Patrol group four "New contacts detected." The bridge officer reported, and the overseer nodded as his head began to glow orange. The four ships of the patrol group turned and cut a hole in space, gliding inside. They dropped back into the primary universe at their destination and looked upon the ships, scanning them "Archives report unknown vessels and a Supreme vessel" "Supreme? Clarify." "Universal supreme collective, contact not made in over 50,000 years." "Unit copies, open contact with both the unknown ship and the Supreme ship." "I obey" Both messages were in Triarian Standard, commonly associated with the tongue of Latin, and both read "This is Overseer Licinius of Patrol Group Four of the Collective. Identify." High Command center "Long range external surveillance and detection systems report hostilities at a human world" One of the Umbrae Populus that was manning a station reported, and the Overlord he was reporting to nodded, tapping a few commands "Patrol groups 6, 7 and 9 are to proceed to Human World and diagnose the situation. Failure to comply will result in hive world assignment." The Overlord ordered over comms, as the holograms of the three patrol group overseers popped into view, each slammed his fist to his chest (Except patrol group 9's overseer, who slammed her fist to her chest) and bowed their heads, reporting "We obey" Lakfakalle The total of twelve ships arrived on system examining the situation and drifting slowly forwards, preparing their weaponry and raising their shields, pinging a message to both the Terrans and the new contact who scand suspected to be another old race "Attention please" The AI began "Identify, explain, diagnose"