Videos and the Viewscreen¶
The Viewscreen is where things to pick from show up, on the screen where you asked: videos to watch, your inbox, an email in full, your past conversations, My Day or a project. On the Bridge and in Comms it sits beside the conversation (under it on a narrower screen, above it on a phone); on a Shuttle it fills the screen; on a Starship it's in the corner window.
Picking¶
Results come as a numbered grid (12 at a time, 3 rows of 4) or a list. Pick one by:
- clicking or tapping it (on the Bridge, a Shuttle or a Starship; on a shared Shuttle, say the number instead, so your voice says whose results they are),
- saying or typing its number: "3", "number seven", "the second one", "the last one",
- or words from its title: "the one about camouflage".
"Next" or "none of these" shows 12 more; "go back" the ones before; "close it" or "never mind" puts it away. Nothing picked for a couple of minutes and it's put away by itself, and so is a grid you've moved on from.
Videos¶
"Play a video about octopuses" searches every video Module you have at once (YouTube, Vimeo, the Internet Archive, sites you've added) and mixes the results on one grid, each marked with its site. Refine it: "search on Vimeo", "search for whales instead", "all sites".
The grid turns into the player. While it plays:
| Say | |
|---|---|
| "pause", "play", "stop" | |
| "louder", "quieter", "mute" | |
| "skip ahead", "go back" | |
| "what's playing?" |
Leave the Bridge deck and the video shrinks to the bottom right and keeps playing (click it to go back). Videos turn down while the AI listens and talks, and back up after.
Video sources are Modules: the Captain adds them in Spacedock. Thumbnails are fetched by Starbase, so your screens never contact those sites.
At ship roleplay Light or Full, the AI reacts to what's on the grid in its own way (amused, curious, into it); it never reads the numbers out or makes anything up about them.
Adult sites¶
An adult site is only searched when someone who's allowed it names it on their own Bridge, plays only on their own screens, and its titles don't reach the AI unless that person's language with it is Unfiltered. By voice it works only on a personal Shuttle the Captain or First Officer has allowed it on, and only when Starbase recognizes that person's voice.