Trespasser's data was forwarded to the appropriate departments for decisions, despite the lack of personnel at those stations. It had then safeguarded the life of the visitor as it had not attacked the inhabitants of the City. That there had been no inhabitants for over a billion years was besides the point and not really addressed on the checklist anyway.
Eventually it backtracked the atmospheric entry and determined likely point of origin as being from a wormhole, and then back from there through k-space to any one of two thousand three hundred and twelve potential star systems.
Noting that there were currently a lot of system resources available (many systems had shut down but the equivelant of servers had darn little in the way of competing demands), the City began eliminating star systems as possible origin points.
When it found a likely one, it studied the system further. Eventually it had narrowed choices down to two.
One was an incredibly primitive and polluted world with similarly primitive and polluted lifeforms. The other wasn't much different.
The City dealt with the trespasser, then went back to the same vacant processes it had maintained for the past millenia. Notes were sent to workstations that the trespasser had been returned to their point of origin, and that a full report on findings would be placed in the appropriate areas.
Meanwhile, Ranma was discovering he was back on Earth. However, Earth was a big place and he was NOT conveniently waking up in the Tendo Dojo.
At first he'd been surrounded by golden fire and had melted a crater into the asphalt where he'd been lying. Eventually he was able to push the pain away and read a sign, puzzling out the romanji letters to read:
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