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  1. Public Bookmark 63

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    A series of fics following SecUnit003 from immediately after Network Effect through into post-canon Situations(tm). Each instalment involves Three either learning something important about itself as a person or making its life harder by writing overly-complicated programs for itself to follow.

    All parts are listed in chronological order even if publication dates are scattered.

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    20 Jun 2026

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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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    17 Jun 2026

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    Sam 15 starts a new contract at an industrial platform on asteroid ST-234o23iu4. // SecUnit9123 does its job as the lone SecUnit on duty while XtraCor chews up workers and spits them out—until it can't anymore.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    The pings were all from Overse’s interface and routed from a transit ring called Trans-All, the kind of ping that was just are you in range – are you in range – are you in range. It was a call for help and it fucking terrified me, because I was answering it way, way too late.

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    Ratthi goes missing. Pin-Lee isn't used to losing. Murderbot isn't used to having anything to lose.

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    12 Jun 2026

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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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    12 Jun 2026