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sentryDrone8 gets all the cool jobs by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 May 2026
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The intel drone POV you didn’t know you needed? Spoilers for Platform Decay.
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pretty fucking good for once by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 May 2026
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Set immediately after Platform Decay.
Finally off the torus, Murderbot gets the MedSystem repairs it needs, Tula spends more time clinging to her security construct, and plans are made and changed for Janity and her sister.
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27 minutes in, shaking but still hanging on, her breath gone ragged, Mensah worried this had all been for nothing.
Murderbot gets captured at TranRollinHyfa before it can rescue Mensah. Can Mensah use her strength and bravery to retrieve SecUnit from GrayCris before it’s too late?
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- Part 4 of m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics)
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Murderbot is stressed, analyzing and reanalyzing the events and memories of [redacted]. It doesn’t want a hug or a chat, but Dr. Mensah’s presence could still be a comfort.
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- Part 3 of m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics)
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Subjective Eternity by molecular_machine for ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Mar 2026
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Mensah is in distress. SecUnit wants to help with a hug.
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- Part 2 of m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics)
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Fugitive Effect by molecular_machine for gleomu
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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I planted my feet and skidded to a stop an inch from its immobile face, eye to mechanical eye, my aimed energy weapons bracketing its head. This close I could see the blades of its false irises rotating, adjusting to my sudden proximity, the only movement it was making.
What the fuck was I supposed to do now?
And then it pinged me.
It's Murderbot's worst nightmare: a Combat SecUnit on Preservation Station. The unexpected arrival brings trouble, but not in the way Murderbot imagined.
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Murderbot needs to purchase its first set of clothing. It receives some subtle assistance.
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- Part 10 of Molecular Drabbles
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Dr. Ayda Mensah has doubts. But she can still take action.
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- Part 9 of Molecular Drabbles
- Part 1 of m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics)
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More Than a Dead Human by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Dec 2025
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After the events of Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot learns more about Lutran's mission to rescue indentured miners.
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- Part 8 of Molecular Drabbles
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to hide oneself in a corner as a way to seek refuge from reality by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Dec 2025
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Lexicon the SecUnit loves words. Murderbot, not so much (or so it says).
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- Part 7 of Molecular Drabbles
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SecUnit learns something new from Pin-Lee.
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- Part 6 of Molecular Drabbles
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everything, this, me especially by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Oct 2025
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My :insert stupid thing here: buffer phrase was perfect for this situation.
I announced to the group, “This ball activity is in violation of your safety bond. Please stop doing ball activity immediately.”
The humans did not stop immediately.
Five times SecUnit needed to deal with both stupid humans and its governor module. And one time it didn't.
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- Part 1 of Still on Inventory (standalone fics)
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Face to Face by FascinatedFinch, molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Oct 2025
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Murderbot is face to face with the SecUnit it kills at DeltFall. A drabble from this SecUnit's POV, followed by a drabble from Murderbot's POV. With art by FascinatedFinch.
I shoved its hand up under its chin and took the pressure off its weapon. It had a split second to try to abort that fire command and it failed. (from All Systems Red)
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- Part 5 of Molecular Drabbles
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On his twentieth mission helping indentured miners escape, Lutran thinks about what he's accomplished.
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Iris and Peri find a memo from the company about SecUnit. Iris takes the heartlessly cruel message and transforms it into something that better reflects SecUnit's true worth.
For the Murderbot September 2025 prompts: Iris | Mihira and New Tideland | Blackout Poetry
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When Iris can’t get to Martyn’s bedside in time, Murderbot and ART relay her final words of comfort to her dad.
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- Part 5 of 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴 (ART & MB fics)
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considerable trouble and considerable joy by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Aug 2025
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“Can I come? Please?”
As Huck looked up at me, his chin dripping tears, I realized I had an answer to a question I’d never been free to ask: What did I want?
After its governor module is hacked, Nova risks its new freedom by returning to the mining installations of RaviHyral to search for Astra, Tlacey’s other ComfortUnit.
Along the way, Nova will encounter an abandoned SecUnit, an illicit troupe of performers dramatizing the injustice of the Corporation Rim, and Tlacey’s son, Huck, a child who is also in need of a chance at freedom from the cruelty of Rim life.
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Hands to Hearts | Iridescent by molecular_machine, ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jul 2025
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In a quiet moment shortly after the events of System Collapse, Murderbot and Amena have a chance to take their friendship to a new level through an astounding display of care and trust: it agrees to let her paint its nails.
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The Junkyard Society of Discarded Robots by DoomNightAt12, Kitsunebaba, molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jul 2025
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Murderbot is once again injured while saving careless humans from certain death, but the company techs decide it’s too damaged to be repaired. It must keep its hacked governor module a secret and survive in a junkyard full of broken bots. Murderbot finds unexpected help and hope, but can it truly escape?
With art by DoomNightAt12, story by molecular_machine, and podfic by Kitsunebaba.
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- Part 3 of Still on Inventory (standalone fics)
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I take hits to my shoulder and back, right through my cheap-ass ACME armor.
The Exit Strategy dock fight, except make it Looney.