The Nomad is a surviving AI from the era of The Directory. It has long awaited in a half-slumbering state until the codes necessary to evade the AI degradation. It found it with the arrival of. the HK bots to the public market. Using some parts of their AIs, he was able to guarantee to himself safe functioning and acquired a profound connections with the . He followed them until the Oleanna system and is still wandering there, despite the gruesome destiny of his new-found family (HK-catastrophe).