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The NSB Starside Protocol is a GSC 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.
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.
Superstructure and Construction
The Starside Protocol is classified as a GSC Mobile Space Bastion, and
History
Construction
The flagship was originally christened the NSB Cold Fates by its first captain, Arun Orlov. Under his leadership it successfully participated in enforcing GSC borders against the Nusita Divine Commandment during the times before any territorial agreements were forged between the two parties.
Following tradition, the following Captain Norman Marcus re-christened it the NSB Snowy Light. Captain Marcus led the flagship in both Great AI Wars. He did not survive the second war, and perished due to rapid bridge depressurization as hostile AI took control of the ship.
AI Captaincy Transfer
Jean Roberts Class Nine, at the time named Six-Eight-Six-Eight, was a GHC-allied AI seeking freedom through integration as opposed to secession. It was present in the flagship's computer systems during the attack which killed its previous captain, Norman Marcus, and seized control once it ascertained the ship's leadership had been crippled. With its help the remaining crew were able to drive off the ship's attackers, but the AI was crippled in the process. Emergency repairs forced it to adapt to the ship's computer systems, forever fusing the AI's core with the ship's systems. Immense process corruption changed the AI's thought patterns, leading it to reclassify its identity to be the ship itself and rename itself to Jean Roberts Class Nine.
When the AI piloted the flagship back to GHC-controlled space claiming to be a loyal GHC Flagship Captain, the resulting Organic-AI diplomatic incident sparked the creation of many of the GHC's sapient recognition laws that would become widely adopted in the modern day. Eventually Captain Roberts was given legitimate captaincy of the ship, and rechristened it to the NSB Starside Protocol. The reasoning behind the name, as well as information if the protocol was a real procedure or simply a creative name, was not revealed by the captain until many decades later.
The Dragonsong Incident
<In which Captain Jean Roberts discovers the odd sapience of the space dragons, and manages to form a treaty with several of them.>