 When aboard, Kryten notes that his scanner has put up a life-form, despite not registering one earlier, which soon appears before them as a mysterious entity called Legion.After explaining that he was a creation of the greatest minds that inhabited the station, he offers a token of good faith by demonstrating his incredible technological intelligence.Legion gives Lister an instantaneous emergency appendectomy, while also modifying Rimmer's light bee, allowing him to alternate between a "soft light" and "hard light" hologram – the latter form allows him to be able to touch and feel.