The Bridge¶
The Bridge is Starfarer's app: open Starbase's address in any browser and sign in. It's also the name of its home page, where you land each time. The menu at the top left lists the decks:
| Deck | What's there |
|---|---|
| Bridge | Talk with the AI, and your day at a glance |
| Comms | The whole conversation, from every room, and your past conversations |
| Ops | Messages and mail, your calendar, lists, tasks, projects, away missions, files and the Cargobay |
| Logs | What the AIs remember about you |
| Shuttlebay | The devices in your home |
| Holodeck | Your apps |
| Spacedock | Add-ons for Starbase (the Captain installs them) |
| Engineering | Settings, for the Captain and First Officer |
Your name at the top right opens the Ready Room, your own page; the bell beside it holds your notifications from the last week.
Each deck opens with an intro card: what it's for and how to use it. Hide folds every deck's card to its name line (they start folded on a phone); What is this? opens them again.
The home page¶
- The AI. Type in the box, hold the mic button and talk, or turn on the ear and just say the AI's name. The speech-bubbles button is conversation mode (no name needed). The paperclip sends it a file. Open Comms shows the whole conversation; New conversation starts fresh.
- Today: what's coming up for you. Your next calendar events, reminders and timers, My Day, away missions waiting on you, new house messages and unread mail. Each opens Ops; a part with nothing in it doesn't show.
- Ship status (the Captain and First Officer): Starbase and Ollama, graphics memory, devices online, each problem with its own Ignore, requests to answer, the last backup and outside access. Each line opens its page.
- Sensors (the Captain and First Officer): a live map of everything the AI does, lit up step by step as it works. See Systems and Sensors.
- Activity: what happened in the last day that matters to you. An away mission finished, an answer to your request, and for the Captain and First Officer a device going offline or coming back, a restart, a backup, a new request.
- Get started (the Captain, after first setup): what's left to set up.
The AI box¶
On every deck but the Bridge's home and Comms there's a button at the bottom right: the AI box. Click it to talk or type to the AI right there (hold its mic to talk). It's the same conversation as Comms, and the AI is told what's on your screen ("Engineering · Clearance"), so "what does this do?" works. When the AI says something while the box is closed, a note pops up above it.
On a project or a task list, the AI box is that project's or list's own chat: see co-work chats.
On a phone¶
The Bridge works on phones and tablets. Open Starbase's address there once other devices can connect (see Network and HTTPS); the first time, trust Starbase's certificate so the browser stops warning (Ready Room → You → Security shows how for each kind of phone). Add it to your home screen for an app-like icon.