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[[caption-width-right:350:I lived all my life wanting to explore space, and now here I am in space? Awesome!]] Fulll Title: Waking Up As a Spaceship!? What's a Girl Supposed To Do Now? Author pseudonym Kotohood, available on [[https://www.scribblehub.com/series/93826/waking-up-as-a-spaceship-whats-a-ship-girl-supposed-to-do-now/ scribblehub]] and [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/30454/waking-up-as-a-spaceship-whats-a-ship-girl-supposed royalroad]]The S.A.S. Abyssal is a ship powered by an AI by the same name who apparently was a male space fanboy, but woke up as a female Living Core. Her ship is adrift, derelict, with no navigational or astrogating data, badly damaged, and with an uranium powered reactor running on fumes, powered only by the decay of radioactive isotopes. Abyssal has no choice but to fly blind until she ''maybe'' finds her way to civilization. She loots an even worse derelict to find some batteries that at least help her manage her meager power reserves and her first mate, Kuon. She then chances upon a distress signal, finds the pilot which sent the signal dead [[MissedHimByThatMuch just a little over a day before her arrival]], and gets the jump on pirates who came to loot the place [[FakingTheDead by faking being the source of the signal, as a dead fighter]], rescues a cat-girl slave prisoner and jails the pirates, finally getting that astrogating data she needs, and trying to gain her independence by mining the nearby asteroids in exchange for supplies. During all this, she keeps getting fired on for no rational reason and winds up being the center of a major conflict.

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[[caption-width-right:350:I lived all my life wanting to explore space, and now here I am in space? Awesome!]] Fulll Full Title: Waking Up As a Spaceship!? What's a Girl Supposed To Do Now? Author pseudonym Kotohood, available on [[https://www.scribblehub.com/series/93826/waking-up-as-a-spaceship-whats-a-ship-girl-supposed-to-do-now/ scribblehub]] and [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/30454/waking-up-as-a-spaceship-whats-a-ship-girl-supposed royalroad]]The royalroad]].

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S.A.S. Abyssal is a ship powered by an AI by the same name who apparently was a male space fanboy, but woke up as a female Living Core. Her ship is adrift, derelict, with no navigational or astrogating data, badly damaged, and with an uranium powered reactor running on fumes, powered only by the decay of radioactive isotopes. Abyssal has no choice but to fly blind until she ''maybe'' finds her way to civilization. She loots an even worse derelict to find some batteries that at least help her manage her meager power reserves and her first mate, Kuon. She then chances upon a distress signal, finds the pilot which sent the signal dead [[MissedHimByThatMuch just a little over a day before her arrival]], and gets the jump on pirates who came to loot the place [[FakingTheDead by faking being the source of the signal, as a dead fighter]], rescues a cat-girl slave prisoner and jails the pirates, finally getting that astrogating data she needs, and trying to gain her independence by mining the nearby asteroids in exchange for supplies. During all this, she keeps getting fired on for no rational reason and winds up being the center of a major conflict.
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* PinballProtagonist: Justified. Abyssal spends the vast majority of the story being dragged around by the plot, because her ship is an extremely outdated antique, and derelict at that. Plus, whenever she actively tries to grasp the reigns of her destiny, she tends to get shot at!

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* PinballProtagonist: Justified. Abyssal spends the vast majority of the story being dragged around by the plot, because her ship is an extremely outdated antique, and derelict at that. Plus, whenever she actively tries to grasp the reigns of her destiny, she tends to get shot at!at!
* ServantRace: The Living Core ships, with the exception of Abyssal, are all ''owned'' by some faction, even the pirate Sensenmann. There are a rare few that manage to gain some semblance of independence, but '''the norm''' is for them to get "reprogrammed" into the personality they sport and enslaved into their roles. Naturally, even though they have repeatedly demonstrated their sapience, laws that would address and redress their exploitation are slow in coming.

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: All the Living Cores have quirks that make them goofy, at best, but they're all quite dangerous when provoked, the instant they have the ability to retaliate. Abyssal is an EndearinglyDorky ditz who is actually deceptively cunning. Kuon, her first mate, is a NinjaMaid who used to be a battle-cruiser that retaliated against being treated as a communal sex-toy by the unnamed Viscount and his crew, and having her well-justified warnings ignored by using an emergency warping to a random (and vacant) part of space, happily watching said crew turn on each other as supplies ran out, and then disguising herself as a Rubik's cube so the pirates who came to loot the wreck ignored her. She suffers from HonorBeforeReason BlackAndWhiteInsanity as a result. Jinko of the Dawn Star empire is a heavy cruiser obsessed with speaking in haikus, badly, and her two subordinate cruisers are almost as bad. Abigail E. Eternity is a Freedom Union Heavy Carrier and suffers from extreme ImmortalityImmaturity. Sensenmann is just straight-up CuteAndPsycho.
* {{Dystopia}}: In several flavors. The New England interstellar country is a FeudalFuture, and all the horrors that comes with it. The Freedom Union is a FalseUtopia run by a very, very corrupt government that employs brainwashed child soldiers, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The Dawning Star empire combines the Police State and Corporate Crony Capitalism flavors. The neutral zone is known as The Maw of Lawless Space and all the other power blocs happily leave it that way so they can fight their proxy wars without having to worry about innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire.

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: All the Living Cores have quirks that make them goofy, at best, but they're all quite dangerous when provoked, the instant they have the ability to retaliate. Abyssal is an EndearinglyDorky ditz who is actually deceptively cunning. Kuon, her first mate, is a NinjaMaid who used to be a battle-cruiser that retaliated against being treated as a communal sex-toy by the unnamed Viscount and his crew, and having her well-justified warnings ignored by using an emergency warping to a random (and vacant) part of space, happily watching said crew turn on each other as supplies ran out, and then disguising herself as a Rubik's cube so the pirates who came to loot the wreck ignored her. She suffers from HonorBeforeReason BlackAndWhiteInsanity as a result. Jinko of the Dawn Star empire is a heavy cruiser obsessed with speaking in haikus, badly, and her two subordinate cruisers are almost as bad. Abigail E. Eternity is a Freedom Union Heavy Carrier and suffers from extreme ImmortalityImmaturity.ImmortalImmaturity. Sensenmann is just straight-up CuteAndPsycho.
* CircularReasoning: The Nekomi race, as a whole, suffer from it. They are routinely discriminated against, chased out of their homes, refused honest employment, and when they're forced to turn to crime to survive, the fact that they're criminals is used to then further justify the discrimination they suffered in the first place.
* {{Dystopia}}: In several flavors. The New England interstellar country is a FeudalFuture, and all the horrors that comes come with it. The Freedom Union is a FalseUtopia run by a very, very corrupt government that employs brainwashed child soldiers, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The Dawning Star empire combines the Police State and Corporate Crony Capitalism flavors. The neutral zone is known as The Maw of Lawless Space and all the other power blocs happily leave it that way so they can fight their proxy wars without having to worry about innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire.crossfire.
* FantasticSlur: Don't call someone from the Nekomi race a "cat." They will see that as an insult to their honor, as anyone who does is quietly telling them that they're deceptive, lazy, and thieving.
* PinballProtagonist: Justified. Abyssal spends the vast majority of the story being dragged around by the plot, because her ship is an extremely outdated antique, and derelict at that. Plus, whenever she actively tries to grasp the reigns of her destiny, she tends to get shot at!
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The unnamed guy who spent his life playing space-based video-games, wishing for adventures in space, gets reincarnated as a spaceship and quickly finds "her" life in hard-mode, getting beat around by just about everybody else.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: All the Living Cores have quirks that make them goofy, at best, but they're all quite dangerous when provoked, the instant they have the ability to retaliate. Abyssal is an EndearinglyDorky ditz who is actually deceptively cunning. Kuon, her first mate, is a NinjaMaid who used to be a battle-cruiser that retaliated against being treated as a communal sex-toy by the unnamed Viscount and his crew, and having her well-justified warnings ignored by using an emergency warping to a random (and vacant) part of space, happily watching said crew turn on each other as supplies ran out, and then disguising herself as a Rubik's cube so the pirates who came to loot the wreck ignored her. She suffers from HonorBeforeReason BlackAndWhiteInsanity as a result. Jinko of the Dawn Star empire is a heavy cruiser obsessed with speaking in haikus, badly, and her two subordinate cruisers are almost as bad. Abigail E. Eternity is a Freedom Union Heavy Carrier and suffers from extreme ImmortalityImmaturity. Sensenmann is just straight-up CuteAndPsycho.
* {{Dystopia}}: In several flavors. The New England interstellar country is a FeudalFuture, and all the horrors that comes with it. The Freedom Union is a FalseUtopia run by a very, very corrupt government that employs brainwashed child soldiers, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The Dawning Star empire combines the Police State and Corporate Crony Capitalism flavors. The neutral zone is known as The Maw of Lawless Space and all the other power blocs happily leave it that way so they can fight their proxy wars without having to worry about innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire.
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[[caption-width-right:350:I lived all my life wanting to explore space, and now here I am in space? Awesome!]] Fulll Title: Waking Up As a Spaceship!? What's a Girl Supposed To Do Now? Author pseudonym Kotohood, available on [[https://www.scribblehub.com/series/93826/waking-up-as-a-spaceship-whats-a-ship-girl-supposed-to-do-now/ scribblehub]] and [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/30454/waking-up-as-a-spaceship-whats-a-ship-girl-supposed royalroad]]The S.A.S. Abyssal is a ship powered by an AI by the same name who apparently was a male space fanboy, but woke up as a female Living Core. Her ship is adrift, derelict, with no navigational or astrogating data, badly damaged, and with an uranium powered reactor running on fumes, powered only by the decay of radioactive isotopes. Abyssal has no choice but to fly blind until she ''maybe'' finds her way to civilization. She loots an even worse derelict to find some batteries that at least help her manage her meager power reserves and her first mate, Kuon. She then chances upon a distress signal, finds the pilot which sent the signal dead [[MissedHimByThatMuch just a little over a day before her arrival]], and gets the jump on pirates who came to loot the place [[FakingTheDead by faking being the source of the signal, as a dead fighter]], rescues a cat-girl slave prisoner and jails the pirates, finally getting that astrogating data she needs, and trying to gain her independence by mining the nearby asteroids in exchange for supplies. During all this, she keeps getting fired on for no rational reason and winds up being the center of a major conflict.

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