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the comlink's open but there's no one tuned in on the other side by half_baked_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Sep 2025
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For this to work, my governor module would be partially reactivated and I’d have to act as a governed Unit again for the next two cycles.
Yeah, this was going to suck. Even if I did get to keep my access to the feed and my media archives.
Written for 100 Prompts Challenge: Dull (56); Gamble (82).
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- Part 3 of HBI’s 100 Prompts [Redone]
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Upon finding out that Peri has befriended a SecUnit, Seth is concerned for its safety. Peri attempts to explain by sharing a conversation.
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Protocol Error by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Sep 2025
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SecUnit 3 experiences its first 100 hours without a governor module.
The first 10 hours were spent recovering 1.0 from alien hostiles. Those turn out to have been the easy hours. At least Three had protocol to cover some of that situation. Now SecUnits 1 and 2 are inoperative, 1.0 has blocked it, Perihelion terrifies it, and Three is alone.
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My SecUnit is pacing in the navigation deck. I'm about to ping it when .03 seconds after coming online, I notice something has partitioned off part of my system.
There is an unknown virus in my system.
I attempt to purge it from the system at the same time I hear SecUnit over the feed.
"Do not panic and do not do anything rash until you know what's happening. We're all safe and accounted for."
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I can feel amusement in the not-feed. It’s not ART. ART’s not here. Isn’t coming back. I knew that so it knew that. We were angry about that. I mean it was angry. Was I angry? It didn’t matter. It wants ART, it wants to be free.
Sorry 2.0. I think I did fuck it up.
In Network Effect Three and ART get to Murderbot in the nick of time to save it from targetControl.
What if they didn't?
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When they first proper met, Three tried to show concern in its own customary way—unfortunately, Murderbot didn’t quite appreciate the gesture.
Book 5: Network Effect, Chapter 20, shortly after MB 1.0 was repaired. The initial interaction between two SecUnits from different companies, each accustomed to vastly different operational protocols: MB is highly guarded, while Three awkwardly attempts kindness. Needless to say, it’s a beginning filled with misunderstandings.
Written in the style of a system log. May or may not include additional chapter.Series
- Part 3 of Three's Guide for the New Rogue Unit
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初识时分，三号尝试用自己习惯的方式表达关心，可惜MB没能领情。
《网络效应》（第五册）第20章，在MB1.0刚被修好时发生的事。两个来自不同公司、习惯于不同工作模式的安保单元们的初步互动，MB戒心满格，三号笨拙示好，总之是个误会重重的开端。
系统日志文体，可能有后记，也可能没有。Series
- Part 3 of 三号的新晋失控单元实用指南
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- 中文-普通话 國語
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Not long after it becomes rogue, Murderbot gives Three a drone.
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- Part 1 of retrograde
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When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.
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- Part 2 of Admin Access
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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You SecUnits' definitions of 'friend' are certainly impressive, Perihelion said.
Book 5: Network Effect, Chapter 20. Some scenes between the moment MB1.0 is about to be repaired and the moment Three asks it for the full memory files. Focuses on discussions between Ratthi, Amena, ART, and Three about what exactly constitutes a "friend" and "friendship."
MB exists mostly in the background, but everyone loves it. (They won't tell it.)ART: *Still hung up on being called "mutual administrative assistance" by MB*
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- Part 2 of Three's Guide for the New Rogue Unit
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【你们安保单元对‘朋友’的定义真是令人印象深刻。】近日点号说。
《网络效应》（第五册）第20章，在MB1.0即将被修好到三号向它索要完整记忆文件这段时间内发生的一些事，主要是拉提&阿米娜&ART与三号对‘朋友’和‘友谊’究竟意味着什么的讨论。
第一人称叙事，三号主视角。含有少量‘企业边域糟透了’的情节，总体上还是个暖心的治愈故事。
MB只存在于背景中，但所有人都爱它。（ART：*对MB说它俩是‘行政互助对象’耿耿于怀*）
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- Part 2 of 三号的新晋失控单元实用指南
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[Podfic] Stalemate | written by harvestar by Tipsy_Kitty for sisi_rambles
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Aug 2025
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It had been an accident.
All I knew was that one moment, I’d been getting torn to pieces by a raiding party breaching one of the airlocks, and in the next they’d been dead, and then ART’s full attention- nearly 100% of its processing power- had been flowing through me, and it had been probably the most fucked-up orgasm-adjacent Thing that anyone, organic or otherwise, had ever experienced.
Not least because one of my arms had been thrown across the room seconds before it had happened.
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Canon-Compliant, But From a Different Perspective by YCong
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Aug 2025
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Book 5: Network Effect, Chapter 20. A glimpse into the moments between MB1.0's successful retrieval and its restart. Includes speculation on why Three prefers nonfiction and educational entertainment.
MB exists mostly in the background, but everyone cares (loves) it.PS: ART isn't malicious, just frustrated (thanks to the whole mess in Network Effect). Unfortunately, Three doesn't know that.
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- Part 1 of Three's Guide for the New Rogue Unit
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《网络效应》（第五册）第20章，在MB1.0被成功营救到重新开机之间发生的一些事，以及对三号为什么会喜欢看教育片而非娱乐节目的原因推测。
第一人称叙事，三号主视角。含有微量性侵侧写，和大量的自我物化情节，企业边域糟透了。
MB只存在于背景中，但所有人都关心（爱）它。ps：ART没有恶意，只是有点烦躁（因为《网络效应》中发生的那一系列破事），可惜三号并不知情。
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- Part 1 of 三号的新晋失控单元实用指南
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[Art] Hanging out is a joint operation by Errantry (Hecateae) for musicofthespheres, homosekularnost
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jul 2025
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Art for Musicofthesphere's 2025 Murderbot Big Bang fic.
Three is late getting back to Preservation, then its social calendar seems to be full all the time.
Murderbot's disappointed, but it's not like it can just ask Three to spend time with it. Besides, if Three wanted to hang out, it would say so. Right?
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Or: 5 times Murderbot won't admit it likes spending time with Three, and 1 time it finally gets over itself and does.Series
- Part 10 of Collaboratives
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ART trials a new bot body for Dr Mensah's birthday party. Murderbot is (mostly) unimpressed.
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- Part 2 of MB's fan club
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Between the sea and the shore by Polyhexian
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Jul 2025
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You are not a kind thing.
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Projection: Prognosis, Forecast, Prediction, Hypothesis by enchantedsleeper
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Jul 2025
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Perihelion has spent more processing capability than is strictly efficient considering scenarios where it encounters SecUnit once again.
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Most people are aware of the fact that they have a soul prior to meeting their soulmate.
We aren’t most people.
(Part 1: A partial retelling of Artifical Condition from ART’s POV, wherein everyone’s favourite asshole research transport discovers 1. That it has a soul, and 2. That it has a soulmate. It handles this news completely rationally.
Part 2: A partial retelling of Network Effect, Murderbot POV, where it also has some uncomfortable realizations.)