Right, so from now, this is going to be what the Collective does. In order to keep it so its obvious everyone knows I am still playing them but at the same time protecting my plan for them internally from getting distorted due to recent events, almost anyway the Collective show up will be small and covert.
I came up with an excuse for their isolation. They are currently in a war, far, far away of a massive size which requires a huge devotion of resources, thus they are moving External stabilisation forces to this combat zone.