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 HK-bots. He followed them until the Oleanna system and is still wandering there, despite the gruesome destiny of his new-found family (HK-catastrophe).