When Donna asked Saturnalia if she would be fine with the instructor commanding, she replied, "A sound plan. As for staying close to the ship, I would have it no other way. Since coming here, the forces to which I owe my allegiance seem to have vanished. I have no way to contact my former allies, no idea where my prior enemies are, and no way to know who our current enemies are. That being said, I agree to follow a path of minimal aggression and choose to stick to defending."

When the scouts returned with a new suit, Saturnalia kept the Virtue's beam bazooka pointed at it in case it attacked. When Graham quipped at the size of her suit, she simply kept silent and shook her head. Among Union, Graham was a war hero, but now Nalia saw him as just a cocky ace with mobile suit envy. She also perceived him as simple-minded, with no appreciation for strategy, nor for the utility and necessity that an artillery suit like the Virtue brings. As far as she was concerned, Graham was her polar opposite: he wanted to duel other gundams, while she wanted to disengage and bombard; he wanted to get to know his enemy, while she saw them as numbers and statistics; he enjoyed the thrill of battle, while she saw no reason or purpose to fight unless she had orders from a world that seemed now so far away.

"You know," Saturnalia began, speaking to Donna, "You're fortunate you and the instructor came together. I mean, I knew of Captain Aker because he's fairly famous, but I hadn't met him until now, and well, he's kind of just a battle nut. And well, the prisoner is a notorious terrorist, so I knew of her as well, but we're not exactly friends."