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"SecUnit, can you and Perihelion please just get a room!"
ART and Murderbot forget that other bots and constructs can perceive what they do on the feed.
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29 May 2026
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In Da Drone-Piloted Shuttle We All Fam by sanctuaryrin
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 May 2026
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I said, “Do you like watching media?”
(I know, I know, but in my experience sharing content from my library of media could get me out of most of the uncomfortable conversations I didn't want to be in with Mensah’s small humans. Except with Amena.)
Janity crossed her arms and leaned back against the hatchway, her expression unreadable.
“I like people answering my questions more.”
Oh for fuck’s–
Janity has some questions for Murderbot about its dynamic with the preservation humans. Is Murderbot going to put on its big-construct pants and answer them? Or is it going to go stare at a wall until this stupid shuttle finally docks?
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26 May 2026
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Maintenance Manual for SecUnits models 36b-27f by Wordlet
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Aug 2024
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When Mensah receives the maintenance manual for the person she just bought she discards it on instinct. It's not until later, while trying to navigate the needs of a person she has limited context for, that the supplementary reading becomes useful. It's not instructions the way they are supposed to be but it does provide... guidance.
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collection of scenes where MB accidentally shows that it has SecUnit needs.Bookmarked by pacphys
23 May 2026
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On a mission, Murderbot gets shot. When it finds out the comm it keeps under its ribs was also damaged, it has a completely normal and rational response.
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09 May 2026
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"Someday, Ratthi hopes, he’s going to run out of things to learn about Secunit that break his heart."
Making a documentary in five hours flat is an experience in and of itself, but making a documentary with some of your friend's worst memories as footage is something else altogether.Bookmarked by pacphys
09 May 2026
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Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by BlatantBookworm
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2026
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I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
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Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
Mostly positive.
Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
(Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
(It’s still pretty positive.)Series
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01 May 2026
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There was a Tumblr post I saw that was poking holes in Murderbot’s whole "I don't eat food, I don't produce waste, I'm not human with human needs, yada yada yada” attitude. They theorized that Murderbot’s cubicle acted like a dialysis machine that recharged its not-blood with all the things a biologically alive thing needs to stay alive. Well, Murderbot hasn't exactly been in contact with a cubicle for a while now has it? ART has come up with a fun (for it) way to solve that problem.
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26 Apr 2026
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Murderbot showing affection without touching by booping people with drones.
Thank you for the prompt, ramshackle_fey!
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24 Apr 2026
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Tech Support by FascinatedFinch, ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Apr 2026
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Martyn and Seth meet in grad school because Martyn has a supernatural ability to break systems, and Seth works at the IT help desk.
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23 Apr 2026
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"The one drawback to listing Secunit as one of the emergency contacts on her PSUMNT admissions paperwork is the possibility that someone might actually contact it for an emergency someday." Amena's---and Secunit's---collegiate careers in thirteen snippets.
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17 Apr 2026
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Four times having a governor module fucking sucked, plus one time [REDACTED: FILE MISSING].
(Or: Murderbot has Emotions for 8,000 words. ART tries to help. So does Dr. Mensah, but like, in a decidedly less assholish way.)
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11 Apr 2026
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The consequences of Murderbot sharing media with bot-pilots all across the galaxy.
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10 Apr 2026
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As a company that has to keep some pretense of respectability, Barish-Estranza representatives can’t just take whatever they want whenever they want.
Their SecUnits are a different story. No one takes a second look when the furniture starts taking things.Barish-Estranza used their SecUnits for some creative, dubiously legal activities. Three has no resignations about using those skills.
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03 Apr 2026
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Lawless State of Existence by Sparrowlicious
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Jul 2022
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I don’t have a child, I said to Indah over the feed.
Your grown SecUnit child, Indah said.
Oh.Or: People assume Murderbot is Three's parental figure but not really.
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03 Apr 2026
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The Preservation Prowler Person by AnOcelotOfSmut
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Nov 2025
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Three is on Preservation to visit its friend, Dr. Ratthi, and observe the greater dusk-winged prowler migration. It ends up making a big impression on more than just the birds.
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03 Apr 2026
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I had known for a long time that Preservation was a ridiculous place. When a compressed packet hit my feed from JollyBaby, one of the station hauler bots, I didn’t know that Preservation was going to prove even more ridiculous.
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Murderbot gets invited to a wedding and. is. confused.
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02 Apr 2026
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Cross-Channel Communication by aros_66
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
28 Mar 2026
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While she knows other members of the old PresAux team have been less-than-thrilled with SecUnit’s level of constant surveillance since returning to Preservation Station, Ayda can’t say she minds it, personally. In this case, it’s actually kind of reassuring to know there’s a second set of eyes on the exchange. Although the commentary is certainly proving distracting…
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29 Mar 2026
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This is a reference document for SecSysLang, my fanon conlang for SecUnits, SecSystems, HubSystems, etc. to use when talking to each other.
This also contains some amount of meta from the actual canon; SecSysLang assumes that all the SecUnits and SecSystems in canon actually use SecSysLang, and Murderbot just translates it into words for us.Feel free to use/adapt/take inspiration from/modify etc. SecSysLang in your own fanworks!
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19 Mar 2026
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14 Mar 2026
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Dr. Mensah and Murderbot help Amena settle in for an internship at PSUMNT. Sometimes you love your family and still want them to back off—but sometimes, your roommates have vastly different views of the situation than you do. Also, SecUnit rescues a bird.
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- Part 1 of Roommates
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09 Mar 2026