A short AU fic where Mensah comes from the Corporation Rim.
There was a person standing by the dumpster. It was still enough that Ayda Mensah, laborer 2nd class, did a double-take, wondering whether she was looking at some weird mannequin.
Instincts told her to get the hell out and throw the trash out later, but because of that curiosity that never quite left her, despite everything, she took a couple more steps forward. It looked like a person, with skin, hair, and everything, but the stillness was not natural.
A SecUnit. Or a ComfortUnit. Left in the garbage.
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09 Mar 2026
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Do Not Delete Without Prior Authorization From the Following Vessel by MuddyHyena
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Mar 2026
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The plan had one obvious flaw.
Without my ART memories I wouldn't know that I needed to get those memories back from Gurathin. I wouldn't remember sending them to him. Which meant trusting Gurathin to realize what had happened and fix it for me.
Fucking Gurathin.
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I would like to shout out "An Unexpected Quarter" by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly and the "NULLverse" series by flipspring for inspiring elements of this story.
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02 Mar 2026