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...as the scavangers were trying to bring the station back into a somewhat normal state and Noble-Mealstrom was talking to the remote-controlled Eric, another rather unique, rift signature appeared at the borders of the site...
...only a few moments later a new ship entered the sector, it seemed to be part of the collective though the ship-type was unknown to this point...

...a quick scan ran through the system apparently roughly making out the current situation, as it appears there were a group of Assault-class ships nearby which were either detroyed or offline by a sort of emp wave, the ship had both it´s shields and weapons active though it did not show any hostilities yet...

...there seemed to be another ship nearby, a assault-coreship, apparently belonging to Noble-Mealstrom, curiously the AI within...was gone?
The new DC ship moved closer apparently to make investigations...

...as the ship reached the abandoned coreship it ran several scans, then a telepathic message reached Noble-Mealstrom, it seemed to be the foreign Omni-Core that recently appeared in the territory of the Collective...
"Noble-Mealstrom, this is Galvanic-Aether, do you require assistance?"