Gaia Colony Ship

On stardate 57289.6, The USS Gungnir on a search and rescue mission for the SS Roanoke stumbled across a massive resettlement project, a giant ship with nominal warp capabilities and a rotating habitat section the resembled a city. Upon further inspection, it appeared that all 125,000 inhabitants had died nearly a thousand years ago due to a Isolytic storm that killed everyone instantly. And the Grieving AI, translated to Artemis, was puppeting them around, emulating the life they once had.

After a talk with the command staff of the Gungnir, Artemis agreed it was time to move on from her past loss, and pledged to help the Anerthians resettle from their dying world. Starfleet Corp of Engineers as well as Starfleet Xeno-anthropology Teams are on thier way now to study this ship, and repair it to full operational capacity, as well as preserve the culture that was lost.

As a parting spark of hope, Artemis mentioned that she was not the only ship to have left their home system. Another with a Sun theme, Apollo, was her brother ship, so to speak. There might be a thriving colony of this culture out there in the void.

## Technology

##### Warp drive

The ship was most likely constructed in space, measuring nearly 20 kilometers long. Warp drive is nominal at just barely warp 2, which would explain why an entire city was constructed inside to sustain the crew on what could have possibly been a multi-generational cruise. Warp core was not directly observed by the Gungnir crew. It is possible that this species did not utilized dilthium, and M/AM reactors, thus limiting their power production. This is speculation.

##### Livery

They had advance and redundant air, water, and matter reclamation centers in the lower decks of the city structure. On the city structure surface, they had conventional housing with independent systems networked into the shipwide network. Roads and walkways were used with automatic trolleys.

##### Militech and AI

To assist with maintenance and construction, the Gaians had swarms of millimeter sized robots that could link together to form larger structures and well as preform tiny repairs. Not to be confused with the Borg Nanites, these devices are visible to the naked eye and are too big to go into a blood stream. They appear to have actuators, small distributed intelligence, as well as a means of self propelled flight and ground movement. Originally, these were distributed across the ship to fix milli-fractures and do small maintenance. However, since the accident, Artemis has been using them to puppet the corpses of her people. Since the encounter with the Gungnir, it appears this behavior has stopped.

Artemis herself was an advance AI system integrated into the ship. She had direct access to all internal and external sensors, as nominal Maintenance. She also exerted direct control over the mili-bots. IT is unknown how the personality splits between the AI and the mili-bots, if she views them as an extension of herself or a foreign entity. Artemis is self-aware and has the capacity for emotions, such as grief, depression, hope. It is unknown how deep her sense of duty drives and whether that is a top-down or a bottom-up feature. But she has a built in sense of duty to protect and nurture those in her care. When the Isolytic storm made her fail at that task, she was forced into a feedback loop of self analysis and self loathing, not too dissimilar to survivors guilt. Further questioning on her systems and personality is forthcoming on a follow up mission.