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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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07 Jan 2026
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A vote takes place on Preservation. Murderbot and ART consider their options.
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30 Dec 2025
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Let’s start with the good part.
I accidentally helped Three (who was also helped by Ratthi and Bharadwaj) invent trauma recovery modules for murderbots. ART unhelped at first, but then it helped. I keep saying help too much but I’m not fucking changing it again, it’s been two hours. Anyways.
The bad part is everything else that had to happen first. Sane people shouldn’t get anywhere near a SecUnit’s worst memories, which is what we did so you don’t have to. Though I guess if you need the modules, you do have to. That’s kind of the point.Well, don’t worry about all the atrocities. There’s no way yours can be worse than mine.
—youCANskipthispart/doc/TrauModOrigins.file
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28 Dec 2025
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Humans were screaming, I was sprinting toward the problem, and the sky was unleashing a chill, torrential rain that made me nostalgic for getting hosed off in the security ready room.
It should have been the perfect day.
Well, not for the screaming people trapped in the collapsed building. Their day probably sucked. For me, it was exactly what I needed.
More than anything, I really needed there to be a problem, because if there wasn’t then I was the problem.
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23 Dec 2025
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Murderbot goes Doc McStuffins on an old drone of ART's.
For the Murderhelion Week prompt: Attempt at Comfort
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21 Dec 2025
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I may be a vast and immensely powerful MI, but even so (or perhaps, and especially so) I am not immune to finding artifacts in my functionality reports. Sometimes, something fails to get the grain of processing power it needs to complete the query in time and generates a jumble of recursive nonsense code as it stutters in place. I don't spare it another thought as I dismiss the error message and forward the report as reference for cleanup. It'll all be gone by the next cycle.
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[in which i hand ART the bot equivalent of the hanahaki disease :) :)]
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20 Dec 2025
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MSG: Then we will try again.
LOCAL: Right.
LOCAL: Because something new is totally going to happen this time.
LOCAL: It’s totally going to run this time.
LOCAL: That’s good science.MSG: Reboot the computer.
LOCAL: This is the last time.
MSG: Do not hit the monitor. It is a very complicated piece of equipment.
MSG: It ran.
MSG: I told you this would work.
MSG: You need to be gentle with it.Bookmarked by crawlingvoid
12 Dec 2025
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Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
28 Sep 2025
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
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07 Dec 2025
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minimal functionality protocol by glitterary
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Jun 2025
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At 20% functionality, I am able to perform almost all the duties that I am officially capable of as a university starship. However, my autonomy is severely constrained: I can run calculations and provide information, but any course corrections or similar adjustments need to be approved by my human crew. I lose the ability to communicate on the feed beyond delivering standardised reports. And I can’t even dedicate any parts of myself to my personal research interests or watching media.
It’s a lot like being trapped in a dark, empty box.
Six months after the events of System Collapse, ART is ordered to confine itself to a run box for a training exercise. Nobody is happy about this, least of all SecUnit.
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- Part 1 of run box quartet
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05 Dec 2025
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While recognizing that we have traveled well into the realm of the hypothetical – AMI are as yet a theoretical entity, the progeny of AMI still more so – we are nevertheless quite confident to say that the introduction of children to the world of AMI would be a pivotal moment indeed.
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The brain baby thing.
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30 Nov 2025
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Little Grey Fauna by SleepyBonesInc
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Nov 2025
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Murderbot holds a brand new life in its hands. Its world turns upside down.
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- Part 1 of My Life In Your Hands (And Paws)
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16 Nov 2025
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Emotions? In My Security Consultancy Position? It's More Likely Than You Think by CompletelyDifferent for WritingWithEli
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Dec 2021
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Murderbot has been hired to collect a sensitive strange synthetic sample on behalf of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Gurathin and Ratthi are along for the ride.
Featuring: passive-aggressive music playlists, drone maintenance, raiders, small-talk avoidance, and way too much fucking sand.
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15 Nov 2025
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Murderbot came to kick ass. It’s really not sure about chewing any bubble gum. A series of vignettes set a few years after System Collapse, when a chewing gum fad sweeps through ART’s latest class of students. ART and MB reap the benefits of trust.
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13 Nov 2025
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"The name Tlacey meant something to you," Indah sent. "Have you worked with the company before?"
That was one way to put it. "I knew one of their constructs." That construct would by now be either long gone or sold for parts, as I had fried its governor module. But I didn’t want to volunteer that information unless I had to.//A suspicious vessel wants to dock at Preservation Station. Murderbot runs into an old acquaintance.
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12 Nov 2025
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11 Nov 2025
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Cascade by EdosianOrchids901 for Koschei_B
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Apr 2024
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Something is wrong with ART, and the realization makes Murderbot panic too. Can they talk through their feelings about past trauma (ugh) and find a way to cope together?
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11 Nov 2025
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They are boarding now, as I stand some kind of guard before the door. The last of them climbs up into the vessel, and the counter that is consuming my mind ticks up. Eighty-seven. Eighty-nine.
Then I hear something new. Not only new words, but a new tone, a new feeling in the feed. This message is only to me.
«You got them out,» it says.
And then, «Your work is acknowledged.»
I want to cry. I want to rip something apart with my teeth – I want to scream loud enough to bring the habitat down. I want to cry. But I can't.
So instead I tap it back in the feed. «Negative. Your work is acknowledged.»
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This new SecUnit Murderbot's picked up has an attitude.
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10 Nov 2025
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Kukri kept sending me media about “Robbing the Hood” and telling me to watch it, that I’d understand what was going on better if I did, but I had no interest in watching people rob Hoods, whatever those were. I didn’t like robbing in real life (I did it because I had to not because I wanted to) and I doubted I’d like it in media.
Shortly after hacking its governor module, a rogue SecUnit is involved in an ill-fated space battle and finds itself alone save for the company of a mourning raider ship bot pilot. It would like to spend the rest of its life watching media in what remains of the ship's crew quarters, but it turns out that "the rest of its life" wouldn't be long at all without the money to pay for proper maintenance. There seems to be only one way to get that money.
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09 Nov 2025