 Tisiphone defeats the security systems, during which battle the sleeping AI accidentally awakes and impresses on Alicia - but not melding, rather, forming a second personality patterned on Alicia's own, but fiercely devoted to the protection of the first.Since the new AI personality has as little right to exist as Alicia does to be stealing the alpha synth, it naturally throws its lot in with Alicia and Tisiphone.The trio blast out of the system at high speed, easily eluding the warships sent after them and the solar-system's ring of defensive forts.