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nsb_starside_protocol [2025/01/10 17:52] – [Execution of the //Starside Protocol//] Silvernsb_starside_protocol [2025/01/10 18:12] (current) – Silver
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-The NSB //Starside Protocol// is a [[Galactic Sapients Coalition|GSC]] [[ships#Megaships|Megaship]]. Its clerical designation is //GSC-NSB Flagship 0025//. It is primarily notable for its captaincy: a sapient human-lineage AI named [[Joan Roberts Class Nine]].+The NSB //Starside Protocol// is a [[Galactic Sapients Coalition|GSC]] [[ships#Megaships|Megaship]]. Its clerical designation is //GSC-NSB Flagship 25//. It is primarily notable for its captaincy: a sapient human-lineage AI named [[Joan Roberts Class Nine]].
  
 While owned and operated by the GHC military, like all GHC Flagships, the //Starside Protocol// is given a large degree of autonomy due to the erratic but helpful nature of its captain. It often spuriously produces additional directives for itself and its crew (which Captain Roberts refer to as, "Quests"). While its whims may seem odd and even whimsical, they have always resulted in successful completion of orders from GSC leadership. While owned and operated by the GHC military, like all GHC Flagships, the //Starside Protocol// is given a large degree of autonomy due to the erratic but helpful nature of its captain. It often spuriously produces additional directives for itself and its crew (which Captain Roberts refer to as, "Quests"). While its whims may seem odd and even whimsical, they have always resulted in successful completion of orders from GSC leadership.
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 ==== Execution of the Starside Protocol ==== ==== Execution of the Starside Protocol ====
  
 +Decades after the Dragonsong Incident, the NSB //Starside Protocol// embarked on a Techno-Archaeological mission in [[Warhk Aviform Hegemony]] space, in order to supply the WAH with advanced the scanning and reconstruction tooling on board. It was interdicted by an unknown force during superluminal transit and forced to drop into realspace in an unknown system.
  
 +Within four nanoseconds of interdiction, Captain Roberts sent an all-spectrum distress message to every other GHC Flagship: "My final quest has arrived. Do not seek me out. I am initiating the Starside Protocol." Further attempts to query the ship over any medium failed for several years.
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 +Immediately following the transmission, a bluespace storm blanketed the area. While areas of blue-space turbulence often form and dissipate over the course of days, this one was observed to last for years, dispersing and re-forming over months at a time.
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 +Information on what happened to the //Starside Protocol// and its crew remains scarce. Search and rescue teams dispatched once FTL capabilities returned to the region found the flagship destroyed and abandoned, as if the entire crew left without a word before something tore the ship apart from the inside. The few bodies recovered from the wreckage indicated death by severe burns and physical trauma.
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 +Black-box situational reconstruction of the event was reconstructed to reveal sensor and camera data from the time of the incident. The interdiction was not energetic as previously thought, but physical; as if something had //pushed// the //Starside Protocol// out of transit and then crushed it in one palm. Camera footage showed no physical attackers, although blue-space distortion was strong enough to produce visible rift-like tentacle shaped fluctuations.
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 +The ship's computers remained mostly intact, however due to the Captain AI's deeply entwined identity with the ship, its cognition adopted extreme, violent paranoia and schizophrenia. Rescue and Survey teams sent into the ship had to retreat and return with military defense forces in order to bypass the violent AI's thrashing defenses.
  
 ==== Salvage Period ==== ==== Salvage Period ====
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 +Once the GHC had fully scanned and documented the wreckage, the sector's space-lane was announced to be open to the public once again. Salvagers from many organizations flocked to the scene despite the dangers - too many for the GHC to stop without instituting a full-on blockade. Many perished at the hands of the Mad Captain's many guns, but over time the ship's wreckage was picked clean by opportunists, much to the GHC's displeasure.
  
 ==== Repair and Recommissioning ==== ==== Repair and Recommissioning ====
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