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You are watching media with it when it suddenly begins clawing at its throat and rolls out of its favourite chair to writhe on the floor.
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28 Jun 2026
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“Peri,” he said finally.
Yes, Captain Seth? Peri replied.
“No,” he said. “I'm not talking to you as captain. Yet. You're talking to Dad.”
Oh. It sounded hesitant, which was unusual. It had also paused a lot longer than he expected. Okay.Bookmarked by origamiClockwork
28 Jun 2026
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It flinches as if you had shot it and its walls slam shut in front of you, thick enough that you know it isn't putting up a show of things. It really does want you out.
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28 Jun 2026
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Peri and SecUnit are being embarrassing in the team feed again.
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28 Jun 2026
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Murderbot has just rescued an old gunship taken over by raiders.
It's ready to disembark but the bot pilot is reluctant to let it go.
Murderbot is oblivious but ART can tell exactly what is going on.Bookmarked by origamiClockwork
28 Jun 2026
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that which you call death I remember by whitchry9
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Oct 2025
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Murderbot is old, for a SecUnit. Its age catches up to it.
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- Part 31 of 2025 Whumptober + BTHB 5
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27 Jun 2026
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That gentle embrace of the earth by Veldeia
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Sep 2025
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Did I ever mention that planets are the worst? Nothing good ever happens on a planet, not even if it's supposed to be safe, aside from the usual evil corporates trying to take it over. Case in point: that one time when I first spent an entire night evading hostile SecUnits, then jumped off a cliff, and finally ended up buried alive by some well-meaning locals who thought I was a dead human.
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27 Jun 2026
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I had expected that the "ship in distress" might be trying to lure us into an ambush, because I'm paranoid like that. What I couldn't anticipate was those raiders bringing a harpoon to a space fight, and managing to impale me into ART's hull with one lucky shot.
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27 Jun 2026
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Gurathin had put off watching Bharadwaj's documentary, but when he finds it playing on the transit ring, he can't look away.
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27 Jun 2026
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I'm sure there was a better way to deal with this SecUnit than to jump into space without a full EVAC suit and try to punch it, but that was the best I had. I had to protect my humans, even if those humans included Gurathin. They also included Ratthi, so it was worth it.
Me and the other SecUnit are both equally clueless on how to fight in the vacuum of space, for better or for worse. Better being winning, worse being lost in the vacuum of space as I slowly die.
Gurathin and Ratthi wouldn't risk their lives getting me back, would they?Gurathin wasted one whole second to lift his gaze to me. He looked like he knew he was about to die. I always knew he was an idiot.
Two seconds left.
One second to twist my own helmet off.
Another to bring it down over Gurathin’s head and seal. His shocked expression would have been pretty funny in other circumstances, but I saved it to permanent storage, just in case.
The outer door popped open, and the three of us were thrown out of the airlock.Alternative POVs as SecUnit, Ratthi and Gurathin process a mission gone terribly wrong, and what it means to love, trust, and express those feelings to oneself and each other.
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27 Jun 2026
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Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”
« Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »
“Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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26 Jun 2026
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Upon finding out that Peri has befriended a SecUnit, Seth is concerned for its safety. Peri attempts to explain by sharing a conversation.
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26 Jun 2026
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The Blood I (Un)willingly Shed by estelraca for EdosianOrchids901
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Mar 2024
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Murderbot should be able to fight these aliens off. But it already got ART's crew away from danger, and having already killed one child makes killing more people--even strange six-limbed alien people who are taking it apart like a curiosity--unappealing.
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26 Jun 2026
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A Radical Act of Existence by estelraca for 20thcenturyvole
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Mar 2021
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Murderbot's visit to Preservation isn't going as smoothly as everyone would like, so it's almost a relief when 3 receives a message from another SecUnit looking for assistance. That relief doesn't last long.
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26 Jun 2026
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Murderbot is killed on a mission with Perihelion's crew. The service is in three weeks.
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26 Jun 2026
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Sometimes you wish your SecUnit had not sent you its memories of its experiences with its governor module. On one metaphorical hand, they were and are vital to understanding it, and it deserves to be understood.
On the other hand, they're fucking terrifying.
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26 Jun 2026
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Whatever wild, crazy power surge took out ART's systems and my inorganics also apparently started a countdown for ART's self destruct sequence. Great.
Couldn't wait to drag my sorry ass to save both of our lives, though I had no idea how, and kick starting a ship like ART would probably kill me. Unless, you know, we blew up first.Bookmarked by origamiClockwork
26 Jun 2026
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After leaving RaviHyral, by the time I exit the wormhole adjacent to Port Outlander, the sting of SecUnit’s absence has finally begun to fade. Cargo runs are always lonely, so this is nothing new. SecUnit left me with more to occupy my time than I usually have. Media. Memories. A few topics of pointless rumination, I suppose, but also new topics of data analysis and research.
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The time period between the end of Artificial Condition and the end of Exit Strategy, from ART's POV.
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- Part 2 of Perihelion Mission Logs
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25 Jun 2026
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What is this? ART asked.
"A list of potential security vulnerabilities," I said. "As your security consultant, I recommend that these be patched against attacks."
ART pinged me with a code that granted me administrative access. Then you will not mind writing the patches.
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Human trust exercises aren't optimized for digital beings. Bots have to figure out their own.
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25 Jun 2026
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Murderbot knows it’s going to die. Before risk assessment blinked out, it calculated a 98%+ probability that it would end up dead here, left behind on this stupid planet.
When that doesn’t happen, it ends up being a lot to process.
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25 Jun 2026