It was silent before he arrived. At dawn a cloaked man arrived to a town on the border of unified space, matt's drones and security forces already conglomerating to handle an invader or visitor, the man walking slow past them as if they weren't even there, their fire striking through each other rather than upon him, the man's smile growing ever wider and wider as he walked, his top hat hiding his face, his suit not even tarnishing from the laser and false mass fire leveled at him, the blasts of energy leveling the town around him rather than the man that the drones were aiming at, smoke trailing off from the cigarette held loosely between his lips, his steps blackening the earth as he tred ever closer to the main building acting as the central command for the entire planet, it's automated defenses coming online to try and mow him down to no avail as his inhuman grin widens, his teeth a blindingly white maw of spikes in two rows, his arm stretching out to one side, holding just a card, the fire seeming to not touch it in the slightest as he simply moves it to the other side as if swiping with it, the building and all the defenses collapsing in a singular motion, his intentions made clear as the video feed was broadcast along the entire empire, informing matt, to extension tsubaki, and finally to extension stein. The noa were back.