In the meantime he'd found a device set into the wall which could produce food. The first thing he'd gotten was something with tentacles that thrashed and squirmed in the plastic bowl for five minutes. After that he'd worked out something a bit more consumable.
Not that he was a picky eater, but that had been a bit much.
So far everyone he knew had had the same treatment. The originals were sent off to be sold at "Sales Facility #41" - wherever THAT was.
Which brought him back to the 'conversion' problem. If the original body was off somewhere being sold, what was 'converted' to be floating in some tube?
Looking around, he thought he'd gotten an idea. This technology stuff was outside his expertise. He just didn't have the basics, so what he'd do was wake someone up so that someone at the keyboard knew what they were doing.
That left who to wake up.
Of course, one of the things that had gotten him interested was finding out why HE had gotten here and hadn't been replaced.
Apparently he hadn't been replaced because there had been something wrong with the duplication process, but the explanation didn't make any sense to him.
The reason he'd been awoken from the 'Nerima simulation' was something else altogether.
ERROR - Ship halted.
Collision with asteroid mass 0.385 has eliminated bridge and primary control.
Crew lifesigns negative.
Control of system negative.
Organic unit required for executive decision making.
Solution: Single organic on board specified as new commander.
"So I'm Captain, eh?" asked Ranma as he took that in. Hmmm. Captain Ranma Saotome of the starship Whateveritis. Kinda had a nice ring to it. A five year mission, to explore strange new worlds with mysterious martial arts, etc. He could do that, maybe.
Of course, he was a captain of a ship that was sitting at a dead stop at roughly fifteen light-years from Earth. That wasn't so good.
Ranma tapped out a series of commands on the keyboard, finally getting some better responses.
Suitable Subject Found - Intelligence and motor skills within required parameters
Emplacing loyalty and CoC directives.
Downloading information (General Engineering and Ship Systems)
Designating subject as Chief Engineer.
Processing. Decanting Subject When Viable.
Ranma got another bowl of rice and something that could pass for soy sauce, plus a cup of really strong sort-of tea. He was going to have help, someone he could turn to for answers, and that was:
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