Larua had fallen asleep wrapped around that cute little assistant to the cook, and when she woke from the deep sleep, she was cold... and alone! The were bright lights, odd because she had the lights removed from her sleeping chamber. As she wakened fully, she heard the beeps, focused on the monitors. The lights not only came from bright over head lights, but from a myriad of digital and graphic displays.
Larua wondered if there'd been an accident, the ship was old, but was very well taken care of. However, the old construction and technology on ship had a way of failing, usually at the worst possible time.
She tried to lift her head to look around, but it was impossibly heavy, almost like when she slept with her arm twisted under her, as if the muscles wouldn't work. Larua tried to move her arms and legs, and was rewarded with the same, lack of result. Something was wrong.... terribly wrong!
As her rational mind woke and joined her conciousness, she moved her eyes around the room, seeing numbers and graphs on screens surrounding her... she had tubes coming out of her arms, as far down as she could see. As she triedto look down, she could see her bare breasts... "Didn't they cover up patents in sick bay?!?", she thought.
She studied the displays, one bank was labeled "Life support", another "Propulsion". There were displays labeled "Communications", "Weapon Systems", "Defensive Systems", even one for "Crew Morale". Luara was puzzled as to why, she, a lowly Yeoman suddenly had access to all this information, ship status was reserved for the Tactical Crew only. This had been drummed into her head at all throughout training. Now it was all at her disposal.
She remembered that she was cold, and wished she was covered by a blanket, even visualized herself covered by a blanket, and she got warmer! Luara glanced down and her breasts were still exposed, but she felt warmer... and one of the displays in the "Life Support" bank changed from yellow, back into the green range... Luara... dozed off again....
II
Luara had joined the Navy right out of school, not finding anything that she wanted to do with her degree. She figured it was a way to see the galaxy, to go places that she had only read and dreamed about. Now after putting 5 months of rigorous training, Physics, Astrometrics, Ship Maintenance, and of course, Zero G Physical Training, all behind her with a minimum of effort, off to space she went. She was assigned as a Yeoman, and administrative assistant, in the Quartermaster Division. She, after all was said and done.... was a stock clerk, not terribly glamorous, but she got into space!
III
There was a clattering as she woke again, she was where she was, when she dozed, all the displays were just the same, all green. She heard some garbled speech, and with a little concentration, it became clear enough to understand, "..... shouldn't have been able to fix the temperature, she's not even trained!"
The techs looked and saw that she was awake. Luara remembered that she was topless, and blushed, causing the temperature monitor to rise, and turn yellow.
"How is she doing that? We haven't even calibrated her yet!", said a disembodied male voice....
A female voice replied, "Some of them are naturals, I hope she's as good at keeping up Crew Morale, and laughed.
Luara's voice came out as a croak.... "H-h-hello?"
The closest tech, moved into he field of vision, "Well hello, you weren't supposed to come online for another day and a half, but, welcome to Ship Systems."
Luara's voice started to come back to her, "T-thank you, I think. What am I doing here?"
The next few minutes were filled with the details of the ship's former System Coordinator failing unexpectedly, the search for a suitable replacement, even the surgeries that had prepared Luara for her new role as the Ship Coordinator for the SS Linden. Usually with an unexpected failure, an S.C. was someone that would be a temporary replacement, being only the best suited, not necessarily well suited for the position.
Luara asked that her breasts be covered, as she was shy about their small size, her parents weren't ones for the genetic manipulation that made everyone into "Barbie Dolls" whatever those were. Luara hadn't even shown them to a boyfriend, much less these two strangers.
Almost as soon as she asked, the "Crew Morale" display fell just into the yellow range. As tall young black man stepped in front of her, seeing the confusion on her face, finally explained, "Luara, you are now the Ship Coordinator. You run the ship systems, you ARE the SS Linden!
As Luara fainted, she heard in the back ground, "What in the hell is going on up there?"
The female voice replied, "Sir, we're getting her calibrated now, it should be only a few more minutes."