So this was something that I forgot to mention in my original post, but I had intended to say that Akka could be ONE of the Nine, not the whole Nine. There is a grimoire card that lists what the Nine could be, and there are exactly nine possibilities: 1. The Nine are survivors of the cis-Jovian colonies who made a compact with an alien force to ensure their own survival. 2. The Nine are deep-orbit warminds who weathered the Collapse in hardened stealth platforms. 3. The Nine are ancient leviathan intelligences from the seas of Europa or the hydrocarbon pits of Titan. 4. The Nine arrived in a mysterious transmission from the direction of the Corona-Borealis supercluster. 5. The Nine are the firstborn Awoken and their minds now race down the field lines of the Jupiter-Io flux tube. 6. The Nine are Ghosts who pierced the Deep Black without a ship and meditated on the hissing silence of the heliopause. 7. The Nine are the aspects of the Darkness, broken by the Traveler's rebuke, working to destroy us from within. 8. The Nine is a viral language of pure meaning. 9. The Nine are the shadows left by the annihilation of a transcendent shape, burned into the weft of what is. I think that each of these possibilities represents one member of the nine, and the last one is, in my humble opinion, Akka. Number one could be a group of humans or things that were once humans and are possibly now taken, like Xur, but I doubt any of the others are.