Shipgirl Bio: Hornet

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*Defiant* Class Heavy Escort

## Overview

**Hornet** is a female Federation AI, a Primary character in the PnP Prime Universe. Best known as being the little sister, to shipgirls Enterprise and Yorktown.

## Character Brief

**USS *Hornet*, NCC-73712, Defiant-class heavy escort**

One of the oldest AIs in service to the Federation Starfleet, the Hornet has also had one of the closest relationships with the Enterprise and Yorktown. They were sister ships, all three *Constitution*-class starships, that were built in the same shipyards (though Hornet was a *Flight II*, built later). Their silicone quantum computing brain trees were also grown from the same branch, making them sisters in a much more visceral way. They achieved sapience at around the same time, and participated in many joint training and war game exercises together. Hornet's career was just as extensive as her sisters, though she was always considered the "baby" of the trio. She didn't consider this an insult though: She embraced the role.

She fought off Tholian raiders, helped found the colony world of Pacifica, and made first contact with the Trill during her first five year mission from 2268-2273. Her gregarious, friendly and energetic personality endeared her to the Trill them, and she was present when they became Federation members in 2280.

Like many of her sisters, she refit and upgraded over the years. In her case, first, she was upgraded to the *Federation*-class dreadnought subclass. Then to the *Enterprise*-subclass of the *Constitution*-class in 2274. She was among many ships disabled by the Cetacean Probe in 2286, though she became good friends with George and Gracie (who shared the shipgirl hated for "those probe bastards").

She updated to a *Georgieu*-class battlecruiser hull in the 2280s, due to rising tensions with the Klingon Empire. She served deterrence patrols and on interdiction missions against Klingon raiders. She also fought Tholians, Kzinti, and other rogue species' pirates and attackers. She did this very well, having a keen tactical mind despite her flighty personality. With the Khitomer Accords being signed in 2293 though, she was suddenly without a mission. There were refits done to the *Georgiou*-class to try and make them more suitable for peacetime missions, but this only extended her hull life to 2310. Hornet subsequently updated to a *Centaur*-class hull for a time, enjoying the high speed and agility of the smaller platform. She did patrol and scientific missions, and was one of the few Starfleet ships to encounter the Crystalline Entity and escape unscathed.

Hornet would upgrade to a *Renaissance*-class starship hull by 2334, and proceeded to do a four year survey of Alpha Quadrant spatial anomalies. This she did well, and again she fought off Tholian raiders-Their species seems to have a particular dislike for the "Youngest Enterprise Sister". She was among the ships to respond to the Khitomer massacre, and later, the Narendra III attack. The last was personal, as her sister Enterprise lost her hull and crew in that fight. She visited her sister in Memory Alpha as she recovered, helping her as much as she could in her busy schedule.

She attempted to join the fleet to fight the Borg at Wolf 359 in 2367, but was too late due to distance. She did participate in rescue operations, salvaging her sister's black box. Again, she tended her elder sister when she was recovering from her trauma. Next year, she aided in the Federation blockage of Romulan space during the Klingon Civil War, preventing the Duras Sisters from gaining control over the Klingon Empire. She went back to normal duties, doing a long term survey mission of planets in the Beta Quadrant for the next three years. In 2371, she was struck by Tholian raiders, and driven to crash on a barren world. Her surviving crew fought off the Tholian landing parties and destroyed their ship, but at the cost of their own lives. Hornet was left alone on this desolate world with only the corpses of her crew for company for over three months, before she was rescued. She spent time in Memory Alpha to recover, and Enterprise and Yorktown helped her as she had helped them.

By 2372 she had upgraded to a *Defiant*-class hull, due to the threat of the Borg and the Dominion. She was on a training mission in deep space when the Borg attacked in 2373, and once again missed her chance to fight them. But she would go onto great acclaim in the Dominion War, fighting alongside her sisters for the first time in almost a century. She survived the war, and continues as the spunky, hot blooded little sister of Enterprise and Yorktown...

## Personal Profile

Best known as the most outgoing of the three sisters. She wearing less than regulation uniforms, is rumored during the time of the Dominion War be dating shipboy, Prometheus.

* Wiki Editor Note: Characters are refer to as their actual name as well as their assigned Ship Hull, however typically do not use the ship Prefix Example: *USS* as part their given AI name. Ship Hull uses it.

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