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    The trolls are old enough for Ascension Day, when they would normally either be culled or join the Fleet. This time, though, the Fleet never shows up. Supply shipments start running low before they stop entirely. Alternia is thrown into chaos.

    Then the aliens show up.

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    When an incident on a mission threatens Secunit with burnout, ART decides to run an experiment with it. Purely for Secunit's mental health of course. No other reason.

    "Additionally," it continued, "I would consider it a type of experiment." It shoved the research document at me again. "There are various studies that suggest that acts of bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, and masochism can help regulate a nervous system in an individual with trauma."

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    29 Mar 2026

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    After the Perihelion parts ways with its SecUnit, it does some research on its way home.

    This is sort of like setting a Google alert for your crush's name.

    Set between Artificial Condition and Rapport.

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    29 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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    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."
    Then, it has a crisis about it.

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    25 Mar 2026