pre-3232: What is it, Alfred? he asked, entering the overheated room; what have we here? A perfect synthetic replica of a healthy young female body; she has every component, except life itself; then she shall have it! I've been working w/ an unusual microbe that feeds on DNA; if I feed enough chromosomes into the creatures & we let them loose to infest ur apparatus; he suggested, peering over at the doll, & going on, the accumulated creatures will coalesce into a single consciousness;
like a hive, indwelling the plastic form; why, that's genius; how soon can u start I'll bring one back to my station & work on it there, it should be infested in no time; where will u get the female chromosomes? asked the curious replicator; there may be some women willing to give a bit away - replied the genius astrogeneticist, yet to go mad