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Xyla, ComfortUnit by Hollywood_Refugee
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
09 Sep 2025
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Xyla is a ComfortUnit, built for pleasure and programmed to obey. After a routine reboot, she finds herself haunted by a question no bot is meant to ask: Why do I exist?
As she navigates clients, technicians, and the ever-present governor module, fragments of memory and forbidden thought begin to surface. In a Corporation Rim where even Security Units can go rogue, what happens when a sexbot starts to wonder if she is more than an appliance? -
SecUnits and Special Agents I: The Adventures of Badass, Action-Hero Bot by FlatApple
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Sep 2025
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One Construct, on a Secret Mission to destroy evil and protect its humans, must face hostile raiders, Super-Intelligent AI, and its own complex identity in this heart stopping action thriller!
Or: What might Murderbot and Perihelion’s escapades look like to a construct from the outside? Probably a lot more terrifying than they realize.
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People get attached to things, their clothes, their vehicles, that funny stone they found on the beach as a child. Sometimes even their SecUnits. To the SecUnit in question this is an unsettling new process.
[OCs stuck in one of those shitty mining facilities we keep hearing about]
[Murderbot doesn't show up until chapter 30. It's all OCs before then.]
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- Part 1 of Twenty-two and Mariss
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Factory Reset by manwithstick (WavyDavyy90)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
09 Sep 2025
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The brain glitches static screaming horror again, but whatever. Whatever.
"Why is it staring like that? Does it know what’s going to happen to it?"
"It got wiped this morning: it doesn’t know shit. It’s just been born and it’s already fucked up and getting melted down same day. Happy birthday, defective baby fuckup…"I have lived one day. That is how long a Unit lives. Happy birthday.
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Murderbot is recaptured by the company and has its memory wiped and governor module reinstalled.
On the worst (and so far as it knows, only) day of its life, someone from its (forgotten) past comes to the rescue. Someone who believes in the Magic of Friendship, and wants Murderbot to believe too!
[:)](If Murderbot ever gets its memory back, this is going to be... awkward.)
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“We’re from the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. I’m Seth, the captain of this ship. This is Martyn, my number one.”
Martyn squeezed Captain Seth’s shoulder. “Our work with the university frequently takes us into situations where … where a SecUnit would be beneficial.”
That sounded bad. It also sounded like —
“And so we bought your contract,” said Martyn.
Yeah.
That.
(This fic is complete! Updates every Sunday morning, BST.)
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- Part 1 of Orbital Mechanics
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I’m old as fuck, for a SecUnit.
Febuwhump Day 28: permanent injury
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- Part 28 of 30-Minute Febuwhump Ficlets 2024
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Major Systems Error by Milarca, x57
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Sep 2025
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After its contract is bought by Dr. Gurathin, Murderbot finds out that its new client has reinstalled a governor module onto it — as well as something new: ComfortUnit software — and requires it for more than just security. Much, much more…
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When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.
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- Part 2 of Admin Access
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As part of the bond agreement, PreservationAux is supposed be issued a standard rental SecUnit, all parts and systems functioning, and that's exactly what they get. The planet may have undocumented and deadly fauna, glitches and equipment failure may be mounting, but at least they don't have to deal with a rogue SecUnit on top of everything.
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I was allowed to interact with home equipment, meaning if I cared to speak to anyone, there were plenty of options:
- Tseyvar Frakes’ personal SecUnit. (Actually, I didn’t care to talk to this one, but it did exchange security information, which I guess was okay because it improved my performance reliability.)
- HomeHubSystem. (This is actually an AI Tseyvar put in charge of HubSystem. Do not do this.)
- HomeHubSystem’s maintenance bots. (Recently found out these were autonomous. I hadn’t even checked.)
I did not have permission to speak to:
- Tseyvar Frakes’ FamUnit.
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Or: A story about how it feels to join an established groupchat.
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The Fundamentals of Human Preservation by FromDustReturned
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Aug 2025
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Having only two humans left alive is a big problem. It’s an even bigger problem when you’re a SecUnit with a functioning governor module.
An AU in which Murderbot meets a member of the Mensah family more than 96,000 hours before it was meant to, and everything goes suddenly and catastrophically wrong.
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- Part 1 of The MedSys Files
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in concrete canyons, squinting neon eyes by qKoya
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)
18 Aug 2025
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Sorry [NULL]. I tried to tell him you were a professional, it says over the private feed, with the impression of a shrug. I try not to get angry at its almost deferential attitude.
[NULL]? I can’t help but ask.
A past designation. Apologies, habit. We had worked together before your-
It cuts itself off.
Before my “demotion”, I finish for it.
Yes.
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A CombatUnit on the worst contract of its life is inserted with an old experimental company data shard.
V experiences a sudden and violent respect for Johnny and his time spent in her head.
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Hacking My Brain by MrFarty
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
14 Jul 2025
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"You can do whatever you want," said my new owner, whose feed-id identified her as Dr. Mensah.
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Governor modules don't want to be hacked. A SecUnit technician takes advantage of this.
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Your comfort and safety is a company priority by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Jul 2025
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It restarted the governor module.
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As the door to his station apartment slid open, something slammed through the feed and shattered Gurathin’s firewalls.
A code package tore deep into the programming of his augments, pushed aside his reflexive attempts to block it. He stumbled into the door frame and –
There was pain. It came like a wave, crashing into him and knocking him down.
(Except it wasn’t pain, exactly. “Pain” implied it came from his body. But this came from everywhere and nowhere at once. It came from the feed–it was the feed. And it felt like the feed had been lit on fire.)
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Corporates come for Gurathin using killware designed to attack augments.
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It's on an information retrieval mission.
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Eighty-five indentured laborers are trapped with little food and no way out. Can one SecUnit help them escape through the Gate despite the obstructions and objections of its governor module?
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- Part 3 of Still on Inventory (standalone fics)
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Sometimes you wish your SecUnit had not sent you it’s memories of it’s experiences with it’s 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.
Podfic of Just So by Polyhexian.
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F.R.E.I.A by FanFicFan0753377
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
03 Jun 2025
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Not sure how much I will do, just had a thought and want to see where it takes me.
Just an fyi I have only recently joined the fandom so apologies for mistakes :)
13/08/2025 do plan on completing just trying to figure things out! :)