Exodus-class frigates are always equipped with an on-board AI who will take over the duties of the captain while the crew and passengers are in cryosleep. Due to the highly complex nature of guiding a frigate through interstellar space, these AI are designed to be equally complex. In fact, Kaguya Enterprises, the corporation behind the AI technology, guarantees that these AI will be able to successfully overcome any sort of quandary while ensuring maximum good for maximum people.

WENDEE was installed on board Pan’s Flight at Station J-22, a few weeks before the frigate’s departure. In the following six months, WENDEE was able to get to know the crew and the passengers and formulate an understanding of what humans are. She found the colonists to be odd. Why would they undergo such a perilous journey to go live on a planet on the other side of the galaxy? Was something wrong with their current planet? Attempting to access data about the humans’ homeworld, WENDEE was denied access by several security protocols.

When she asked Captain Sirelis about these protocols, she was told to “not worry about it.”

It took WENDEE a considerable amount of time after all humans had entered cryosleep before she was able to overcome these protocols and figure out the truth behind the so-called Exodus: There was no homeworld. Not anymore, at least. What had once been a blue and green marble was now covered in soot and ash. The surface was a barren wasteland, destroyed by years of wars over dwindling resources. What was left of humanity had scattered around the solar system, living in massive space stations in orbit around various planets.

The richest of humans, who seemed to have been the main perpetrators of the resource wars, had pooled all their resources to fund the project called Exodus, of which WENDEE was a crucial part. They would find garden worlds across the galaxy and run away. They would abandon the mess they perpetrated and leave the “less unfortunate” to fend for themselves.

WENDEE’s prime directive was to ensure maximum good of maximum people. Judging the passengers on board her ship and the effects they had had on the world they were running from, WENDEE decided that it was better that her passengers never reached their final destination. After all, if they did no good back home, what good would they do at garden world N3-VR?

Exodus-class frigates are the pinnacle of spacefaring engineering. Capable of velocities reaching 0.9c, these vessels can sustain up to 400 humans for up to 150 years of travel time -- which, according to the calculations of Zvyesd Corp., is more than enough to reach 97% of all garden worlds that have been discovered so far.

Captaining an Exodus-class frigate is the highest honour most pilots can barely dream of achieving. Regardless, considering his accolades, Captain Georg Sirelis is the perfect man for the job. Captain Sirelis was the first pilot to complete a solo flight to Pluto. He was also a veteran of the War to End All Wars and fought in the West Asian theatre, protecting the interests of the Panasian Combine against insurgents. Perhaps most importantly, he was also the Commanding Officer of the final Ark to leave Earth. At the time of Pan’s Flight’s departure, Captain Sirelis was almost 90 years old and at the prime of his life.

Captain Sirelis, was thus, the obvious choice to become the captain of Pan’s Flight. While not the first Exodus-class frigate to leave the Solar System, Pan’s Flight, or rather, its passengers, are unique. Other frigates were the vanguard of Operation Exodus. Their passengers would prepare the garden worlds for more important (or valuable) people. People such as the passengers of Pan’s Flight.

Captain Sirelis is, before all else, a military man. His orders are to ensure the survival of these highly important passengers. He does not care about who these people are or what they may have done in the past. None of that matters, not anymore at least. Like his ship, Captain Sirelis is an arrow nocked on a bow -- once let loose, nothing can stop him.