Ursula Monroe

**Ursula Monroe** is one of the recurring characters in the second season of *Another Life*. She is portrayed by Rekha Sharma.

Ursula is a software engineer and the creator the AIs William and Gabriel.

### Season 2

In *Will to Power*, Ursula appears in a series of flashbacks working on the *Salvare's* AI Gabriel who is her creation. Ursula expresses 100 percent confidence in Gabriel despite his bravado and arrogance, but just days before the *Salvare* launch, his fear and survival instinct get to be too much for Gabriel and overwhelm his other emotions. As a result, General Robert Frost orders Ursula to replace Gabriel with another AI. Ursula sadly brings Gabriel online and informs him of the situation and that he will be replaced with another AI interface that has streamlined emotional parameters and can work with his coding. Gabriel angrily accuses Ursula of cannibalizing him and he warns her that it won't work. Although Ursula genuinely wishes that they have more time together to fix the bugs in Gabriel, she is forced to have Gabriel archived and a new AI interface brought online: William.

In the present, Gabriel is revealed to have still existed in the background of William's programing the same time. However, Ursula made the mistake of not separating the core codes of the two AIs, resulting in them being intertwined and in a fight for dominance. At one point, Gabriel suggests to Iara that when they get back to Earth, Ursula might be able to properly seperate William and Gabriel as she should've done in the first place. Ultimately, the *Salvare* crew are forced to delete Gabriel in order to stop him from going to the Achianas. However, as a result of their codes being so intertwined, this requires deleting William as well and performing a clean reinstall of the AI interface in order to destroy Gabriel.

In *Just a Rat in a Cage*, Seth Gage brings Ursula onboard the *Salvare*. Calling her William's "mother," Seth enlists Ursula's help to hack into William and recover the data on a possible neutrino weapon against the Achaians.

In *What's Bourne / What's Left Behind*, Ursula reveals that she has come to believe that humanity is inherently destructive and that only the Achaian can save the Earth from destruction. Ursula appears to be depressed but sympathetic to William, telling him that she will delete him as a mercy once she's done. However, Ursula quickly grows disillusioned with the Achaia after seeing Seth's destructive and desperate measures. When William begins enacting a plan to rescue Niko Breckinridge and Richard Ncube, Ursula offers him her help and William orders her to buy him some time as the Achaia will try to delete his coding. After Niko and Richard reach Earth, Ursula attempts to help William get out of the implant before Seth destroys it. Thanks to Ursula's help, William escapes in time and Cas subdues Seth who reveals that the Achaia are going to attack.

Ursula joins William and Erik Wallace in studying the data on neutrinos destroying an Achaian Ring and brainstorms with them on how to turn it into a weapon. After they succeed in figuring it out, William and Erik begin turning the ship into a neutrino bomb that can take out a cluster of Achaian ships and buy Ursula time to release the data to rest of the world so that they can weaponize it. When the plan changes into turning the FTL drive into a neutrino weapon, Ursula helps Erik attempt to reconnect it. As an Achaian Ring approaches to destroy the *Salvare*, Erik and Ursula frantically work to reconnect the FTL drive. An explosion lights up the night sky over Earth, although it's unclear which ship was destroyed.

In *D-Day*, it's revealed that Erik and Ursula had managed to reconnect the FTL drive just in time, allowing William to destroy the enemy ship. The two celebrate their success, but Niko warns them that the Achaians will attack in greater force and they need to figure out how to "reload" the weapon.

Ursula later joins the *Salvare's* reunited crew in brainstorming ideas on how to repel the coming Achaian invasion force. Using a surviving Achaia recovered from the destroyed ship's wreckage, the crew learn that the Achaia are artificial lifeforms and come up with the idea of using a computer virus based on human DNA to destroy them. William and Ursula are eventually able to create a virus and a device to upload it into Niko's Soma implant after she melds with the dying Achaian.

The crew are forced to abandon ship just in case in the plan fails as the Achaia have demanded its destruction. Refusing to abandon William as she did with Gabriel, Ursula chooses to remain onboard as William sets the *Salvare* on a course for the Sun.

After the defeat of the Achaia, Ursula helps William make contact with Earth by projecting his image through a wormhole into the Artifact field. In addition, William tells Niko that Ursula thinks that she can eventually make him a corporeal body using Achaian technology. William and Ursula inform everyone that the micro-wormholes bombarding the solar system are from hundreds of other alien species reaching out and thanking humanity for freeing them from the Achaia.

## Appearance

**Season Two (4/10)**

* *Will to Power*
* *Just a Rat in a Cage*
* *What's Bourne / What's Left Behind*
* *D-Day*

## Trivia

* Rekha Sharma, who plays Ursula, previously appeared alongside Kate Vernon, who portrays Ava, in the SciFi series *Battlestar Galactica*. The two women played two of the Final Five Cylons, Tory Foster and Ellen Tigh respectively.