ProximaShining

ProximaShining



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  1. Public Bookmark 21

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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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    02 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 38

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    Murderbot got sold shortly after hacking its governor module. Working at a manufacturing facility is depressing.

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    31 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    A reimagining of All Systems Red/Season 1, using elements from both.

    Sent on what should be a long and tedious, but extremely simple, mission, Gurathin finds himself an unwitting target of The Company's shadow client and is forced to join up with a free-hold survey team way over their heads, and a rogue SecUnit that can't seem to catch a break.

    Gurathin is assigned as a systems engineer to DeltFall during the ill fated survey, with orders to collect information for the shadow client, GrayCris, that could lead to the location of alien remnants. After their Security Unit and a researcher are mauled by giant fauna not in the information packet, and experiencing satellite outages, PresAux reaches out to DeltFall for assistance, and Gurathin is sent to assist, although no gift is truly free. Left with PresAux with orders to clone their data for DeltFall, Gurathin narrowly avoids sharing the fate of the rest of the team. Now he's stuck with a group of hippies, a Murderbot, and a fellow DeltFall survivor he's never seen before.

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    28 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 71

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    ART tries to kill itself -- completely out of nowhere and over something entirely innocuous. Or was it simply the last straw?

    Pause. Roll back the tape. Let's see how we got here. And after that, let's figure out how to go on.

    [surfactant: a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved. a measure of relief -- or a prevention of collapse]

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    22 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 67

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    Systems restart

     

     

     

    Suddenly it was coming back online. And it was somewhere else. Not where they were supposed to be.

     

     

    Murderbot disappears.

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    18 Jan 2026