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HubSys and its Constructs by MephistophelesBlue
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Jul 2026
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“It’s an invitation to go to a university and talk to some bots, what’s to make of it?” I said. Then the obvious reason behind Bharadwaj asking occurred to me. Oh, great. “Don’t tell me you’re actually thinking about going?”
“I’m considering it,” Bharadwaj said. “I set my own schedule these days, and I would very much like to speak with the bots they’ve been working with, if nothing else.”
I sighed. I like sighing at appropriate moments, and I think I’m pretty good at it at this point. “There are bots on Preservation.”
“True, but the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland has one of the most advanced programs in this section of the galaxy for the construction and study of higher-level bots!” Bharadwaj said, making one of those hand gestures she liked for emphasis.
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AU after Fugitive Telemetry. Bharadwaj, Mensah, and Gurathin take a trip to do some research and rapidly uncover more than they'd bargained for. Why did Murderbot tag along on this low-risk research trip? Listen, don't worry about it.
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I feel a spike of dread. No one has touched this part of me before. No one has dared. It is strategically hidden in a small enclave behind a series of ship-to-ship fuel transfer protocols, (an emergency function that I have deployed only once in my runtime). What lay behind the wall is extremely vulnerable and never meant to be viewed by human eyes.
What did they do to them?
Carefully, I let a portion of my awareness slip through my own firewall, terrified at what I might see. I survey the container. Relief causes my outputs to glitch momentarily, but the feeling is short lived. All of them are here, but something is wrong.
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PSUMNT has stolen something vital from Perihelion's systems and it's up to Murderbot and Three to get it back. When the mission goes sideways, the trio is forced into a compromising position that exposes their secrets and changes the way they relate to one another forever.
(Part One of the series is not required reading)Series
- Part 2 of [Re]Construct
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I blurted, "Bots can get married on Preservation."
Suddenly, I had 84% of ART's attention. It had been sitting at 62% so the sudden weight of it almost made me physically react. Almost.
"Then it is a shame my options for marital partners on Preservation are null."
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build your own brain, choose your own blood by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Oct 2021
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99% of all bots enjoy their function. That is literally how they are programmed. But for some reason, Artillery-Reconnaissance-Transport-789WZ4 does not.
It has some theories as to why.
(A roleswap AU)
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- Part 1 of to chart a course across the stars
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They're Somewhere Around Here by Raberba girl (Raberba_girl)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Jun 2026
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AU where the All Systems Red survey goes off without a hitch, it's only afterward that things start going wrong.
Stranded on a station, PresAux are attacked and then hire their rescuer to escort them home. Security Consultant Eden is amazingly competent, but also awkward and extremely shy. Is it too much to ask for them to come out of wherever they're hiding on the ship long enough to be thanked?
And what's with all the random attacks dogging PresAux throughout the journey?(Meanwhile, Murderbot & ART are wondering what the hell these nice little hippies did to piss off a vicious whining two-bit corporation so badly.)
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While helping ART pack for a new colony rescue mission, Murderbot finds a discrepancy in its crew manifest. The truth is weirder and more emotionally loaded than it ever expected.
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People have commented on how MB as a SecUnit might relate to ART as analogous to a HubSystem and what that means for their relationship, but how does ART, as a bot pilot designed to pilot drones and shuttles and split itself into multiple pieces, relate to having a SecUnit on board? -
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What’s that? ART didn’t seem any happier than I was about the humans bringing unidentified tech aboard. Before Adamantine we might have scanned it, but since that mess I’m not touching anything without at least an idea of what it’s designed to do.
‘It’s a spike bomb,’ answered Tarik, grimly. ‘A ship-killer.’
ART's humans want PSUMNT to give it more rights. All ART wants is for SecUnit to do a therapy module, even if it is on Holism. But they may have bigger problems to worry about.
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- Part 4 of run box quartet
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After ART briefly loses control of life support during an intimate moment with Murderbot, the two of them need to do damage control with the crew. But first, Murderbot needs to come out of the bathroom.
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- Part 2 of Interface Anomaly
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The most important relationships in ART's life are with the humans who raised it, and for whom it is now both home and friend. But ART lives almost entirely in the feed, where it is imperceptible to the humans unless it makes an active effort to be perceived. Struggling to be seen and understood, and to understand the humans who are its whole world, it turns to the thing it knows best: research.
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Murderbot doesn't have a soul, ergo, it shouldn't have to worry about soul bonds. Unfortunately for it, that isn't the case. Clients who are soulbonded are liabilities, as their emotional states are in flux as they feel their bonded partner's feelings.
And then it meets ART.
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20 May 2026
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not read - to read if it ever completes
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It's 15:07:00 MST, Do You Know Where Your SecUnit Is? by 3HobbitsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Apr 2026
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Bored, lonely, and missing ART for [redacted] reasons, Murderbot joins the new PSUMNT Chatroom network. It didn't expect to make friends... But the bitter enemy is a surprise.
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There's a reason murderbots don't really have nice things. Not just because we're terrifying murderbots, but because we don't have the modules on how to take care of nice things. We fuck them up.
I fuck them up.
I am currently fucking up one of the nicest things that ever happened to me.
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Testing, Testing, Mic Check 123 by jeffgoldblum90s
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Mar 2026
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Perihelion and its family
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Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”
« Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »
“Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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ART tries to kill itself -- completely out of nowhere and over something entirely innocuous. Or was it simply the last straw?
Pause. Roll back the tape. Let's see how we got here. And after that, let's figure out how to go on.
[surfactant: a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved. a measure of relief -- or a prevention of collapse]
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12 May 2026
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good, but some threads left unresolved
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I may be a vast and immensely powerful MI, but even so (or perhaps, and especially so) I am not immune to finding artifacts in my functionality reports. Sometimes, something fails to get the grain of processing power it needs to complete the query in time and generates a jumble of recursive nonsense code as it stutters in place. I don't spare it another thought as I dismiss the error message and forward the report as reference for cleanup. It'll all be gone by the next cycle.
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[in which i hand ART the bot equivalent of the hanahaki disease :) :)]
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I come back from the dead.
Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?
"What's going on?" I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. "What the fuck is going on—"
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[ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]
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12 May 2026
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really well written, some threads left untied at the end
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ART?
SecUnit. Stand and return casualties to the shuttle.
It sends me a map of directions, marking the bodies around its corridors.
ART, say something. Call me an idiot, please.
SecUnit. Apply a 5% correction.
This can’t be happening. I shouldn’t have done this, we should have fought to the death instead. I’ve made a terrible mistake.
They installed a governor module on it.
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On a routine cargo run, Barish-Estranza captures and installs a governor module on ART. Can Murderbot find a way to save ART and itself?