yobeefjerky I want to see the fucking Sylandro fart-cloud responsible for these fucking Mak drones.
On a more serious note - if the Collective have to get involved, they would rather be involved at the end. Some of the Rogue Core-AI might be happy to sacrifice themselves to make the Mak a bigger threat though (Looking at you, Argus-Maelstrom, you poetic, blind bastard), but the main reason is that, knowing Prime, and knowing he isn't an unkillable divine entity (it's just extremely hard to kill him), he's going to have to wait until the Mak have sent literally every single one of their drones to this universe, THEN they manipulate the Mak in a super-weapon like move that allows the united factions to wreck Mak drones left and right. Fail to destroy them during this time and the Collective are guaranteed to be screwed, so that's why Prime will refuse to help at first.