Prosh

Prosh is the name attributed to a fictional artificial intelligence featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is part of the mainstream Marvel Universe and first appeared in X-Factor #24 in January, 1988.

Prosh was an artificial computer intelligence that was once housed within a massive ship designed by the Celestials. The ship crashed on Earth eons ago, but was eventually discovered by En Sabah Nur before he donned the purple lipstick of the immortal baddie known as Apocalypse. Apocalypse used this ship for millennia, but it eventually came into the possession of the modern-era superhero team X-Factor. During this time, the combined components of the A.I. as well as the vessel he was installed in was saddled with the uncreative name "Ship".

Ship eventually came into the possession of the time-traveling mercenary/freedom fighter Nathaniel Christopher Charles Askani'son Dayspring Summers, who did the world a huge favor by shortening his moniker to an easy to say nickname, Cable. Cable used Ship as his main base of operations for quite some time. He gave the computer A.I. the nickname, Professor, after Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men. Cable also had robot drones aboard the ship, also named after members of the X-Men, including Hank, Scott and Jean.

In time, the Professor's programming was downloaded into a bipedal robotic form. It was at this juncture that it began to refer to itself as "Prosh".