Natalia was charged with returning to Imperial space and fulfilling two main objectives - The destruction of enemy targets and further information gathering. Whilst she was aware of the strength of the enemy forces, she and her team still underestimated what they would be going up against and she escaped as the soul survivor of the operation.

She subsequently spent several weeks drifting in an escape pod in Iliad, an evacuated Independent World system, close to the Imperial border. She was eventually rescued by Cratos, that was sweeping the system to check that it had truly been abandoned.

The correlated reports that Natalia had been entrusted with went on to become known as The Grace Report.

Natalia was part of a team that was fighting against the Pandoran soldiers that had invaded Mythos. When her team were lured into a trap in Eastfields Park, her commanding officer told her to escape. Discarding her rifle, she escaped up a tree and waited until the enemy had left, before coming back down.

Intending to escape using a Sabretooth recon vehicle, she fought whom she believed might be a Pandoran soldier come to investigate it, later discovering them to be Simon Dodds. The two then began making their way to the north of the city in the vehicle, before they were attacked by a group of Pandorans they encountered on the way. Fearing that Dodds had been killed when the Sabretooth went over, Natalia escaped to safety, though she started back later to look for him.

Natalia told Dodds a lot about herself when the two rested for the evening, in turn asking him a lot about his life in the navy and what he had done before joining. As the two slept, she heard Dodds mention Estelle's name a few times and questioned him about it in the morning. She said nothing further on the subject, however.

Upon finding Estelle and Chaz, Natalia and Estelle became somewhat confrontational towards one another, Estelle shocked to discover that the two had spent the night together. Natalia herself was then very shocked to discover that Dodds was one of the ATAF pilots, after James Potter recognised his name.

After rescuing Kelly and Enrique, Natalia confessed that she hadn't been entirely truthful with Dodds as to the nature of either the Pandoran soldiers or the ATAFs. Elliott Parks grew angry with her when he realised that she was about to reveal the truth behind the origins of the soldiers, what had happened to the Mitikas Empire and the true intentions of Operation Sudarberg. After Chaz stepped in to defend the woman, Natalia went on to reveal the truth, further angering Parks.

Natalia departed the group on the coast, joining James Potter's unit and wishing the Knights well. It became clear that Natalia and Parks did not share a good relationship together, and it appeared to run deeper than just the revelations of Sudarberg in the APC.