Drakador_Chaos Constable-Unknown put his bulky forearms behind his back - they could still be seen through his body. He accurately assumes a worried facial expression.
"We have encountered exactly ONE Type-X Universal threat like the entity that came through that tear in reality, and that was during an expansion effort in the 4th dimension. At the time, the rogue core Alpha-Alpha was still part of the Collective, and he was an invaluable asset to the offensive effort against this being. What makes it peculiar is that Type-X Universal threats are able to persuade Core-AI to insist that it is a friendly entity - this applied mostly to Explorer-Class AI. They appear to be more susceptible to internal anomalies than any other Class."
"Fortunately, not all of the Explorer-Class are that gullible. When the first Type-X universal threat we encountered continued to fuel itself at our expense - this one fed on thought and memory, which we could not stand for despite trying to talk it into finding alternative sustenance - Prime decided to strike first, and then the rest of the Collective followed up, with Alpha-Alpha and Wing-Pandora leading the offensives. Wing-Pandora was able to trace and maintain pathways in the timeline-matrix that were the most stable, and Alpha-Alpha manipulated those timeframes to do minor-yet-tactical insertions of massed forces to annihilate the embodiments of this Type-X Universal threat. The J-- Well... some other entity took notice and Window-Null initiated diplomatic relations to ensure that we knew what we were doing, and eventually convinced them to help eradicate the threat." The Avatar blinked and seemed to gesture in a way that the other party was supposed to know what they were talking about.
"This sort of Type-X Universal threat feeds on direct-current energy - batteries, anti-matter reactor cores, thermal dynamos, basically anything that supplies electronics with the necessary energy to function. The last Type-X Universal threat we faced had fed off of temporal energy, memories and mental life-energy - something our droneships and simulated Androids run on. The loss of either type of energy is not fatal, but it definitely cripples us, or even the most powerful of factions that harness it. Prime is not sure the same tactic will work twice - we don't know which layer or where within said layer they are based on, all we know is that they are chaotic in nature, live in a dimension possibly higher than the 6th, feed off of energy, and are assumed to have vessel-like forms, much akin to the Type-X threat we fought before. We speculate they do not significantly alter any of the dimensions that affect this universe to a degree of instability enough to warrant intervention of divine proportions."
Constable-Unknown compiled a list of what he just said to a more readable format -- with some redactions here and there -- and sent it to the archives on the Tigris cruiser the Corvus couple came out on. "In shorthand: my personal opinion is that the Collective hasn't enough information on this entity to warrant drastic measures until it is abundantly clear they are an active threat."
