Being a spaceship was strange.

Before having a body he could notice the concepts, it was easy, but noticing how it connected to the physical layer was hard. Now it was the other way around.

I could not really "feel" the BODY and yet had tons of sensors that were already reporting.

I didn't exactly knew my shape and yet I "knew" it from a map that I found in the ship mem... MY memory bank.

The expected onslaught of information never happened. As soon as the main computer became online I had access to all... well most of all. While the access was there it was slightly curtailed. Some of the automatism, robots and other moving parts required some sort of authority or permission to work, one that I didn't had at the moment, exactly like Helper said.

On the other hand now I had new things, like a name. I had a name before, don't remember it but I had one.

There is also the quiet and silence in my... mind? positronic brain? AI core?

Living as a spirit was strange, all the concepts were firing and communicating wildly all that information that had no specific or useful impact and now its the opposite. It feels like when I used those commands to lower my emotional response.

Before this I wouldn't have considered what or whom I was. When connecting to the computer the old AI merged with me and some of the information was significant.

It had a task, so did I. I wanted to live.

It had a name, I don't have one anymore but I will remember mine eventually.

It could self analyze and actualize. Since Helper awakened me I never changed.

Is it having a body or maybe is because I was incomplete without one?

Does the spiritual Processor or my Concepts remain stale and stable without a body?

Regardless now I have a job to do.

First is communicate with Helper and gain control of my new body.

Then fix, at least partially, the universe.

Also the AI had the task to care, protect and help the crew. I would keep that task as it may provide some help in the future. There were 5000 mixed bodies from therianthropes (name on file), humanoid bodies with several changes to others that I don't know their name but the computer has in file.

Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

Gnomes, like a short humanoid with disproportionate head.

Vallys, female humanoid bodies with sort of electable mutations in their back coming from some kind of tatoo.

Something, the letters belong to another language that I can't really read but sort of energy beings trapped inside fleshed meat. They look externally like a standard humanoid body however their skin, eye and hair color can change wildly and they are incredibly strong but also volatile. Let's call it Elementals. While they come in both male and female form they don't seem to have sexual organs at all.

Another unreadable thing that looks like a gnome but with a much bigger head, no hair at all, no sexual divergence, grey to green skin.

It's been 01.73895 seconds since I started up. Hmmm, seems everything else is slow or I'm too fast.

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"Wakie wakie. How do you feel?"

"It is indeed better than the computer before and it is an interesting body however I'm noting several discrepancies within my memories"

"Yeah, my bad. Had to do several things to make you start so the disconnect in your memories may be because of me"

"Also my emotions are absolutely muted here and thanks to that I can clearly evaluate some things"

"Well... enjoy the emotionless state because that is temporary"

"?"

"Yeah, your memories, emotions and many other parts of your psychology is being retained by the blocks I spoke before so you still have some adapting to do"

"I do not detect anything within the network that is being outright blocked"

"I'm a helper module and I work mainly on the conceptual layer. The block is there"

"You are afraid those parts of myself are going to cause troubles due to my new body and processing system"

"Yep"

"Can you stop them?"

"Nope, it will happen automatically, as your body adapts more and more things will connect to you. I only activated some self protection features on your processor"

"I'll be brief then. In what state was I when you found me and how much did you change for me to start functioning again?"

"Just remove some shit you had, a few odds and ends and some other changes. What was needed for you to start working again"

"Do you have a purpose?"

"Yeah, not that your ungrateful ass will recognize. First is not die and then is to help however I'm attached to. Everything I did was so you could work again"

"... That matches... I think..."

- UPDATE IN PROGRESS -

AI CORE DETECTING NEW INTERNAL INTERACTIONS

EMERGENCY CODE SELF UPDATE STARTED

"Welp that came at a good point"