Gladiaxa
In a freak twist of perspective, we cut to the owner of the dimension the Portal leads to - Zero-Quad.
"OH I SEE NOW - IT IS DAMAGED. THOUGHT IT WAS A CLOAKED ENEMY... I'LL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT."
The Heavy fighter is recalled into the portal, as the unknown ship makes the transition as well.
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This dimension has an overall pale Violet color, with many bright pink orbs and red everything else. It's almost like a swirling galaxy of lights... to those who could see past the Collective's natural and emplaced defenses. Or manage to survive them. Most mortals who end up in places like these just get even more confused and eventually go insane trying to make sense of anything, as there are memories from many other alternate realities stored here. From here, however, there are not only "Stars," but Droneships and megastructures as well. The "Galaxy" seems to have a lot of thought put into its design - each megastructure is in a section of the "galaxy" and they do not move along with the galaxy's rotation.
The Unknown ship appears through an entry rift with a specialized Beacon nearby, guarded by two of Zero-Quad's trademark "Standoff" Subcore, but their forms adapted and simplified to fit amongst the dimensional layer they are currently in - they seem to have Tetrahedral cores with a Cresecent-shaped forward and three additional hedrons located in the back... you could almost sense a... person is inside those polyhedral cores in the center. What type of person? It varies.
The Subcores stationed as greeters into the dimension make a scan of the unknown ship.
