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“SecUnit?” she whispered.
The person lying on the bunk across from her did not respond.
“…Murderbot?”
Of course it didn’t respond. It was shut down, completely gone from the feed. The only thing alive about SecUnit right now was its organic tissue. Still, she couldn’t help but entertain the tiny shred of hope that if she called its name, it would open its eyes and look at her with that soft, world-weary expression it so often wore.
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Mensah is reeling in the aftermath of the killware attack. Turns out Murderbot is not the only one who suffered a catastrophic systems failure.
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“Perihelion!” she whispered urgently, “What’s happening to SecUnit?”
“There is no need to worry, Dr Mensah,” Perihelion replied, “SecUnit has gone into an involuntary stasis sequence.” Its voice was calm and reassuring, though there was some other emotion underneath that Mensah couldn’t quite identify.
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Murderbot is more comfortable around its favourite human than it realizes. Mensah and ART have a lot of emotions about this.
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“Amena, are there hostiles in range?” I was already on my feet and grabbing my projectile weapon.
“What??” Amena blurted. “No—I donno! You’re so weird! Just come find me, okay? …Please?”
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Amena is new to PSUMNT and needs a little help from her robo-parents.
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Mensah was quiet for 2.7 seconds, then asked “How are you feeling after that meeting today?”
“Oh, just great! I can’t wait to be a Preservation pet robot!”
I was still looking at her through one of my drones and saw her wince minutely. That micro-expression would have slipped past most humans, but to me, it looked like a distress beacon.
Shit, that came out a little harsher than I meant it to. None of this was Mensah’s fault, but I was tired of monitoring my responses, and I still hadn’t gotten around to setting that one-second response delay. I wasn’t having a very good day, okay?
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Preservation isn't as welcoming to Murderbot as its humans imagined it would be. Murderbot is not surprised. Mensah, Pin-Lee and Murderbot have emotions about it.
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Mild human air-borne illness:1, Murderbot: 0 by Civvi
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Mar 2026
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Murderbot experiences some strange malfunctions after going to an event with Pin-Lee. Surely it must have malware or something. Since when did Mensah keep her lights so bright?
Meanwhile Mensah experiences an extremely stressful situation, she had no idea constructs could get sick.Set sometime post-Exit Strategy but pre-Fugitive Telemetry
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15 Mar 2026
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“What are we looking at, time-wise?” I ask.
Three hours until full collapse, maybe two and a half before irreversible abstraction, and— For a moment, it pauses, but not as if it's nervous. It pauses in a way that punctuates its next statement. Two before you need to terminate my kernel.
Lightning shoots up my spine. “I'm not doing that.”
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15 Mar 2026
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Dr. Mensah and Murderbot help Amena settle in for an internship at PSUMNT. Sometimes you love your family and still want them to back off—but sometimes, your roommates have vastly different views of the situation than you do. Also, SecUnit rescues a bird.
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- Part 1 of Roommates
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09 Mar 2026
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PUMNT suggested that the whole family be on board when Perihelion was booted up for the first time. That was a mistake the advanced MI research lab would never repeat. When the powerful newborn AI misunderstands its own systems, leading to a nearly fatal accident, the family is left wrestling with questions of love, fear, and identity. Well, Seth and Martyn are. Iris and Peri just want to be left alone with their coloring books.
AKA the baby ART and Iris 12x100: 12 mini-scenes of 100 words each about ART's creation and first few years of existence.
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- Part 1 of The Fight or Flight Cinematic Universe
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08 Mar 2026
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I wanted ART to come back online so we could watch Sanctuary Moon episode 412 together and it could argue with me about whether spacetime-fuckery alternate universes counted as canon. I wanted it to come back online so I could tell it Holism put an aquarium in Three's chest and wasn't that totally deranged. I wanted it to come back online so it could bully me into figuring out what my fucking problem was.
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08 Mar 2026