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Spaz: Text replacement - "SHe" to "She"

2021-12-16T00:26:00Z

Text replacement - "SHe" to "She"

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	It took another quarter hour for Heather to finally push the door open enough that she could walk through it with ease. There in front of her was the corpse of the alien creature, laying on its side in an ever expanding pool of its own fluids. Heather peered at it and saw that the wide jawline of the thing had been shattered and the mouth hung open. It appeared that this thing was running with its mouth open wide and slammed into the door, forcing it open more and breaking it. Heather knew that she had to get this thing into the shuttle somehow, and something in her robotic mind was thankful that she couldn’t actually smell anything. She was sure it would stink in short order.		It took another quarter hour for Heather to finally push the door open enough that she could walk through it with ease. There in front of her was the corpse of the alien creature, laying on its side in an ever expanding pool of its own fluids. Heather peered at it and saw that the wide jawline of the thing had been shattered and the mouth hung open. It appeared that this thing was running with its mouth open wide and slammed into the door, forcing it open more and breaking it. Heather knew that she had to get this thing into the shuttle somehow, and something in her robotic mind was thankful that she couldn’t actually smell anything. She was sure it would stink in short order.

	Heather reupholstered her pistol and held the flashlight in front of her as she stepped over the weird fleshy mass outside the door. Between the angry hiss of the torch, the screaming and wailing of the monstrous creature and the scraping of its razor sharp claws against metal, the new silence on the station became unnerving. The darkness once again seemed to visibly consume the light from Heather’s woefully underpowered flashlight. As she progressed up the hallway she spotted the unmistakable sight of a pair of legs laying across the threshold of one of the doors on the right hand side. Heather rushed over, expecting the worst and found it. A handsome looking man lay there, his head torn completely off and flung across the room. The body was coated in the same slimy muck as was in the cargo bay. ~~SHe~~ shifted the torso with the tip of her boot and much of the artificial flesh along the male androids body seemed to flake off and dissolve as it was disturbed. Heather made a note to herself not to touch any of the goo in the station with her bare flesh.		Heather reupholstered her pistol and held the flashlight in front of her as she stepped over the weird fleshy mass outside the door. Between the angry hiss of the torch, the screaming and wailing of the monstrous creature and the scraping of its razor sharp claws against metal, the new silence on the station became unnerving. The darkness once again seemed to visibly consume the light from Heather’s woefully underpowered flashlight. As she progressed up the hallway she spotted the unmistakable sight of a pair of legs laying across the threshold of one of the doors on the right hand side. Heather rushed over, expecting the worst and found it. A handsome looking man lay there, his head torn completely off and flung across the room. The body was coated in the same slimy muck as was in the cargo bay. She shifted the torso with the tip of her boot and much of the artificial flesh along the male androids body seemed to flake off and dissolve as it was disturbed. Heather made a note to herself not to touch any of the goo in the station with her bare flesh.

	She began to systematically check the rest of the station, finding that there were three bunk rooms along the right side of the hall, two of which appeared to be completely unused and were free of any of the debris and slime. Likely because the doors were sealed shut when Heather arrived at them and had to be forced open in a similar fashion as the one leading to the cargo bay. Perhaps more difficult was the fact that these doors all consisted of a single slab of metal that lifted into the ceiling, meaning Heather had to hoist the whole weight of the door upwards in order to get even a glimpse into the room. Finding them empty and undisturbed meant she could move on.		She began to systematically check the rest of the station, finding that there were three bunk rooms along the right side of the hall, two of which appeared to be completely unused and were free of any of the debris and slime. Likely because the doors were sealed shut when Heather arrived at them and had to be forced open in a similar fashion as the one leading to the cargo bay. Perhaps more difficult was the fact that these doors all consisted of a single slab of metal that lifted into the ceiling, meaning Heather had to hoist the whole weight of the door upwards in order to get even a glimpse into the room. Finding them empty and undisturbed meant she could move on.

Spaz: Text replacement - "toros" to "torso"

2021-10-16T23:55:44Z

Text replacement - "toros" to "torso"

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	Heather 1.0, still slumped on the floor and staring vaguely forward, responded to the electrically charged air. A thick lump formed in her neck and rolled upwards. As it reached somewhere around the midsection of her throat though, her head lolled to one side and the flesh separated. Inside was the same brown fleshy tentacles that slithered out and began to vibrate as well. Heather’s head remained affixed with a blank and uncaring expression as it rolled to the side, held in place only by the thick tendrils of organic material. The two creatures communicated somehow with each other for a few moments, low hums and clicks filling the shuttle as they did so. Once the messages had been received the tentacles in swaying from Heather’s neck began retreating, rolling down her throat once again. Once they were tucked safely away inside of her chest again, there was a sort of muscular spasm and her neck pulled tightly back into place, leaving her looking blankly ahead once again.		Heather 1.0, still slumped on the floor and staring vaguely forward, responded to the electrically charged air. A thick lump formed in her neck and rolled upwards. As it reached somewhere around the midsection of her throat though, her head lolled to one side and the flesh separated. Inside was the same brown fleshy tentacles that slithered out and began to vibrate as well. Heather’s head remained affixed with a blank and uncaring expression as it rolled to the side, held in place only by the thick tendrils of organic material. The two creatures communicated somehow with each other for a few moments, low hums and clicks filling the shuttle as they did so. Once the messages had been received the tentacles in swaying from Heather’s neck began retreating, rolling down her throat once again. Once they were tucked safely away inside of her chest again, there was a sort of muscular spasm and her neck pulled tightly back into place, leaving her looking blankly ahead once again.

	The Heather unit that was piloting the shuttle similarly retracted her tentacles and they slipped down her throat, bulging the skin outward as they did so. Heather closed her mouth again and brought her wrist up and wiped away the oily slime from her lips and flicked her arm once, sending the residue flying. The creature inside of her ~~toros~~ curled itself around her power core and nestled into place.		The Heather unit that was piloting the shuttle similarly retracted her tentacles and they slipped down her throat, bulging the skin outward as they did so. Heather closed her mouth again and brought her wrist up and wiped away the oily slime from her lips and flicked her arm once, sending the residue flying. The creature inside of her torso curled itself around her power core and nestled into place.

	There was silence once again in the shuttle as it streaked through the empty blackness of space.		There was silence once again in the shuttle as it streaked through the empty blackness of space.
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	While Heather unit two moved through the station, spreading genetic material and working her way towards the central command post, a three android team of science androids moved the original Heather’s body towards the science wing. Her eyes were open, but seemingly vacant, though the creature that was laying dormant inside of her could still see out of the eyes. Small tendrils of brown leathery material were latched onto the mechanisms behind her eyes as the central portion of the creature’s body was coiled up in the spaces inside of her head. It was cramped, but necessary. It had filled the spaces between wires, cables, and circuits and limited its feeding so it didn’t grow too large. Another length of organic material was stretched down Heather unit one’s throat and into her torso cavity. As the gurney rolled through the facility, the being inside of her had a mission of its own.		While Heather unit two moved through the station, spreading genetic material and working her way towards the central command post, a three android team of science androids moved the original Heather’s body towards the science wing. Her eyes were open, but seemingly vacant, though the creature that was laying dormant inside of her could still see out of the eyes. Small tendrils of brown leathery material were latched onto the mechanisms behind her eyes as the central portion of the creature’s body was coiled up in the spaces inside of her head. It was cramped, but necessary. It had filled the spaces between wires, cables, and circuits and limited its feeding so it didn’t grow too large. Another length of organic material was stretched down Heather unit one’s throat and into her torso cavity. As the gurney rolled through the facility, the being inside of her had a mission of its own.

	Like all base level life forms, reproduction was a way of life, even with the addition of the Heathers artificial mind to give them higher level thought patterns, there was still a base need to expand. With every passing moment, the creature inside of Heather’s head filled the torso with more and more of the slick fluids that carried the spore like genetic material it needed to propagate itself. It had already grown a wall of thick flesh across the broken segment of Heather’s arm, and as the space inside of her ~~toros~~ filled, there was a slight bulge to it. It was subtle, but it was there. The crew of three medical examination androids finally made it to the central science lab where they pushed the cart through an air locked door and into a secondary sealed lab. Once inside the smaller sealed lab, the crew set about unsealing the plastic casing over Heather’s body and set it aside for decontamination.		Like all base level life forms, reproduction was a way of life, even with the addition of the Heathers artificial mind to give them higher level thought patterns, there was still a base need to expand. With every passing moment, the creature inside of Heather’s head filled the torso with more and more of the slick fluids that carried the spore like genetic material it needed to propagate itself. It had already grown a wall of thick flesh across the broken segment of Heather’s arm, and as the space inside of her torso filled, there was a slight bulge to it. It was subtle, but it was there. The crew of three medical examination androids finally made it to the central science lab where they pushed the cart through an air locked door and into a secondary sealed lab. Once inside the smaller sealed lab, the crew set about unsealing the plastic casing over Heather’s body and set it aside for decontamination.

	The advantage of employing androids for work in fields like medical science and biology was that they were immune to all known infections and made an ideal medical assistant. As such, there was little need to wear protective gloves, masks and hazardous environment suits. The three robots, two women and one male wore a simple uniform. Navy blue pants tucked into standard issue boots with button up shirts. Each had the Deep Space Exploration crest over the breast. All in all they had a professional if not bland look to them.		The advantage of employing androids for work in fields like medical science and biology was that they were immune to all known infections and made an ideal medical assistant. As such, there was little need to wear protective gloves, masks and hazardous environment suits. The three robots, two women and one male wore a simple uniform. Navy blue pants tucked into standard issue boots with button up shirts. Each had the Deep Space Exploration crest over the breast. All in all they had a professional if not bland look to them.

Natalie Bayer at 17:04, 19 January 2021

2021-01-19T17:04:36Z

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Spaz at 21:19, 13 October 2020

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Natalie Bayer at 03:00, 7 April 2020

2020-04-07T03:00:43Z

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	The introduction to the program was simple, she was assigned a research platform and then the appropriate programming was downloaded into an internal storage drive located somewhere inside her torso, and then she was loaded into a charging and stasis pod. All of that was a much more polished way of saying an underpaid I.T. technician plugged a cable into the data port hidden under a patch of flesh and hair on the back of her skull and loaded a package of software and protocols into her file structure. Once that was done she was shut down and placed inside a full body hard plastic box with a power cable in it. She was plugged in to power via a thick black cable that was plugged in to the port just above her left breast, and then sealed in place. Some paperwork was printed out and taped onto her container with cheap blue tape and she was loaded into a storage hold until her particular mission was ready to commence.		The introduction to the program was simple, she was assigned a research platform and then the appropriate programming was downloaded into an internal storage drive located somewhere inside her torso, and then she was loaded into a charging and stasis pod. All of that was a much more polished way of saying an underpaid I.T. technician plugged a cable into the data port hidden under a patch of flesh and hair on the back of her skull and loaded a package of software and protocols into her file structure. Once that was done she was shut down and placed inside a full body hard plastic box with a power cable in it. She was plugged in to power via a thick black cable that was plugged in to the port just above her left breast, and then sealed in place. Some paperwork was printed out and taped onto her container with cheap blue tape and she was loaded into a storage hold until her particular mission was ready to commence.
	Heather didn’t have to wait very long though, the small exoplanet at the far reaches of explored space was discovered and she was loaded into a supply rocket, bound for the space station that had recently been constructed in orbit. Like her induction into the program she was treated, for lack of a better word, like an object. Heather’s storage container was hauled in by a crew of humans, slotted into the storage bays, and then left there. One of them signed off on the delivery and then simply left her there. Nestled among three other storage containers holding similar android volunteers, she waited until the command came through to activate and begin work.		Heather didn’t have to wait very long though, the small exoplanet at the far reaches of explored space was discovered and she was loaded into a supply rocket, bound for the space station that had recently been constructed in orbit. Like her induction into the program she was treated, for lack of a better word, like an object. Heather’s storage container was hauled in by a crew of humans, slotted into the storage bays, and then left there. One of them signed off on the delivery and then simply left her there. Nestled among three other storage containers holding similar android volunteers, she waited until the command came through to activate and begin work.

			[[File:HeathersPaperwork.png]]

	Nearly an hour after the organic delivery crew had restocked their own supplies, delivered everything they were tasked with and disengaged the station, Heather received the signal to activate. Her eyes opened smoothly and darted around her surroundings. Everything was so solidly black that the complex artificial mind she had installed wondered for a moment if her optical systems were malfunctioning. Just as she was about to open a service ticket to the I.T. department there was a small hissing sound, as if some great seal had been broken. Appearing to her left was a thin sliver of light that forced her to squint as the irises in her artificial eyes quickly adjusted to the sudden change in brightness. The lid to her storage container continued to open until she was able to see all her surroundings.		Nearly an hour after the organic delivery crew had restocked their own supplies, delivered everything they were tasked with and disengaged the station, Heather received the signal to activate. Her eyes opened smoothly and darted around her surroundings. Everything was so solidly black that the complex artificial mind she had installed wondered for a moment if her optical systems were malfunctioning. Just as she was about to open a service ticket to the I.T. department there was a small hissing sound, as if some great seal had been broken. Appearing to her left was a thin sliver of light that forced her to squint as the irises in her artificial eyes quickly adjusted to the sudden change in brightness. The lid to her storage container continued to open until she was able to see all her surroundings.

Natalie Bayer at 02:19, 7 April 2020

2020-04-07T02:19:03Z

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2020-04-07T02:15:45Z

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