
Richard asks her name and she chooses Iara and changes her form into a new one to match the name. Richard asks the AI if she had heard of Asimov's three laws and she says that she had. Niko and Richard talked to Iara, who told them they would probably have to explain a few things to the Achaia. He says that he is not judging but wonders why Dubois would give him a lesser crew on a mission that important. He gives her a tablet with a dream team for combat and asks why a "punk hacker" was running diagnostics on their AI, to which Niko responds that she woke up the crew that she was assigned and tells him that Ian and his crew had the most experience with the Salvare before the mission and says that they had been through too much to be judged by him. Niko tells Richard that she has not slept for 36 hours and reminds him that it was his idea for her to take the mission instead of Yerxa and he stands by the decision. Niko talked to Richard after his soma and told him not to judge them. This shocks him because he wonders if Dillon Conner was not awake yet, but Niko tells him that August is the chief engineer, which surprises him, but says that they should see if the AI could tell them about the Achaia. Cas tells him that August was checking William in order to see if there was any Achaian infiltration.


He tells them that the war started the moment the Achaians had implanted the bug in Sasha's brain and wants to talk to the new AI. Richard complains that he was not taken out of soma before because they were already at war without them even realizing. Richard is woken up after Niko was concerned that there could be war with the Achaia.
