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    BE003821: System System: Unit acknowledge
    TC007634: Acknowledged
    BE003821: Unusual activity detected in Sector 6. Request input
    TC007634: Report
    BE003821: [24-06-74-15.img]
    TC007634: Processing
    TC007634: Three.
    TC007634: that's a still image of the view out the sector 6 porthole.
    BE003821: Confirm, request input
    TC007634: are you asking my opinion of the picture?

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    SecUnit 3 makes an attempt to establish a team rapport.

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    05 Mar 2024

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    Despite his best efforts, he wants the SecUnit to be one of them. He will never voice it. He will never ask it. It would be pointless. Where the SecUnit is concerned, his feet bleed as he walks the cutting edge between suspicion and hope.
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    From All Systems Red through Exit Strategy.
    Gurathin's perspective on a certain murderbot.

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    04 Mar 2024

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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.

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    04 Mar 2024

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    This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?

    Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?

    Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.

    This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.

    Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.

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    (When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)

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    04 Mar 2024

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    Ryou, a relentlessly repressed and controlled accountant, accidentally slips between dimensions. Since he's a practical, cautious man and not a complete idiot, he retraces his steps and slips right back out again, but he brought someone along with him. And now his life is going to take a sharp turn away from "repressed" and "controlled" to very strange places indeed: into a warped image of the past and into a very uncertain future, through war and violence, to the very edges of reality and beyond.

    (Now cross-posted to RoyalRoad under the account Mal Chants, with cover art!)

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    18 Jan 2024