Shipgirl Bio: Yorktown

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*Sovereign* Class Dreadnought/Heavy Explorer

## Overview

**Yorktown** is a female Federation AI, whom best known for her protective nature and being close to her sisterships.

## Character Brief

**USS Yorktown, NCC-90276, Sovereign-class dreadnought/heavy explorer**

One of the oldest AIs in service to the Federation Starfleet, the Yorktown has also had one of the closest relationships with the Enterprise. They were sister ships, both *Constitution*-class starships, that were built in the same shipyards. They achieved sapience at around the same time, and participated in many joint training and war game exercises together. The *Yorktown* also made first contact with the Bynars, which led to a revolution in Federation computer technologies. After the "Whale Probe" incident of 2286, the Yorktown was towed back to Earth Space Dock and her AI was pulled. The *Enterprise* herself was installed and became the *USS Enterprise-A*. Yorktown was installed into the second *Excelsior*-class hull, undergoing a shake down cruise and becoming fully operational one year later. She would continue to have a distinguished career as an *Excelsior*-class starship, making first contact with the Anticans and Selayans. She would eventually upgrade to an *Ambassador*-class hull in the 2330s. She had a great deal of experience as a command ship for war games and small fleet actions dealing with the Cardassians and Tholians, but also made several important contributions such as being part of the task force that aided in the creations of the treaty with the Sheliak.

She was one of several vessels destroyed at the Battle of Wolf 359, but was able to successfully eject her black box out of the path of the Borg cube. The event still deeply traumatized her, so she was placed into the hull of a *Zodiac*-class surveillance, science and intelligence ship as a less stressful alternative to recover. Yorktown served in this role very well, as she had done with every other job she had been assigned to. Prior to the outbreak of the Dominion War, however, she requested permission to be installed into a *Sovereign*-class hull. Her experience managing large capital ships was seen as an asset, and her experience with intelligence gathering, surveillance, and diplomacy were seen as a good fit for such a hull. Her sister Enterprise may have also given the request a push. Yorktown was installed into the fifth *Sovereign*-class starship hull, and her experience let her get it online within a year. She was assigned as flagship of the *Tenth Fleet*, a role she served in with distinction.

In later years, she would turn to politics and act as Ambassador for the Federation as well as representative for all sapient Ship AIs and other artificial sapient beings within the Federation.

## Personal Profile

Yorktown herself has always been calm, collected, and motherly. She has always considered herself Enterprise's "big sister", and Enterprise sees her as this no matter what form they take. She is endlessly kind and patient, rarely getting angry and working through issues diligently. She can be very humble, almost self deprecatingly so. But never mistake her passivity for weakness-When moved to action, she is as firm and strong as tritanium. *And when she actually gets angry? Run.*

She is very fond of cooking, and even with the invention of replicators she enjoys cooking in a kitchen. She loves tea of many varieties, and has a fondness for ice cream and wine. She is an able seamstress and fashion designer, and has worked on the subspace net as a freelance clothing designer. She has a fondness for American history and quotes the Founding Fathers often.

* 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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