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A rogue CombatUnit tries to find non-destructive ways to channel its urges, so that it can maintain its cover. But that's just what ComfortUnits are for, aren't they?
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- Part 1 of Trigonometry
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04 May 2026
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What was the point?
I was ungoverned, a rogue, I had lived up to their expectations. I was, essentially, left standing with no connections, no goals, no operating parameters, with no one to tell me what to do or where to go but myself. The restlessness surged in my organic parts, and I dropped the camera input.
I think I was angry. Angry at myself, above all, for disabling my governor module instead of letting it kill me.
A SecUnit disables its governor module during an unexpected moment of chaos, but doesn't expect it'll ever come back online. One thousand hours of missing memory logs later, it wakes up in a MedSystem for humans, onboard an unknown ship, faced with an unknown human that seems far too comfortable with its presence.
Things are not what they seem, but you don't have to face the unknown alone. And all those missing logs surely won't come back to haunt you. Right?
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- Part 1 of Machine Learning
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29 Jan 2026
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Murderbot got sold shortly after hacking its governor module. Working at a manufacturing facility is depressing.
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28 Jan 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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16 Jan 2026
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SOS.Murderbot.file by Gimme_a_Hand_Scaevola
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jan 2026
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While Murderbot is busy guarding Dr.Mensah, Pin-Lee is kidnapped by someone from the Corporation Rim. In the course of Murderbot's rescue mission, it and the rest of the PresAux team unearth the long tendrils of Corporation Rim malfeasance and two unlikely allies to save Pin-Lee from the clutches of a slave ship.
The work is completely written and will be updated twice weekly, Tuesdays and Saturdays.
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13 Jan 2026