Zeta

Zeta was an artificial intelligence derived as a large spider. He was about the size of a hand and often befriended humanoids. In the mid 28th century, he partnered up with Lieutenant Rune Sith. (Star Trek: 001, Star Trek: Starbase 001, Star Trek: Phoenix-X: "Second Life", Earth Spacedock)

History

In 2381, Zeta was best friends with Rune Sith and assisted in bounty hunting. (Star Trek: Starbase 001)

In 2410, he was drifting from ship to ship and was discovered by Captain Elric on Leora IV. When Elric fell into an underground tunnel, Zeta assisted him in looking for an exit. Instead, they discovered a subterranean ancient city. (Earth Spacedock: Page 60)

In 2752, Zeta was attached to and assisted another Rune Sith when the USS Pollux was on mission to seek out and recover survivors of the USS Domtar (Star Trek: 001: "New Beginnings")

When Starbase 001 began to experience intermittent, illegal file access, Sith tasked Zeta with tracking who was behind it. After some difficult system surfing and blowing the tertiary power circuits on Deck 12, Zeta tracked access to station panel 34-F8. (Star Trek: 001: "The Last Place You Look")

Zeta began to malfunction and absentmindedly create metallic webs throughout The Deck when Starbase 001 was moved into an alien subspace domain. (Star Trek: 001: "Alone")

When Rune Sith was away, trapped in a holoarena simulation of World War III, Zeta became bored and crawled around The Deck in search for him. There, he attracted two Letheans Matrix and Forbes who attempted to later steal Zeta in the corridors of Deck 7. As Sith was being released from the holoarena, he discovered and saved Zeta. (Star Trek: 001: "When It Rains...")

In 2753, Sith and Zeta both stopped a time-displaced Harley Menrow duplicate from stealing a Bajoran orb. Zeta attacked Menrow by jumping onto his face. When Menrow decided to change his ways, Zeta assisted him in stopping an Alliance-member Takaran named Kebb from using the Orb of Summons to destroy the Earth. (Star Trek: Phoenix-X: "Second Life")

Sometime late into the Federation-Alliance War, Zeta, along with Sith, were crash-landed on Omicron Theta, where the new locals made changes to their structures. Zeta was given a program that allowed him to grow ten times bigger than what he was, making him able to become about the size of a chair. ("Scorpion's Descent")

In 2760, Zeta and Sith were abducted by androids and taken to Kintoka. After fighting the Wraith and discovering Julia, Zeta gives his blessing in Sith's decision to join Julia as non-corporeal beings with the rest of the Prophets. Zeta was left on Kintoka. ("Scorpion's Descent")

Features

Zeta has his own free will and responds like the computer does, with clicks and chirps. Somewhat like a parrot, within his click and chirps, he repeats the odd word of something someone may have said. Zeta has the ability to produce, by use of replication technology, metallic cables, the same way most spiders can make webs. These cables, however, are tripolymer composite; very strong. Zeta's systems are Version 6.0. Zeta can interface with consoles and computers through his legs and web-cables, but, he's typically only as advanced as current Federation technology. (Star Trek: 001, Biography)

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