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On the anniversary of her sixteenth year in her shell, Helva was unconditionally graduated and installed in her ship, the Aj.
Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.
The neural, audio, visual and sensory connections were made and sealed.
Her extendibles were diverted, connected or augmented and the final, delicate-beyond-description brain taps were completed while Helva remained anesthetically unaware of the proceedings.
When she awoke, she was the ship.
Her brain and intelligence controlled every function from navigation to such loading as a scout ship of her class needed.
She could take care of herself and her ambulatory half, in any situation already recorded in the annals of Central Worlds and any situation its most fertile minds could imagine.

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