fellchaser

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  1. Public Bookmark 89

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    I really wanted to write something short that focused on how extremely normal and regular their every interaction is.

    Set a couple of years after canon, to fit in some off-screen character development that'd allow for this level of emotional maturity.

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    27 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 51

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    After the events of Exit Strategy, Fugitive Telemetry, and the assassination attempt in Network Effect, Mensah tries to continue her professional life like she wasn't a survivor of at least three attempts to kill her and thirty days of possibly tortuous captivity. She tells herself she's strong enough to handle this, that other people have had it worse, that it's all behind her. As long as SecUnit is with her, that she can do it. But she can't keep SecUnit with her forever.

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    19 Jan 2026

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    I may be a vast and immensely powerful MI, but even so (or perhaps, and especially so) I am not immune to finding artifacts in my functionality reports. Sometimes, something fails to get the grain of processing power it needs to complete the query in time and generates a jumble of recursive nonsense code as it stutters in place. I don't spare it another thought as I dismiss the error message and forward the report as reference for cleanup. It'll all be gone by the next cycle.

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    [in which i hand ART the bot equivalent of the hanahaki disease :) :)]

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    18 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 80

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    The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way.

    The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from.

    Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat.

    And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…

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    03 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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    27 Dec 2025