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There is actually a way out from between a reinforced steel bulkhead and a hard place, but you're definitely not gonna like it by Dooiney_Oie
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Aug 2021
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The middle of All Systems Red, but with a few changes to how those pesky combat override modules work, among other things :)
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The humans were going to want to know what a combat override module was, what it did, how it worked, and most importantly, why it hadn't worked on me. I could answer the first three things just fine, but short of telling my already-jittery clients I was hacked ("so I'm actually one of those scary rogue units you've heard so much about, but the good news is that a combat override module can't hijack a governor module that doesn't work!"), that last thing was going to be a big problem.
Honestly, even if I did tell them exactly that, which I really didn't want to do, it was going to be a really big fucking problem.- Language:
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04 Mar 2026
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“I’m sorry, did you say eleven years old?” Ratthi asked, because humans can’t play back bits of conversations that they didn’t hear and are always asking each other to repeat things, much to the annoyance of any contracted SecUnits being forced to listen in and record everything they say to be sold for advertising data.
“Yes,” Gurathin confirmed, and then everyone was staring at me and looking all shocked and sad and whatever.
“Constructs don’t age the same way humans do,” I reminded them, before anyone could start thinking anything stupid like oh no, Murderbot is just a little kid and little kids shouldn’t be doing security and eleven year olds shouldn’t have guns in their arms. "Eleven is old for a SecUnit. Most of my inorganics are already past warranty.”
Except, because I’m an idiot, that didn’t make it better. It actually made it worse, because now even Dr. Mensah was making a concerned face at me.Bookmarked by mamie_pink
04 Mar 2026
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Stranger on a Strange Planet by IHopedTheredBeStars for CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Aug 2023
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This a continuation of Survival, which is Chapter 9 of "The Storage Box", a collection of short works by CompletelyDifferent, who kindly allowed me to take their wonderful idea and pile 7 more chapters and one original character onto it.
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- Part 2 of All Systems Redux
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04 Mar 2026
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Combat System Critical by Sholio
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Dec 2025
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SecUnit is on Preservation when an attempted assassination on a PresAux team member turns a quiet retreat at a backwater university into a fight for survival.
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25 Feb 2026
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It's always seemed to me that a construct hacking their own governor module (especially with self-created and therefore unproven code) would be an act of either extreme optimism or extreme desperation. This is an AU of All Systems Red in which Murderbot reaches that point much later, possibly due to excessive pessimism...
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- Part 1 of All Systems Redux
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17 Feb 2026