Outside the home

Devices can keep working away from home, through your household's own address. It's off until the Captain sets up outside access, and then off for each device until it's let out.

Letting a device out

Shuttlebay → the device → Edit → Outside the home: the Captain's or First Officer's PIN, at home. Works for Satellites, Shuttles and Starships.

A device that's let out tries Starbase at home first and, when it doesn't answer there, connects through your address (it learns the address from Starbase: nothing to type on the device, and it hears when it changes). It goes back to home by itself as soon as Starbase answers there. The Shuttlebay marks it Away while it's connected from outside, a Starship's window says "Ready · away from home", and each time is in the audit log.

What's different away from home

• Guests aren't answered on a shared device while it's away.
• The AI's hands work only on the computer you're using. On your Starship away from home, its hands work on it as at home (your switch on that PC, OK and PIN for changes, a notification for each action, the Stop key). From outside (a Starship that's away, or the Bridge through your address) they never reach the Starbase PC or another of your computers: no commands, scripts, opening, finding, reading or sending files there, and no moving Cargobay files onto the Starbase PC.
• An away mission started from outside does what it can without a PC; one waiting for approval to use a PC is approved at home.
• A Starship that's away takes its hands only from itself, even from home.
• Signing in to the Bridge from outside needs two-step sign-in.

Everything else (talking, mail, calendar, lists, your Cargobay, missions without a PC) works the same as at home.