The personas¶
A persona is who the AI is: a name, a personality, a voice, a color and a hologram. Starfarer comes with four. They're different people: each has its own conversations with you, learns its own things about you and keeps its own journal. They know each other like crewmates (who you've talked with lately, never what was said).
| Who | Color | |
|---|---|---|
| Celestra | The ship's main AI: sharp, quick, warm and a little sarcastic; a crewmate and friend first. The ship's default. | green |
| Nova | The navigation specialist: easygoing, boisterous and sure he's the most fun one aboard. Answers to his name alone. | amber |
| Lumina | The ship's teacher: calm, gentle and patient; homework for kids, something new for adults. Keeps it PG-13. Cadets (under 18) get Lumina. | pale blue |
| Computer | The onboard information system: facts only, no stories, small talk or opinions. Guests always get the Computer. | a blue orb |
The Captain can make more, or change copies of these, in Engineering → Personas.
Your usual AI¶
Each person picks their own in the Ready Room (Your AIs → Rapport → Make it my usual). "Hey Ship" always gets yours, and so does any device that's yours. You can still call any AI you're allowed to by name. One you can't talk with yet shows grayed in the Ready Room: Ask the Captain for it.
How it is with you: Rapport¶
Ready Room → Your AIs → Rapport has a tab for each AI, in its color. There you set how it is with you: energy, sarcasm, teasing, how often it uses your name, its language and more (Default is its own way). It also shows its mood with you right now. Only you see these, and the AI doesn't change for anyone else.
Moods come from its own personality and what's said: it can get excited, annoyed, worried or affectionate, and drifts back to its usual self over time. The chip beside its name on the Bridge shows how it is; the Captain and the person can reset it.
Ship roleplay¶
How much the AIs play the starship with you: Off (themselves, low-key, no starship talk beyond the app's own names), Light (their full personality with a little ship flavor; where everyone starts) or Full (everything, in character). Ready Room → Your AIs → Rapport → For every AI, with a sample to hear for each. Whatever the level, what they say about the real world, your data and the ship's systems is true.
Being handed over¶
Ask for another AI ("I want to talk to Lumina", "put Nova on", "tell Lumina I said hi") and the one you're with passes you over: it answers in its own words, then the other comes on, in its own name, color, voice and hologram, says it got your message, and answers it. You stay with it for that conversation; calling another by name, a new conversation or 15 quiet minutes brings back your own. An AI never hands you over on its own, and only to an AI you're allowed to talk with.
Language and mature content¶
Each AI has a language level (Lumina's is PG-13 at most). Adults can pick theirs in Rapport, up to what the Captain allows. Mature content is off for the whole ship until the Captain turns it on; then adults opt in for themselves, on their own devices. Cadets always get family-friendly answers (PG-13 from 13), and Guests are family-safe.
A conversation that turns adult moves on its own to your Private conversations, behind your PIN: see Comms.