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The Ready Room

Your name at the top right opens the Ready Room: your own page. It has four tabs, each with views along the top.

You

Profile

What every AI knows about you: your name and what it calls you (How to say it fixes how its voice pronounces it), where you live and your time zone (for the weather, times and reminders), units, About you, how you like to be talked to, and Your people. When an AI picks up something about you in a conversation, it shows here as The AI noticed: Add it or No thanks.

Security

Each card says how it stands while folded.

  • Password.
  • Your PIN: 4 to 8 digits. It approves anything that changes something (the AI's commands on a PC, sending or deleting mail, a mission's plan, letting a device out of the house). It can be typed or said out loud when the AI can't be sure it's you, and it's never kept in a conversation or shown. Three wrong in a row and it's refused for a while.
  • Two-step sign-in: a code from an authenticator app when you sign in. Needed to sign in from outside the home. Scan the QR code with the app, then type a code to turn it on.
  • Signed-in devices: each browser you're signed in on; sign any of them out.
  • Recovery codes (the Captain and First Officer): one-time codes that get you back in if you forget your password. Make a new set cancels the old one.
  • Trust Starbase on your devices: download Starbase's certificate and the steps for Windows, a Mac, an iPhone or iPad, and Android, so browsers stop warning.

Sign out is at the top.

Notifications

Everything that comes in for you goes to the bell by your name (the last week). For each kind, pick Off, Bell only or Bell and a pop-up:

timers, alarms and reminders (they always ring), away missions finished or waiting on you, house messages, new email (off to start with), calendar events coming up, tasks given to you, answers to your requests, and for the Captain and First Officer new requests and ship problems.

  • Allow notifications on this screen lets pop-ups show while Starfarer is in the background (each screen asks once).
  • Quiet hours (10 PM to 7 AM to start with): nothing pops up; only your timers and alarms ring.
  • How long before a calendar event to tell you, and how often to look for new email.

The next time you talk, the AI mentions what came in: who it's from and what kind, never what it says (you may be at a shared device).

Your AIs

Rapport

A tab for each AI, in its color: how it is with you and its mood with you right now. Make it my usual picks the AI you get by default. For every AI: how much they play the starship with you (Off, Light or Full, with a sample to hear), and mature content if the Captain allows it. See The personas.

Voice

  • Listening: say an AI's name on any of your devices and it answers. The ear button next to the mic turns it on and off, everywhere you're signed in.
  • Talk over the AI to stop it.
  • Teach the AI your voice: read a few sentences once (Record), and room speakers know it's you instead of treating you as a Guest. Your voiceprint never leaves the Starbase computer. Forget my voice removes it.

Specialists

Your own experts: a "Home network helper", a "Tax helper", a "D&D rules expert". Each has a name, a brief and the model it runs on (Code, Deep or Reading). When you ask for something one of them knows, the AI hands the job over, then explains the result. They're yours only.

Requests

  • Ask the Captain: ask for an AI or a tool you don't have, or send a Suggestion, a Problem or a Complaint. You can also just tell the AI: "tell the Captain the hall speaker keeps cutting out". Yours shows each one and its answer, and the AI tells you the answer the next time you talk.
  • To answer (the Captain and First Officer): requests from the crew and Guests. Approve and give it, Deny, or for the rest Fixed, Planned or Won't do, with a reply if you like.

Oversight

The Captain's: see Audit log and oversight.