Coal Dust and Starlight
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Baby ART forms, sorts out observable reality, meets Martyn and Seth, finds Iris fascinating, and decides to hate the #$%* out of it's sibling.
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- Part 1 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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Young ART watches Iris, Organizes itself down to the atomic level, makes several new friends, gets grounded, learns one of the biggest secrets in AI research, and does one nice thing for Holism. ...Though with very little grace.
Sequel to 'Goldfish'.
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- Part 2 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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We're Going on a Trip by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Jan 2024
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Young Art starts pre-starship school, assists in the re-naming of one of it's classmates, learns a truly ugly secret about the Advanced Robotics program's past, interacts with Iris, is totally NOT saved by Holism, discovers coconut Laddu, is defeated by a badly-placed chair leg, and gets to see inside a Human brain.
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- Part 3 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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When ART's class (now tween/young teenage AIs) sets out in a surprisingly wise old cargo ship bound for the great Dockyards of Mihira, everyone brings something different that they just couldn't leave behind...
For Holism it's an attitude. For Perihelion(ART) it's The Bronze's shadow. For Sum Total it's a dangerous degree of boredom. For First Light it's a new and visceral engineering choice. For Asterisk it's a face from the past. For Harmonic Series it's an Otter. For Right Ascension it's a mysterious upgrade.
...And for Iris, it's cold/flu bug she probably caught at daycare.Bon Voyage.
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- Part 4 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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Cabin Fever/Maxwell's Demon by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Apr 2024
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Stuck at the Mihiran quarantine dock until ALL of their Humans are FINALLY well again, ART's class learns many things they weren't expecting to...
[4/12/2024: Fic indefinitely paused after ch2/coda, but no malicious cliffhanger.]
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- Part 5 of Coal Dust and Starlight