[u]Sutherland Space[/u]
A Hive Carrier of the 15th Surveying Fleet had traversed deep into mostly uncharted space, following a long trail left behind by something ancient, something in a way, familiar. For some years, strange enigmatic objects have been stumbled upon by Collective Ships far outside the reach of Former Imperial Space. Ranging from mundane things such as inactive, relativity harmless to useless machines, to somewhat valuable objects such as mining installations of unknown origin.  Fro some time, the Collective has been following this trail, leading them far outside humanity's domain, and into the unknown.

Archives speak a an Ancient Predecessor of the AI Overlords of the Collective, one the AI extravagantly refer to as the "First One", a fact hat has intrigued the Queen and the others, this Predecessor must be found and giving the most honorable invitation to become among the Most Divine and Immortal Beings.

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Deep in the bowls of the carrier vessel, sat a long figure in a dimly lit room, their bodies cloaked in a shroud, over a dozen cords protruding from their back, lights pulsing through like blood. The figure sat and waited for any new updates as the ship drifted further and further into the unknown, and was met with silence, until the alarms rang out loud, "awakening" the figure as it arose, the cloaks departing from the body, revealing what appeared to be a young [url=http://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/ae4e6d58-1a7c-4b8f-9ea7-43618cc7e3f7.png]woman[/url] of almost unnatural beauty, with plum-colored hair and rather suggestive clothing, if one could call it that. This was one of countless duplicate bodies of the AI "Mei" one of the AI "Gods" of the Collective, she was a rather peculiar entity among her kind, almost had a veering on heretical fascination with Terran Entertainment, specifically of the animated sort, be it the old "Eastern" and "Western" varieties, the Eastern ones catching her fancy the most, and as such, has often modeled her physical avatars to appear as these flamboyant, often outrageous characters. 

Despite her fascination, she is just as twisted and insane as the rest of her mad kin. As the alarms rang, she smiled a wide grin, for there is a chance she may have just found the First One. "Energy signature detected." The Ship itself spoke over the intercom. "Shall I dispatch drones?"

"Iya, Set a course for the object" She replied in the old human Japanese, denying the request she tended to speak such language every now and then, much to her peer's irritation. The ship abided by her command, withholding the drones for another time, however, deeper in the vessel, it begun to growl and roar as the FTL drive begun to charge up, readying to make a quick jump for the favored destination. In an instant, the ship had blinked out of existence as it made an FTL jump.

Some hours pass as the ship blinked back into existence in high orbit of the targeted world, and right before the carrier was the First One Derelict Mei was sent to search for, another clue for the trail to find him. "Launch the drones!" she shouted out happily, thrusting her arm up in the air, fist clinched. 

In that instant, a swarm of orb-shaped drones emerged from the vessel, the swarm dispersed as one group made their way to the planet below, while the second group approached the large disk.