Marida is the Avatar of the Hephaistos Black Hole, on the event horizon of which Dylan was trapped. When the Andromeda Ascendant was pulled onto the event horizon of a black hole, it, and everything else, froze in time. Its avatar, Marida, pulled Dylan's own essence out of his body, insisting he was her husband who had come home. However, Dylan refused to exist out of linear time. and that his loyalty was to the Commonwealth and the Eureka Maru was pulling the Andromeda out.