There were adjustments that had to be made initially, that came as no surprise. For one thing, augmentation was illegal in the universe Data was accustomed to. Being revealed as an augment could rob one of well-deserved honors and citations. Here augments were run of the mill. If someone wasn't a Heavy Gravity Worlder (meaning that they were sturdy and dense and could navigate easily in two Gs, and their metabolism was incredible to feed that stocky bulk), then they had their reflexes enhanced, the ability to breathe water, or were tweaked clones. Cybernetic enhancements for more than just keeping the body maintained were common, such as for strength or for data navigation. And there were androids. There were still prejudices against AIs, and they couldn't efficiently navigate slipstream without the intuition of an organic, but there were many of them. Androids, and androids with brains that could link to ships with massive cosmic intellect, and all of them could feel.

It was nice to just... blend in, Data found. He was still unique, his positronic system still wonderfully compatible with other systems and strange in the way that it evolved and altered. His appearance still not modeled to look like that of a human precisely, but markedly different in that he had gold skin. And while they didn't have warp drive (yet another little tidbit that he was sure they could "develop" for interstellar rather than intergalactic ships) he had Avon to help navigate slipstream.

( When they found a ship that was, of course... )

Fatherhood had always been something that Data had looked forward to, on both a personal level and as a means of propagating the work of his own father. He wanted to create artificial life that was kinder, gentler, more understanding of humanity than what he'd seen of many of his own kind. Yet he'd left it to his human spouse to finalize the programming of his android offspring; to decide on his morality and skills.

( All of which, outside of a generally invasive and system compatible nature, had to be taught... )

Character: Data
Fandom: Star Trek: TNG / Blake's 7
Words: 1,964
Notes: AU based off RP