Admiral Star Honbashi

Admiral Star Honbashi is a special liaison admiral representing JUDCON within the Star Navy, in the Prime Universe. She is the titular head of Star Navy-JUDCON Police Operations, and coordinates its four police ships: the ERS Pegasus, ERS Centaur, ERS Sphynx, and the ERS Gryphon. She comes from a long line of police officers, leading back to twentieth-century Japan, and she was once XO and then captain of the ERS Centaur. Before her assignment to the Centaur, Admiral Honbashi was an interrogations expert for police operations in modern Kyoto, where she dealt with infamous human-trafficking ring "Hanajouwa," or "Flower Girl Circle."

Star is a keen-eyed but compassionate technical expert and maintains a close relationship and correspondence with all four captains under her command; she has served with or mentored several of them. She came into conflict with the more militant and steely style of Gryphon's previous captain, Nell Dorian, whom she recommended for a transfer to the Star Navy's military ships, which resulted in Dorian's receipt of the ERS Fenris. Dorian would have otherwise been Honbashi's natural and assumed successor as JUDCON admiral, since she was then senior captain among the police ships.

Star is one-fourth Cetian, and has some subdued and nearly subconscious empathic ability, making her a strong interrogator but making immediate violence difficult for her; her mother was among the first half-Cetians, and Star does not know her Cetian grandfather very well. She stays out of the field as much as she can now, instead giving other captains the benefit of her experience, research, and innovations. Star also coordinates with JUDCON District Attorneys, who process the cases brought back by police ships, and advocates for her crews' investigative integrity when it is challenged.

Star Honbashi is currently in use by the ERS Gryphon storyline, and is not an otherwise-available NPC. Please inquire before utilizing her in another storyline.

Family Members in Service
Ensign Nova Honbashi is an interrogations expert aboard the ERS Sphynx; she is Star's niece.