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ImFeelingGud t1_jd4exw1 wrote

Reply to comment by Difficult-Theory-413 in [WP] A colony ship with 5000 human passengers in stasis is heavily damaged in a meteor shower. While the onboard computer does not have the raw materials needed for repairs, it calculates that it has a very large amount of organic matter and a genetics lab. A solution path is now being executed... by lordhelmos

Nice take on that one, ship computer puts the mission and lifespan of the ship first instead of the colonists well being and uses them as spare parts for the hull.

My take would be that with the genetics lab the computer would have found a way to artificially grow and mass produce human parts to later use as materials to fix the ship's hull, later when the colonists wake up they find that most of the exterior hull of the ship has been patched up with organic matter, and the ship keeps pumping out body parts because flesh doesn't really hold up really well against stray asteroids.

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superanth t1_jd63cqc wrote

This is what I was expecting too, right after the genetics lab was mentioned.

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