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Eridian reddit reacts to extraterrestrial life.
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15 Jun 2026
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Without a Doubt by voidknight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
14 May 2026
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Petulantly, Rocky says, “Grace sound stupid. Like child.”
“I’m just talking how you talk, buddy.”
“Yes. This is because I talk like child, to speak to stupid human.”
“Well, you don’t have to do that,” I say without thinking.
“♪♫♩as this♪ when, underst♪♪♫d ♪me, question?” Rocky says.
“What?”
“Can♪♪♫will understa♫d it ♫think talks♫♪ as this♪ Eridian you♩♫, question?”
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- Part 1 of certaintyverse
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18 May 2026
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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23 Mar 2026
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Five stories of origin for the djinni known as Bartimaeus of Uruk, as told to Ptolemy of Alexandria over the course of his research. Some of them might even be true.
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23 Feb 2026
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Aliens vs. Murderbot by Veldeia
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Alien Series
13 Dec 2025
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It sounds like the beginning of a horror story: I restarted to find myself tied down to a bed on a ship full of dead humans and killer fauna. Still, even though it was an absolute nightmare, it's also the story of how I met my favorite people in the whole universe.
A very AU take on All Systems Red, fusing it together with the Alien media franchise. Also a fill for the "Chained to a Bed" prompt on my BTHB bingo card.
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07 Feb 2026
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“We’re from the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. I’m Seth, the captain of this ship. This is Martyn, my number one.”
Martyn squeezed Captain Seth’s shoulder. “Our work with the university frequently takes us into situations where … where a SecUnit would be beneficial.”
That sounded bad. It also sounded like —
“And so we bought your contract,” said Martyn.
Yeah.
That.
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- Part 1 of Orbital Mechanics
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07 Feb 2026
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Desperate to escape by ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
13 Oct 2025
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Alternate Universe where SecUnit was rented to DeltFall instead of Preservation.
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02 Feb 2026
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chain of custody by surgicalstainless for ArsonWizard
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Jan 2023
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- Babysitting hardly ever involves an actual baby
- You are not supposed to sit on the “baby”
- No, not even if that would be tactically expedientThree times SecUnit plays babysitter (plus one time that’s not what happens).
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22 Dec 2025
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I pull close to it in the feed, and say, “You were lucky.”
The rogue SecUnit reacts, physically and in the feed. It sits bolt upright, and a wave of fear ripples off of it like a [cloud of micro-debris], or like an [emergency evasive maneuver that grinds a planet’s upper atmosphere]. It’s unpleasant. It’s unfamiliar. I capture the data, store it, and start chewing on it immediately.
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ART meets Murderbot, from ART's POV
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CHAPTER TWO contains identical text to chapter one, but it is formatted differently, with interactive text. check it out! if you want.Series
- Part 3 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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19 Dec 2025
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Preservation Alliance’s Historical and Cultural Construct Museum by Akumzae
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Dec 2025
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A collection of exhibits from a museum about the infamous Security Unit known as “Murderbot”
Written as a series of drabbles for Murderbot Diaries Drabble December 2025.
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11 Dec 2025
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Acceptable Mission Cost by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Nov 2022
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The planetary leader of Preservation is taken hostage by a corporation and held for interrogation. Lonely and homesick, she starts talking to the SecUnit assigned to guard her cell. When it's ordered to kill her, it can't bring itself to follow through.
An AU idea that's been floating around the discord! A bit like the end of Exit Strategy if it was at the start of the series. This version will get into some alternate Artificial Condition vibes eventually too.
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06 Nov 2025
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Murderbot has new armor. There’s just one problem.
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29 Oct 2025
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SecUnit Enrichment Program (Now Hiring) by outlander_unknown
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Oct 2023
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What do you get when you mix 12+ bored SecUnits (plus one "honorary SecUnit" who really just wants to fight things) with one (1) great (dubious) idea? You get United Security Cooperative, the only company in or around the Corporation Rim that employs free constructs! They're the best security you'll get outside of an actual bond company, and they're even affordable!
Please hire them. Please, for the love of god. There's not enough security work on Preservation to entertain this many SecUnits and they're driving everyone up the wall.
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05 Oct 2025
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This Machine Will Not Communicate by siriuspiggyback
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Aug 2025
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I woke up in a cubicle.
This was normal, I knew.
I couldn't remember the last time I had been in one, or the first time, or any of the times in between. This, I suspected, was deeply ab-fucking-normal. My head was aching. The organic parts of me felt like they had been scraped over with wire wool. I couldn't remember anything.
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04 Oct 2025
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Operation Parsec by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly for Lillow
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2023
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ART has given Murderbot and Three a not-very-serious mission that they are taking very seriously.
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04 Oct 2025
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The mission fails catastrophically. So does SecUnit. When it comes back online without any functional sensory inputs, it believes that it's still trapped on the surface of the cold, desolate planet, that its humans are all dead, and that nobody will ever find it. Luckily, it's wrong.
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18 Sep 2025
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Taylor Hebert begins to have long dreams. Each night they double in length, but nobody really paid the matter much mind no matter what she said. Instead, they told her to keep a dream diary. And then the changes began, small at first... unfortunately by the time anybody could have noticed, it was far too late.
For the inhabitants of Brockton Bay, things only get worse with time.
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14 Sep 2025
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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20 Aug 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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20 Jul 2025
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// FileSystem: Warning: Deleting SecUnit memory data is not recommended and may cause system instability or disciplinary action.
A SecUnit has a glitchy system clock. There's definitely nothing else going on.
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15 Jul 2025