Escorting one of Arkology's senior diplomats on a mission to the Magog World Ship to sign a "peace treaty" Louisa Messereau first met the Andromeda crew while fleeing from former Commonwealth pirates. In a display of her superior piloting ability Messereau managed to survive the encounter with only minor damage to her vessel's slipstream drive, the damage was however still severe enough to require Louisa and the ambassador to ask the Andromeda to return them to their orbital habitat. Louisa was thought to be a long extinct Nietzschean pride surviving for over nine centuries through the mysterious powers of "dream state" used by all citizens of Arkology. Like many of the peace loving inhabitants of the Arkology Messereau originally believed love and compassion would see them through the com