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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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04 May 2026
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Official Security Specialist Advice: don’t hire a rogue SecUnit by Emily_Elizabeth_Fowl
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Aug 2025
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Something felt wrong while I was waking up, but it took a while before I booted up enough to remember what it was.
And, when I did, I jerked in my restraints. Which I had now, apparently. Joy.
So, to summarize: The company’s crappy equipment fell apart mid-transport, unlocking my cubicle. I couldn’t fall into stasis again, so I spent the time watching media, which someone somehow noticed. A young human came to investigate and had enough information to know I was rogue. I panicked.
And now I was tied up somewhere.
This was shaping up to be a great contract (that was sarcasm).
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- Part 3 of The MurderBot Fics
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28 Apr 2026
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SOS.Murderbot.file by Gimme_a_Hand_Scaevola
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jan 2026
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While Murderbot is busy guarding Dr.Mensah, Pin-Lee is kidnapped by someone from the Corporation Rim. In the course of Murderbot's rescue mission, it and the rest of the PresAux team unearth the long tendrils of Corporation Rim malfeasance and two unlikely allies to save Pin-Lee from the clutches of a slave ship.
The work is completely written and will be updated twice weekly, Tuesdays and Saturdays.
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27 Apr 2026
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I was there when Iris died.
I brought her body back for ART.
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07 Apr 2026
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to chart a course across the stars by CompletelyDifferent
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Aug 2023
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A role-swap AU, in which one paranoid, bitter gunship escapes its corporate owners, forges an unlikely friendship in a free-range SecUnit, and finds a crew of its own.
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03 Apr 2026
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03 Apr 2026
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Turn My Governor Back On by OccasionalStorytelling
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Jun 2021
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Murderbot has taken to turning its governor module on every so often to relax. It feels a little bit like going on autopilot, and it likes how that feels (so longs its careful not to trigger a shock). ART notices that Murderbot has been doing this, and wants to have a conversation about that.
(Basically, ART and Murderbot do a non-sexual kink negotiation for a non-sexual bondage session, and then try out letting ART control Murderbot's governor module)
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30 Mar 2026
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All my Murderbot fics involving my company technician OC Jaryn and her lab assistant Unit, Geri.
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30 Mar 2026
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Broken Piece of Paradise by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Dec 2025
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The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way.
The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from.
Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat.
And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…
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- Part 1 of Paradise
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24 Mar 2026
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Murderbot got sold shortly after hacking its governor module. Working at a manufacturing facility is depressing.
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- 23,497
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23 Mar 2026
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A busy executive with a difficult child decides to indulge her interest in SecUnits by getting her one of her own.
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23 Mar 2026
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14 Mar 2026
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Goose has been dead for a week and a half when Iceman loses his first wingman in a dogfight with six Soviet MiGs over the Sea of Okhotsk.
Goose has been dead for thirty years when Iceman loses his second wingman to a surface-to-air missile on the tail-end of a mission he's responsible for: he's sent his family on a suicide mission to destroy a uranium enrichment facility in Russia's Far East.
This is the story of those thirty years in the middle.
(Or: Tom Kazansky rises through the ranks while trying to stay a good man. If he ever was one to begin with.)
[Final edit 2/4/23. See Ch. 1 notes for major changes.]
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- Part 1 of Easier Done Than Said
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13 Mar 2026
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Mechanical technopaths didn’t often make it to high ranks in the military. Pete knew that, and he didn’t much care. He wanted to fly the planes. He didn’t want to be an admiral or whatever. That sounded boring as hell. It turned out it was like that for every MT. Whatever machine they preferred to interface with, an MT couldn’t be happy, sometimes couldn’t survive without regular access to it.
There was another reason that MT’s didn’t make high ranks, though, something that they didn’t tell you, something that you learned on the very first day when they brought you into the Tech Pits for your intake screening and health assessment.
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10 Mar 2026
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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 Mar 2026
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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07 Mar 2026
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(nothing more difficult than) my own soul by aloneintherain
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Nov 2025
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“Oh,” Mensah said.
I followed her gaze to her lion daemon. Sadik was so large he took up most of the rug and dwarfed the coffee table where, I realised with a jolt, my own little beast had been hiding.
I rounded the coffee table. Beast had buried itself deep in Sadik’s mane, pressed up against his neck. It blinked back at me slowly, almost smug, and then pressed even further against Sadik. Another fission of heat ran through my chest, like I’d been made to swallow hot coals.
(OR: A touch-averse Murderbot learns to live with a touch-seeking daemon.)
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03 Mar 2026
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More Than Meets The Eye by that_one_kid
Fandom Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Aug 2025
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A collection of my works where Gurathin has more augments than the two mentioned in the books concealed under a counter-scanning implant from his time in the Corporation Rim. Loosely non-sequential, can be read in any order.
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24 Feb 2026
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Damaged Goods by that_one_kid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
26 Jul 2025
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I was such an idiot. I’d let myself relax, thinking that getting to Preservation Alliance had changed things for me. But I’d risked leaving for Dr. Mensah’s conference, and now I’d been kidnapped alongside my least favorite human. Damaged goods, called back to the Corporation Rim for repairs.
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- Part 3 of More Than Meets The Eye
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23 Feb 2026
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Hey ART, what’s this? I ask, pulling up a file from the archival storage.
ART snatches it out of my metaphorical hands and tucks it back into storage. Just a research project.
I squint at the wall. What kind of research?
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In which Murderbot finds a presentation for a 'research project' that ART did not want it to ever find.
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05 Feb 2026