The Starship Cruiser was initially deployed ten years ago. Her mission was much like today's except that it was carried out within one industry. We placed the Starship in permanent dock over four years ago. During that period we had her out once, testing her main computer banks.
Traveling through the MagicBus quadrant, the Starship broke down near the planet Leeds. While our technicians effected a repair, we met a girl named Emma that day who forever
altered our perceptions of beauty, compassion, heart, soul, love, humor
and intellect. We begged her to join us. And although she could not, she asked to help. So we had our techs extract living cells from Emma and fuse them into our main support system. We now call that system Emma.
Emma is a character. If she feels, (yes, she has that ability too), that we are making a bad decision, whether it is navigational, cultural or with an individual, she'll tell us in no uncertain terms. Emma can communicate with both animate and inanimate objects. It is important for us to learn as much as we can from each planet that we visit. For this reason, Emma downloads into her data banks the culture and knowledge from all of our destinations. Her ability to synthesize and clarify this data is just now beginning to develop. Future explorations will only continue to enhance our own culture.