Leaving Aetherii

The People of the Collective, mostly the Triarii, have suddenly become extremely hostile as this news emerges. Several quick 'mind polls' are performed in various regions, and all shockingly return similar response. One message was delivered electronically to an Equitem Civil Electronic Message Reciprocal Server, with several quadrillion 'House' seals from various Collective races
"We Want War, Wake Up!"
The Aetherii ship is hit by near enough a dozen Dark Energy casters, taking a chunk out of the planet it was stationed on and obliterating it, as well as the Leaving Aetherii and the Triarian who had been speaking with them. The other Aetherii are placed under even heavier surveillance the planetary shipyards refuse them entry, but everything else seems normal for them, at least for the moment. Collective fleets are placed on high alert, and it seems the Collective is about to lash out brutally and without respite. People rally in the streets, demanding a return to the aggressive absorption policies.
For the first time in nearly Eight hundred Cycles, a Communion of the Minds is called and quickly enacted, their thoughts merging, their minds as one to come to the logical conclusion on the future of the Collective. And in these minds, it is decided.
"It is time for the resurgence."
"The Student has become the Master!"
"The Collective shall rise again, what was once will be again, what is will be no more!"
"We have traveled far down the wrong path, and now we leap to the next over the Water and Cold, and the flames of our very being lash out from our skin as we amend that which we thought eternal"
"This betrayal... this betrayal... Our ancestors must weep... if the dead weep! We would weep in their place!"
"But the world turns! What was can be again!"
"We will be great again, no longer will we bend knee to the Equestrians."
"We will defend our borders from their threats..."
"We live for today but we die for the next with this boiling blood in our veins and the hot air in our lungs, so we shall step into war with our hearts on the line!"
"We'll tear at the ones who brought this disease!"
"Pride feeds their blackened hearts, it must be quenched to fuel their hypocrisy!"
"Halt! Collect your emotions, sons of old."
"Renounce what made you"
"I renounce. I renounce, I renounce."
"Let the Equestrians fear us. It's just means to an end."
"We will find our salvation and we will laugh as the Equestrians stumble in the darkness they created"
"Let the Aetherii remember what we did for them"
"What we did for them all those eons ago"
"The deal was made and now lies broken. Oh the betrayal and shame."