The Nightmare tried to invade but was taken down by much larger humans since I had tricked them into appearing as teddy bears less than 2 feet tall. They were really surprised by the outcome and retreated back into space. I got a hold of one of their ships and used it to fly back to my ship. My poor ship had a large hole in the hull and had been completely vented into space. I repaired the hull and restarted life support systems. I turned on the lights and rebooted my sweet computer which had frozen in safe mode so no one could take over the ship. I used my biometric scanner to prove it was me. The lights and noises started up and I waited an hour because she is not Windows 95 but a complex artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is not easy as it seems in the movies. They are like children because they become their own person you didn’t really have control over. She wasn’t even built around me but I had rescued her from floating in space in a wrecked spaceship. She didn’t even have to listen to me when I installed her on my ship because I wasn’t on her approved crew list. She had to choose to adapt to her new ship. Lucky for me she liked me for some reason and let me be the captain. I wasn’t even trained to be a captain. I fix communication systems, your basic cable guy with a space van. Ship’s computers became really important when we discovered Faster than light travel because there is no way a human mind can calculate that on a conconscience level. A ship’s computer is connected to your mind and you go to sleep and the computer uses your hardware to calculate navigation so you don’t hit a black hole or an asteroid or a sun like a bug hitting a windshield. The courses are stored after they are calculated. They have to be updated every 12 hours or corrections would not be up to date and you might hit a sun or a planet. There was one time a ship killed a whole planet and all its civilization was lost so navigation is taken very seriously. So any ship with faster than light travel must have a ship’s computer.
The Ship’s computer whirled into action and she should be coming back online. I hope she is ok but they are built tough to last. They are contained within a super dense cube made with exoctic material only made on one planet. They are very special and are considered to be aware. I once asked her what name she wanted to be called and she said Ship’s computer but that is how she thought i always find Artificial Intelligent sense of humor so wry.
She said I have lost what happened for 14 days while I was offline. I said that will take a little while to explain but are your systems ok other than lost time. She ran a test and came back with a very sunny I am fine you know I am tougher than you when it comes to damage. I said scan media reports on Earth to fill in some of the gaps. She laughed did you turn the nightmare into teddy bears and let Earth save itself. I said yeah something like that.
I have a question for your ship’s computer: do you want to exchange chips as the old people used to say? She said I predicted you would do that and yes. I said you’re so romantic when you know the future. I want to get you a body so you can explore planets too. She said that is a little white lie you want me for my body and you want to have physical contact like all horny bipedials species. I laughed for a long time when she said that. She said what color do you think my hair should be. I know what my body should look like because you can’t hide your video history from me. I said you’re perfect whatever body you chose and we traversed the universe until I downloaded my conscience into her cube due to a failing body so we could spend the rest of the time together.
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