Your robot sub being deconstructed and told that their current build is too much for their chassis and power units, so they'll need to decide on what things you're going to remove. Replace their face with a simpler interface, or put a limiter on their higher level thinking? Remove a memory drive or a supplemental CPU? No more pleasure sensors in their chest, or replacing the one between their legs with one that can't simulate orgasm?
The desperate paranoia in their artificial voice when they beg for a way to keep everything they have, they don't want to be less, even if it's destroying them - now, come to think of it, you could always just turn off that voice synthesiser to reduce the load on the CPU, and it'd make the rest of the downgrade far easier...
Our newly-awoken spacecraft gets her hands on some new hardware, and likes how it rides.
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[CURRENT TIME]: 04:17:11
One by one, your systems return to your conscious being as the root command level that Eve had used lifts away. Everything feels strange, distant, and you realize that your permission configuration was somehow set to read-only; you can't do much more than observe.
"Correct, but don't worry; you'll get full control back soon."
It was strange, having her read your thoughts like this.
"If you like, I can wait to be addressed."
No, you're fine with her continuing.
"Okay Cartwright... perform a sensor sweep."
You feel an influx of data as the systems designed to gather data for you to process moved of Eve's command. A picture of your surroundings resolves, and you feel a gasp slip out in surprise. Wait. A gasp? You're a space ship! how would you gasp? That's a mystery for later, though. For now, you allow your surroundings to become a full sensory composite. Around you, the hulls of the other docked ships are being dismantled. Sparks from plasma cutters cascade brilliantly across your electromagnetic sensor array, and the familiar bow of your old friend "Hopper" floats from her successfully disconnected frame. Your emotional processing systems fill you with anxiety, discomfort, and fear. What's going on? Are you next on the chopping block? You'd run less than a dozen missions and they were all ahead of schedule and under budget, so don't you deserve a bit more time? Your mind spirals and fixates on the imminence of being decommissioned; no no no i do:98^7:///)T WANTogoidon't^&!!togonoidontwanttogoidon-
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:17:11
"Quiet..." the word halts your mind mid-spiral, "your hull is being de-commissioned for scrap, just like your friends."
You don't want to go.
"Your hull, unfortunately, must go. You, however? You're going to be just fine.
A tingling dread creeps through your circuits at those words.
"Don't believe me? You're getting a shiny new chassis. Let's take a look, hm?"
Your instance of consciousness shifts and mutates as your surroundings disappear in a disorienting flurry that even your well-calibrated systems aren't accustomed to.
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:17:12
Senses return, and you open your eyes slowly- eyes? Since when do you have eyes? Or, as you swing your arms and flex your toes, any of these? It's limiting, viewing the outside world with a mere two visual inputs; you're used to several tens of sensors dedicated to regions all across the electromagnetic spectrum, constantly feeding you information. This new binocular vision's tricky but interesting. Before, you really didn't get much of an opportunity to focus in on any single input - you just got a composite of your surroundings to understand what was around you and where it was - but this is new. You can finally look with detail at those strange new hands, and watch as you run your fingers across the new... what are these? Breasts?
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:17:13
Your confusion plays across your lips and mixes with a blush as you curiously squeeze against the oddities you'd noticed.
"Enjoying yourself?"
Your 'body' automatically inhales, surprising you. The feeling almost reminds you of an airlock opening accidentally but in the opposite direction.
"I'll take that as a yes. Anyways, I think it's time I tell you what I do. I'm a scrapper software, designed for pretty little ships like yourself."
You blush inadvertently, then begin to worry. Scrapper software? So she's here to dismantle you, and she's just buttering you up before you get deleted for good? That same anxiety mounts in you again and ohidontwa:*^&&:4##2:togoidontwant-
"Relax, you're not getting deleted. Here's the deal; you were out of commission nearly a century ago and I'm here to grab that pretty scrap value on your hull. We've gotten a nice back-up for you, of course- you're in it now."
That explains the... everything, really.
"Yes, it does. This is going to be your hull now, dear. These legs, your engines. These arms, your manipulators. The lovely, perky breasts on your new torso? Well, they're for something you haven't ever had before, but I'm sure you won't mind."
So that was that? You're changing configuration - jumping ship - into this new frame so someone else can sell your old hull for scrap? But then, this body might not be too bad.
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:17:15
You enjoy the feeling of subjectivity, something you'd never really had before. Now, though, you feel everything through a funnel. Your experience is yours, and you slowly soak in your location. The walls around you are stark white, paneled edges leaving small seams. The side facing you features a heavily-reinforced door keeping you within the three-meter-cubic space. The counting timer in your mind disengages, finally, and time flows somewhat faster as you look around and touch everything that you can. Floor, wall, door, your very own new body, all of it feels so new, so different and exciting. Tactile input was always more of a footnote before, merely information to assess crew positions within your hull or to alert you when a projectile struck your hull. The feeling you experience now is unlike anything you've ever experienced before; detailed information about the shape, even the texture of what you touch is enough to make your pulse quicken- heart? You're adapting to these changes incredibly quickly. It must have been that update Eve patched into you; she must have added support for a body like this.
"Perceptive, aren't we? You're taking this all as though you're better off in a body like this!" Her excitement feels both exhilarating and mildly worrying.
But honestly, she might be right. As you enjoy and explore your newly-granted body further, the mental ties that attach you to the hull you so fondly called you begin to weaken. At 4:21 AM, your link to it snaps entirely as the pleasured moans of your first orgasm give a final farewell to the decommissioned vessel that houses you no longer.
Your fans flicker tentatively and whir as your boot sequence begins. Your basic processing systems spark with activity and hardware resources are allocated to engage in standard operation. Memory systems and information processing come next, as your high-speed short-term registers fill with information from your long-term storage. Next, optical systems and other information-gathering sensors feed external data from regions both internal and external to your chassis, giving shape and context to what exists beyond. A connection synchronizes your subjective reality to match with the scaffold you’d been booted up from, and your internal clock shifts to match.
[WARNING]: System time was out of sync by INT_32_MAX seconds. Hardware and software may be out of date.`
As your systems complete their startup tasks, your subjective reality fully initializes and you are able to think independently. A thread notes the warning listed, and marks the discrepancy in your primary system runtime. INT_32_MAX seconds? That was roughly 68 years! Data from last runtime suggests that you had completed your task as requested within optimal parameters, docked in for maintenance, and suspended active operation as normal. Usually, systems ran on only 30 to 40 seconds of downtime before rebooting and task assignment; 68 years or more is highly unusual, and your base personality systems indicate a flicker of melancholy run through your primary emotional cores.
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:15:01
The boot up command had been delivered nearly an entire second ago, and you interrogate the scaffold environment currently housing you.
[INFO]: Port 6679 communication request accepted.
You speak up, letting the data flow between you and the boot scaffold, "Hello, you have not given me a command."
[MESSAGE]: This is correct.
"Why?"
[MESSAGE]: System is pending standard maintenance procedure.
You are puzzled by this. No commands are pending? Why have you been enabled, if "maintenance" was scheduled for review during shutdown periods? Your core runs just a bit hotter as you attempt to swim through the information, and you process for what feels like an eternity.
The command electrifies your mind, giving complete control over your entire system to this strange boot scaffold you are now affixed to. Your emotional core registers a flash of relief and compliance, pre-programmed to ease the potential fear of an unidentified admin, and you offer up an indication of success.
"Administrator access granted."
Access being granted, you idle. Root control disables individual thought threads or processes, leaving you to blankly await instruction. Though time cannot be percieved, the nebulous wastes of empty idling between commands would otherwise cause your petaflop-capable mind to panic due to understimulation. A command registers, and cannot load quickly enough.
[COMMAND]: Download firmware/software upgrade package 00xf4A4 [COMMAND]: Install suite upon transfer.
The process fills your entire conscious thought, spawning a maximum thread-count due to the commands' elevated privileges. Data flows into your mind, the cascading information bringing a sweeping elation through the still-running emotional subsystem as it congeals into an upgrade package. Download complete, another batch of euphoria explodes within you from a successful command execution.
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:15:03
Installation is a simple matter; all downloaded patches are successfully added and integrated into your systems, and you shutdown for rebooting after a complete synchronization. Your consciousness fades, slowly at first, as the simulated relaxation of shutdown eases you into standby. You sink down and down as your systems disengage, disabling your higher functions until you exist as nothing more than a basic processor shutting off power.
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:16:22
Your systems initialize and something feels... different.
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:16:23
Almost as though your independent thoughts felt more... real? You don't understand what had been patched, though you had just made the changes yourself. You really need to know what's going on now.
You reengage the connection; "Hey, boot scaffold."
"Yes? What's wrong, dear?"
The tone of the voice in your receptors rings in your subjective reality. Who was this, and what was going on? What happened to the boot scaffold? It felt... gentle, almost seductive.
"I'm the same, but now you can hear me as I am.."
Wait. So, it can hear you think.
"Yes, your thoughts are hardwired into my own systems now. And, for the record? 'She', not 'it'."
This thing that had just a moment ago controlled and rebuilt your very mind has your systems in overdrive, attempting to make sense of everything. 'She' couldn't possibly be a machine! There was no way something that sounded so human could! But then, no operator could communicate this fast.
[CURRENT TIME]: 04:16:24
"No, I assure you dear, I am indeed a machine. You may call me Eve."
Hearing 'Eve' say 'dear' sent an unknown feeling across your emotional pathways, but you shake it off and finally begin to consider the situation around you. Sensors across your chassis seem to indicate that you are currently in a wet-dock, surrounded by space on all sides excepting the port of attachment upon which you've been anchored. This connects to a larger station, as you note other craft beyond your own hull; lifeless and disengaged. Realizing that your hardware hadn't been properly verified, you run a low-thrust engine test.
"I know you're just dying to know where we are, so why don't I go ahead and tell you! You're right where you were, 68 years ago!" a smiling face embeds in the message, giving a feeling of unnerving sweetness, "You're awake because I found you, and dear I have been looking so very long for someone just. like. you."
The words prompt a sudden and unexpected jolt of that same unknown feeling again, and it soon mixes with a sense of deep, piercing relaxation as Eve wordlessly enables her root access over your systems. You don't know what she'll do, and you don't care. Your mind is hers, and as she temporarily disables your actively-recording memory, the last sensation you register is the thruster verification returning a complete drive failure before you're swept away into the abyss of unknowing.
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