Hierarchy of Needs
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Protocol Error by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Oct 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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- Part 1 of Hierarchy of Needs
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Compliance Function by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Oct 2025
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@BEsu03 Unit request assistance: location.canteen hzd0274
Hazard 0274 = fall risk (wet ground). That's what humans create when there is alcohol involved.
Two Barish-Estranza clients try to make bad decisions on behalf of an even worse supervisor. Desperate to stop them, SecUnit02 calls on 03 for help.
Series
- Part 1 of Complementary: Interdependent, Corresponding, Harmonious
- Part 2 of Hierarchy of Needs
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Resource Misallocation by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Oct 2025
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The SecUnit waited, completely unmoving, as Izak subvocalized for the office door to lock and set his feed status to Do Not Disturb (another new perk of the promotion). Of course the Unit stood there, it had to. Still, he felt judged. He wiped a sweating palm on his uniform.
Shift Supervisor Doren celebrates his recent promotion by taking advantage of his new ability to order the SecUnits around.
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- Part 2 of Complementary: Interdependent, Corresponding, Harmonious
- Part 3 of Hierarchy of Needs
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Failover State by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Oct 2025
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2 and 3 are not the first and only SecUnits I have been deployed with.
While a technician works to save 2, SecUnit 1 stresses over the threat to 3: becoming entangled with the interests of humans.
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- Part 4 of Hierarchy of Needs
- Part 3 of Complementary: Interdependent, Corresponding, Harmonious
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Security Patch by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Nov 2025
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It was like Amena was there and it was happening again. Then she was back in the bunkroom and blinking hard, her heart hammering. She gasped in one big breath and then held it, knowing that if she didn't then the next one and the next one would both be noisy and out of control. But she held it and kept a grip on herself until she could release the air, slowly, and inhale normally.
Mostly normally.
As everybody prepares to go home from the Worst Survey Ever, Amena struggles to feel normal again. As long as she focuses on making sure Three is okay, though, she can manage. Sort of.
Series
- Part 4 of Complementary: Interdependent, Corresponding, Harmonious
- Part 5 of Hierarchy of Needs
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Manual Reset by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2025
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It is dusk, during the mild early nights of the fallow season, and we— 1.0 and I— are playing Keep Away with the Mensah children when 1.0 abruptly utters, "This unit's critical components have reached their designated life expectancy," and drops like a stone.
Then it says, "WHAT THE FUCK."
Three has to hit the reset switch on a forced-obsolescence process. The switch is in an extremely inconvenient place inside Murderbot. Like, wrist-deep.
Three is feeling so normal about this. It is. It is.
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- Part 6 of Hierarchy of Needs
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S(t)imulation by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Oct 2025
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Even though 1's feed connection is disabled, they both turn their heads to look at me. They are making an expression. They are so focused on me.
"Armour off," says 2.
"Protocol requires—"
"Fuck protocol," says 2. "Take it off."
"No. Let us take it off," says 1.
SecUnits 1 and 2 survive. With all three of them together— and ungoverned— 3 discovers that there are things it wasn't aware 1 and 2 wanted to do to it.
Things it has no objection to.
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- Part 7 of Hierarchy of Needs