So, what happens when the personification is taken a step farther? You get a walking, talking female avatar of a Sapient Ship—a Spaceship Girl. She may be a holographic projection by the ship's computer, or she may be a physical manifestation created by Black Box technology, she may be a Wetware CPU running the ship, or she may simply turn into a human when she wants to; but she is the ship, and thus requires special handling. Spaceship girls range from the deadly serious to the outright wacky,