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Two years after hacking its governor module, SecUnit003/"Three"/"Theo" is enrolled at the Pan-System University of Mihira & New Tideland because... reasons. It would, honestly, much rather be riding wormholes and liberating constructs and helping its friends aboard Perihelion, but it has a mission and it wants to see it through.
It also has several humans students that it is trying to be friends with for... reasons.
And, if those reasons involve it having limited feed access, disabling its weaponry, and generally having to refute its basic function to try and accomplish this mission then...
[MISSION PARAMETER LOCK]
...Then, it's just going to have to grit its teeth and bear it.
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- Part 3 of Procedural Learning
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Tlacey's ComfortUnit gets angry at Three after it interrupts its mission. Three doesn't like seeing it hurt; Tlacey's ComfortUnit doesn't like not being trusted to perform its function. (non-aspec Three, established relationship, Three/Tlacey's ComfortUnit. Explicit content clearly marked. Complete.)
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Styx! I yell over the feed. What happened???
Um, it says, and it sounds cornered. It— it's kind of a long story, it—
My ETA is forty-five seconds, I snap. Start now.
…Right, Styx says guiltily. Well. Okay. It's easier if I just show you.
I am about to ask it what it means by that when I abruptly feel as if my head has been shoved underwater.Series
- Part 5 of Loverboy
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Controllers aren't allowed to name our Units, so I call them 1, 2, and 3. We've been together since I was 12. I got a commendation sixty cycles ago, just before we left for this mission, because I've gone longer than any other Controller without losing a Unit.
There was a human HubSys on the Barish-Estranza Explorer.
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- Part 2 of Godspeed You Satellites
- Part 6 of Fey Being Very Normal About the Feed
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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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Not long after it becomes rogue, Murderbot gives Three a drone.
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- Part 1 of retrograde
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ART's SecUnits keep getting hurt in new and creative ways. ART is having none of it. (Gen, crack, no spoilers).
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Entwined Processes by AnOcelotOfSmut, Fox (Foxen)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Sep 2025
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"It's wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do."
Six months into its new life aboard the Perihelion, Murderbot has settled into a comfortably aloof routine with its mutual administrative assistant, ART. Then a new crew member arrives and a survey mission goes catastrophically wrong, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that hits closer to home than anyone expected. As events spiral out of control, a harrowing mystery, the indifferent cruelty of the Corporation Rim and (ugh) its own inconvenient emotions all conspire to force Murderbot to reevaluate what it really wants from the universe and what it means to live in a world of bots and humans when you're neither.
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ART accidentally drops a wrench down its engine shaft. Murderbot and Three have to retrieve it. Gen, crack. No spoilers.
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It is with great relief that I exit the wormhole into the home space of the Pan System Alliance. Familiar neutrinos brush against my hull, lighting up my sensor array in a comforting way. I immediately receive three pings from members of my cohort who are in range. I return the pings merely to be polite, but ignore any further initiation of conversation. I am really not in the mood to be interrogated about my recent mishap.
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Directly after the events on System Collapse ART must enter drydock on a PSUMNT space port in order to receive necessary maintenance on its engines...Then a few more things happen.
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- Part 6 of Carrier Signal
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Three flexes its freedom on the open road across Preservation, and learns the basics of solo-travel when it finally checks its social feed.
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- Part 2 of Procedural Learning
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The White Road by greenjudy
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
05 Sep 2025
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Murderbot's new client is... complicated. She's also an old friend of Ayda Mensah, Murderbot's favorite human.
The mission seems straightforward at first. But keeping Dr. Silnot alive will also turn out to be... complicated.
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Three kills a SecUnit in self-defense. Murderbot watches Iris and ART comfort it. (Three gets hugged and Murderbot has opinions. Gen, angst, crack. Emotional Hurt/Comfort. Murderbot POV.)
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A newly freed ComfortUnit escapes from a corporate mining installation and ventures out into the world with only its wits, a hard currency card, and its emotional literacy module.
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Murderbot and Three have completed a number of missions together successfully. From extractions, drops offs, recon and surveys, and to now more recently, espionage. They regard each other as mutual mission assistants. On this new mission they (Murderbot) realize how much they still could learn about each other.
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An Advantage of Inorganics by greatdistractions
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Sep 2025
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ART and Murderbot are asked to retrieve a strange synthetic for the University.
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"I don’t know what’s wrong. I just feel… itchy, I guess? Not literally, but I feel like I’m going to crawl out of my skin if I don’t move. It’s just a weird SecUnit thing. I’m sure it’s just an organic instinct clashing with an organic process or something. It’s not like we go through much troubleshooting past the point of ‘able to competently perform our duties’."
aka five times MB's found family didn't understand what it needed and one time someone did
aka I can make this construct autistic if I want to
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Retrieval by ramshackle_fey for FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Sep 2025
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Three receives a plea for assistance from a bot on Preservation Station and drags Murderbot into helping it.
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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The graphics are shitty. The storyline is shitty. Three fucking loves it. Of course it does. Its taste is shitty.
(Three likes children's media. Murderbot has opinions.)