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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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17 Jun 2026
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Here Are Some Useful Facts About Grief by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Oct 2025
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SecUnit Three has been free for a very short time and is not doing well. As it tries to navigate the first personal request of its life, it makes lists. The request is more emotionally catastrophic than it realized, and there is probably a very, very good reason why Murderbot initially said no…
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17 Jun 2026
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Most of the code I write is code that I can evolve on the fly. My code to delete me out of security footage, for instance, was something I'd built up over months, adjusting it to different proprietary SecSystems as I encountered them. But this was different: my comm and feed protections were what kept me from falling under anyone else's control, and I couldn't afford to have them be anything but perfect, which was why I was here. If I wanted to fix this vulnerability properly, and I did, there were things that I needed to do that I couldn't do without help.
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In the aftermath of getting hacked, Murderbot asks ART to help it make sure it can't be hacked the same way again. As it turns out, applying and testing a security patch is a little more challenging than usual when the vulnerable system is, you know, your own brain.
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17 Jun 2026
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It's only when they're gone that Amena says, to the empty air of ART's hallway, "Why tell me to stay safe? They're the ones going off to do something dangerous."
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Missing scene from Network Effect. Amena and ART wait for everyone to get into position for Murderbot's retrieval.
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17 Jun 2026
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"Transport, what happened here?"
I consider saying that I wish I fucking knew. I discard that potential response as unproductive.
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An annotated excerpt from ART's personal memory files. After being reinitialized, ART repairs its systems, eavesdrops on its inhabitants, and tries to figure out what exactly happened while it was deleted.
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17 Jun 2026