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I don’t know how to explain this to her, SecUnit tells me, and dumps a massive metadata file at me. I’m not sure what it expects me to do to help until I open the file. It’s comprised entirely of tagged interactions between SecUnit and Dr. Mensah.
This log is deeply personal, and I take great care with it as I move through the data. There’s the first time Mensah spoke to SecUnit directly, the way she made it feel like a person for the first time; there’s a moment on a shuttle where Mensah’s looking up at it, unafraid of its rage; there’s an office, people strew on the floor and a deep relief as Mensah meets SecUnit’s gaze; there’s a hundred little moments, flashes of interactions saved in a permanent archive filled with mutual respect, gratitude, care. I think of earlier, when I wanted to share with SecUnit what my love for my family feels like, but I realize know that it already knows.
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ART and Murderbot learn some new emotions.
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- Part 3 of a crash without a sound
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05 Jul 2026
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I had several drones and all of ART’s cameras in this room on her. Somehow it still wasn’t enough, so I shifted my eyes from the wall to her, too. I captured her every detail, from the light brown hair curling on her head, to the laughter lines on her face, and the calm and sure way she held herself, even if she was still troubled by the traumatic experiences GrayCris put her through.
I would see her again, but I didn’t know when, so I made sure to save this image in my permanent storage. I had a special folder where I kept files on all of my humans.
Murderbot says goodbye to Mensah.
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05 Jul 2026
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After fleeing the massacre at DeltFall Group, the crew are left with emotional scars, a heavily damaged SecUnit, and even worse problems than before.
Gurathin is finally going to get the answers he's been looking for. But now the whole crew will be left with a bigger question: what comes next?
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This work covers the time in All Systems Red/Season 1 from when the crew return from the DeltFall Group site up to the point in the book where they flee their habitat. It follows immediately after "Searching for Answers" and is best read after those chapters.Mind the tags.
Additional details for self-harm at the start of the relevant chapter. If you have been reading this series since the first part then 1) Thank you very much! and 2) The self-harm in this work isn't like that. If it is something you want to skip, please read the chapter note when you get there.
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- Part 7 of Perceptive, Observant, Vigilant
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04 Jul 2026
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natural as the seasons by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Oct 2022
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After a mission, SecUnit comes to visit Dr. Mensah on the farm.
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26 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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22 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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22 Jun 2026
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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20 May 2026
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Critical Repairs in Progress. Do Not Shut Down the Unit While I Am Still Fixing It (This Means You) by MuddyHyena
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Mar 2026
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In which Murderbot is critically injured and ART refuses to let go.
Murderbot POV.
Guaranteed happy ending after we are done suffering. Guaranteed no fic abandonment unless I'm hit by a bus.
This is very indulgent hurt/comfort.
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18 May 2026
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SecUnit's job on TranRollinHyfa is rather boring—until it's assigned to watch over Dr. Mensah, who has just been kidnapped by GrayCris after a survey went very wrong.
Being on separate sides doesn't stop Dr. Mensah from treating it like a person, and soon SecUnit finds itself grappling with emotions, free will, and what it means to be someone trying to help.
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17 May 2026
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At the start of their survey, PreservationAux watches as their SecUnit is unpacked from its crate. Immediately, the team decides that it is Friend Shaped, and they're going to show it the Respect and Kindness it deserves.
(Mild AU of All Systems Red where the gang decides to try and befriend their SecUnit as soon as they land, before any lives are in danger. Whether it likes it or not. Got Loved Idiot. Primarily Mensah POV)
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15 May 2026
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Murderbot Diaries Drabble December by lovinglylightbulbs
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Dec 2025
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tmbd drabbles wahoo!
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13 May 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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Gurathin is welcomed aboard the Perihelion for Ratthi's birthday dinner party.
Perihelion itself is not so thrilled.
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11 May 2026
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Snow / Storm by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2026
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Planets are dumb and dangerous, but at this point I'd argued— okay, more like complained— complargued so many times that nobody except ART was still willing to argufy back.
(That stands for argue-pacify, in case it isn't obvious. I think it's not obvious. And no, I hadn't forgiven ART yet for saying I needed pacifying.)
Anyway, I was currently complarguing from my seat in the back of the snow-capable bot-driven transport heading out to the middle of nowhere, so I had the sneaking suspicion I'd lost the fight.
Murderbot accompanies its humans on a winter vacation. Then the storm hits.
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11 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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This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.
Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
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17 Apr 2026
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Most people are aware of the fact that they have a soul prior to meeting their soulmate.
We aren’t most people.
(Part 1: A partial retelling of Artifical Condition from ART’s POV, wherein everyone’s favourite asshole research transport discovers 1. That it has a soul, and 2. That it has a soulmate. It handles this news completely rationally.
Part 2: A partial retelling of Network Effect, Murderbot POV, where it also has some uncomfortable realizations.)Bookmarked by vvoop
13 Apr 2026
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Murderbot thinks having friends is difficult. It has a good conversation with Dr. Mensah following the events of System Collapse.
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12 Apr 2026
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Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
27 Mar 2026
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
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27 Mar 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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26 Mar 2026