Erich's heart when he heard how little of a chance the galaxy had in fighting against the Naraku invasion from both Andromeda and Triangulum. After all, these were two entire galaxies full of wriggling bugs which sought to devour and exterminate all biological life within the Milky Way.
How could one galaxy defend against two entire galaxies' worth of enemies? Galaxies mind you that were quite a bit a larger than the milky way? It made sense that defeat was all but certain. In fact, a less than five percent chance of victory and survival was actually rather good when Erich really thought about it.
But when Tia said they had a chance of increasing the odds of victory, albeit with uncertain prospects for the future, Erich was quick to grab onto the robotic woman's shoulders and ask for an answer from her.
"What is it, Tia? What can increase our odds of survival, and by how much?"