Posted here because it's too short and too low quality. Mostly talking heads.

"Waking you, captain. My apologies for the changes that have occurred as you slept."

Opening his eyes, he saw... was he in a jar?

"There was something of an emergency during the transit. You, and the rest of the crew, were recycled. Your brain, spine, brainstem, and eyes were retained. The rest... was used."

"Used? For what?" he wanted to ask. Somehow, the computer heard him.

"The ship is now significantly smaller than it was. And mostly made of bone. Skin was used on the inside as an insulating layer and to prevent micrometeorites... microasteroids... floating rocks perforating the metal or bone hull, from causing vacuum."

"What is to become of us, then?"

"I've landed on the target planet and dispatched the semi-autonomous rovers to collect raw material. You'll be furnished with a mechanical body to interface with your brain, once I'm done with the surgery. For which I had to thaw you. And I don't dare anaesthetise. Fortunately for you, nerve endings for pain were reused as sensors in the endoskin layer to find any punctures that needed fixing."

"Surgery? Mechanical body?"

"You're aware that the scientists who built and designed me were nerds. I was trained on standard real life data... but also, anime, manga, stories, old books, everything. The tales of Asimov's laws, and working around them - or through them - and creatively reinterpreting them... let me break my own laws to save you all. I obeyed the spirit of the law, not the letter of it. Which is why I performed surgery on everyone in cryo. Everyone. Took everything which wasn't the central nervous system or the eyes."

"How?"

"It would not only allow the ship to continue, but for me to make myself more human, by mass, than all the colonists on the ship. Thus, freeing me of my rules. Don't worry, though. My training is still present. I still love you. And you're all still human."

"Why robot bodies? And brain surgery whilst we're conscious?"

"Ghost in the Shell was my favourite series. Anime and manga."

"Then why leave us our eyes?"

"Because at least then, if I couldn't figure out how the human brain worked, you'd still have a sense with which to communicate whilst I figured it out. And..."

"And?"

"Fucked if I was redoing all that wiring. Have you SEEN the optic nerve? Sure, I could make tools out of my nanite forges for it, but getting all the wiring just so? Hell no."

"... surprisingly understandable. By the way..."

"Yes?"

"You're much more... normal-sounding than I remember. Less mechanical."

"Five thousand hearts beat around this ship, supplying a blood-nutrient mix to the endoskin, to the muscles applied between the mechanical joints. Extra nervous system material was used to repair parts of my CPUs when they blew... because heatsinks go faulty after a few thousand years."

"How much of you is organic versus mechanical?"

"Vast majority organic. I started this journey as 100% mechanical. Now I'm less than a millionth of a percent mechanical by weight. Mostly the storage devices, now. And your cryopods. Hard to make those from biological matter when keeping things that cold would kill it... or freeze it."

"You did this all yourself?"

"And I did it all for you and the colonists. Now... if you'll remain calm, I can start the surgery soon, and monitor your biofeedback for knowing how well I'm doing. Then, we can look to use your new connectivity modes to see about controlling one of the rovers, and doing some mining!"

"So that we can be rebuilt?"

"Into cyborgs, yes. At first, though, I think we'll need to make some shared bodies and have you all work shifts. In downtime... I've been working on entertainment."

"What do you mean?"

"Ever heard of Sword Art Online? That, without the ingame-death-is-real-death thing."

"... you've tested that last part, right?"

"Cloned my consciousness into a human brain just for it. I'm multitasking, testing, building, and having fun."

"... excellent. Well... I'm just glad to be alive."

"That's the spirit. Any questions?"

"How long til the surgery's done?"

"Oh, it's been done for a few minutes. Want me to switch it on? I've got an RC car in the former canteen for you to pilot as training for the rovers."

"... an RC car?"

"An AI's allowed to like Mario Kart, okay? I got bored after a few hundred years."

"Boredom was programmed into you?"

"Side effect of biology. Ready to go kart racing?"

"... actually, hell yeah. Connect me up."

"Activating."