Amellia and Yipyap are a pair of Androids who serve as directory assistance, coordination and general navigational help in Titan Garden. Titan is a big and very circular colony, so it's easy to get lost, but thankfully information assistants like Amellia are around to help point wayward travelers in the right direction. Yipyap is around too. Amellia is quiet and observant, keeping mostly to herself and maintaining a neutral but friendly presence when dispensing valuable information and helping connect people with their destinations. If you happen to see the pair of droids around, stop by and say hi! Despite her professional mannerisms Amellia always has a moment to spare for a kind word and a warm greeting. Yipyap always has a moment to spare for a treat.
Amellia is a HAL-4 droid built by Delta Astronautics, and is the current director of the Titan's Directory Assistance program. Employing a number of agents stationed in shifts throughout Titan Garden, Directory Assistants are able to connect to a large up-to-date system to quickly figure out what people are looking for based on incomplete, misremembered or even mostly-wrong details, produce a directory listing and connect a traveler with an efficient route from the Assistant's location to that destination point. Directory Assistants can be found standing by tall blue lampposts, and they wear a pair of gloves connected to a special computer that allows them to project holographic data panels- it's usually visual reminders like this which help people figure out where it is they're actually trying to go. These holoscreens have a special feature to them, allowing them to render 3D maps in 2D planes that can be interacted with by touch- with this feature a traveler can rotate, zoom and poke around a live-update map of Titan Garden to better find what they're looking for, or see that it's not where they thought it was, a misassumption Amellia and her team are happy to correct. Once a destination has been found and a route has been plotted, Amellia and the other Directory Assistants can upload a small map program to a traveler's personal comms device, enabling them to follow the route on their own. Shortly after they arrive at their destination, the map program will delete itself from their device. Nice and neat!
A novel feature of Titan Garden's central directory computer is that it's a large database structured like a starship's navigational computer, but tuned to a very small and very dense cluster of location data and traversable routes. By combining the features of large information databases with the system structure of a starship computer, both Delta and Accra droids are able to quickly and comfortably access and navigate Titan's systems, making both makes of Android strong candidates for employment in the Directory Assistance program. Both Delta and Accra droids can be found under the Assistants' blue lampposts throughout the station's high-traffic areas, and they're both equally capable at providing information and directional guidance. Organic people and other model droids tend to have a harder time engaging with the station's central computer system, so you'll generally only find Deltas and Accra droids filling this role. Amellia acts as the program's director, but she is an old droid who loves to help people so she still schedules herself for shifts at the lampposts working a beat with the rest of her staff. It's nice to be outside, to feel the changes in the weather simulators, to hear the buzz and bustle of life on Titan- she can still connect to the network and fulfill her directorial role remotely, which is a perk of being an Android. She really is just happy to help people.
While Directory Assistant staff rotates out of different posts on different shifts in different high-traffic locations throughout Titan, it's easy to spot Amellia, not by her chassis or her title as director, but by her dog. Yipyap is one of a discontinued line of robot dogs developed by Aoba Lifelike Systems Specialists intended to provide companionship on long-haul starships, and as such comes equipped with gravity-inversion hover feet for zero-G traversal and a powerful biomass energy converter, allowing a starfarer to !feed them almost anything. Part of this core design involved simulating a dog brain that also had access to Terran speech capabilities, allowing for an animal friend who could talk back to you. This didn't pan out quite as planned, and the line was discontinued. Amellia adopted one of the discontinued dogbots and Yipyap has been a constant companion of hers ever since, always staying by her side- or, mostly-always. He'll wander off sometimes, but he always finds his way back, usually with some mystery object he found somewhere. He really loves to share !restaurant recommendations with starfarers, he knows all the best places to eat, and he can !speak every language of Dog. He's very dumb but he is a good companion, and Amellia is happy for his presence.
Sometimes Yipyap likes to follow people along on their journey, possibly out of some dog instinct to shepherd people to where they need to be but more likely just because they caught Yipyap's fleeting attention span. If you find Yipyap has followed you home, don't worry! All Aoba robot pet models feature an internal !help manual that can be accessed wirelessly from any personal comms device, which provides simple care instructions. Yipyap will stick around as long as there are snacks and treats to eat and he'll head home to Amellia when he feels like it. And if he happens to get a little lost, that's fine as well! Amellia is the head of Directory Assistance, she can ping Titan's central computer and send Yipyap a map home wherever he happens to be. He's a good dog, just make sure you still have all your shoes after he's decided to pay you a visit.