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What if, inexplicably, ART and Murderbot maintain comms contact after the end of Artificial Condition?
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dual analysis in construct psychology and fluid viscosity by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Feb 2026
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The way ART’s systems are laid out, there’s a series of smaller reactors that power the non-engine portions of the ship. They feed into the engine’s power supply, but are still ultimately separate from it - the engine has its own, larger reactor, and only takes power from the smaller ones as backup (Far as I know, it can go the other way, too, but that’s not important.) I don’t know the details, and all that’s really important here is that some fuel maintenance had to be done on them, and I’m there too.
Matteo chatters idly as we walk, something about the reactor and its specs and the tritium-based fuel sludge used to feed ART’s smaller reactors. I keep them on one of my second processing tracks, and focus a larger part of my attention on the serial ART and I have up in the feed.
Overall, it was a pretty normal cycle.
Then, something changed once I entered the first reactor chamber.
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SecUnit watches a reactor refuel, and it thinks to itself: "I think I huave malware."
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you only want me for my latent telepathic ability by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Jan 2026
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“I am going-" I grab it by its stupid costume lapels and slam it into the ground, again and again, going on what has to be the fifth time. "- to make you shut up-" I land hit after hit on it, fists connecting with its face in wet crunches. "If it's the last fucking thing I do!"
The last punch breaks its nose with an unpleasant snap. It grunts and bucks under me, before going limp again. Its fingers spasm in their death grip on my hips, right along the augment seam, and I. Don't know what to think about that.
I pant harshly, fingers still fisted in its collar, and my other hand planted firmly beside its head. I'm waiting for it to do something, anything, in retaliation. I'm just waiting for it to fight back.
The only thing it does is let its face split in a slow grin. It lets out a low, wheezing chuckle. "I hope it is."__
In which Murderbot and ART are two superpowered individuals with a rivalry. It goes how one might expect. -
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Murderbot, post-memory wipe and capture by the Company, is very suddenly freed by a familiar transport ship.
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shield cold enough to freeze by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Jan 2026
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For a second I catch myself thinking about what all I can’t see, even on a clear day, under the surface. Of course, there’s things like fish and rocks and mud, maybe a shipwreck if we’re being generous, but I couldn’t for sure see any of it. Who knows what else might be down there?
After all, there is a lot of water beneath me.
I'm still chewing on that thought when I spot it: A smooth, snakelike appendage, slithering over the edge of my ship and onto the faux-wood of the deck.
Fitting, huh? Yeah.
That boating license was a great choice.
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ART muses at the way Murderbot is constructed, its function, as well as what it means to ART.
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10 Mar 2026
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historical AU set in the 1890s philippines, specifically around what are now the san nicolas/binondo/intramuros districts of manila.
it is the final decade of the spanish empire's control over the philippines. a revolutionary fighter's life takes a messy turn after an unexpected encounter with a pirate from across the sea.
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19 Feb 2026
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"Dammit. I’m sorry to say this, Peri," Seth sighed. "But I’m afraid you might have to try the— seduction."
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SecUnit comes home sex-pollened and has to be, ah, tempted over to the MedBay for treatment.
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10 Feb 2026
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Turnaround Time (TAT)
[noun]
The total duration from the making of a request to its completion and delivery.—
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Finally, with palpable resignation, ART asked, 'What do you need, Secunit?'
I pushed myself off of the wall and walked to the nearest medical table. Slowly and deliberately, as though the beat of my central circulatory pumps wasn’t pounding in my ears, I turned around and leaned back onto my hands. The small of my back came to rest against the edge of the platform. When I tilted my head all the way back and found the lens of ART’s camera, my mouth split into a smile that I hadn’t planned.
I said, “You.”
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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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06 Jan 2026