14 years ago, eleven Romulan and possibly Vulcan women, including Oh (who is half-Romulan/half-Vulcan), Narissa and her aunt Ramdha, visited the planet Aia in a system with eight suns to experience the "Admonition". The "Admonition" is an enormously powerful warning of synthetic lifeforms left behind by an ancient civilization. It laid the foundation for the Zhat Vash. Some of these women committed suicide just after the horrible vision, the rest vowed to pursue their mission to destroy synthetic life. Oh plotted the attack on Mars to that end and Ramdha allowed herself to be assimilated to bring down the Borg cube. In the present, Narissa's people have located Elnor on the Borg cube, but he receives help from Seven of Nine. The two proceed to the Queen cell. Seven begins to reactivate the cube, while Narissa orders all xBs to be executed and prepares to blow the still dormant drones into open space. When Soji arrives on La Sirena, Captain Rios seems to know her. He is stunned and goes to his quarters without talking to anyone. Raffi does not trust Soji. She also tells Picard of her suspicion that Jurati not only carried the tracking substance but also killed Maddox. Jurati wakes up and agrees to surrender herself to the authorities on Deep Space 12. Raffi remembered seeing Romulan drawings of eight intersecting rings, which La Sirena's ENH suggests could be an octonary system, a stellar phenomenon so unlikely that it would not possibly exist naturally and might have been constructed as a warning. As Rios refuses to talk with her, Raffi tries to put the remaining pieces of the puzzle together by talking to the five holograms he created. She eventually learns from Rios himself that nine years ago, his ship, the ibn Majid, encountered an unknown alien vessel with two passengers. One of them looked just like Soji and called herself Jana. Captain Vandermeer, however, received a message from Commodore Oh to assassinate the two, otherwise his ship would be destroyed with all hands. Vandermeer complied, but when the furious Rios confronted him, the captain saw no other option but suicide. Rios then covered up the whole incident. The aliens were actually synthetic lifeforms that Oh seeks to destroy after receiving the "Admonition". On the Borg cube, Narissa blows the Borg into space when Seven tries to activate them. However, she gets overpowered by some of the surviving xBs and has to beam away. With the Romulans leaving to attack the homeworld of the Synths, Seven and Elnor take control of the Borg cube. Meanwhile on La Sirena, Soji tries to set a course for her homeworld instead of the planned one to Deep Space 12, but Rios shuts down the ship. Picard asks Rios to fulfill Soji's wish though. In order to be faster than the Romulan fleet, La Sirena enters a Borg transwarp conduit - but with a Romulan ship on the tail.

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