[quote=TehAlphaGamer]
"You state that you will try to create a new universe, a peaceful existence with no war or hatred? And this comes from a collective with so much blood of the innocent spilt on their hands that it's practically null and void! We do not wish to fight anybody! We push to fight only because we have to, only because it's to safeguard our economic and technological bond with the Equiis Pact. But how you can say you try to establish a better future, aside from the impending war against the Equestrians, when you have slaved, assimilated and slaughtered innocent races for years is absolutely disgusting! And in your disturbing hypocrisy will only lead destruction in its wake. So, fine! Try to fight off the Equestrians, try to gain more dominance. But when the Sazkarjhit war machine tears Triarius' sky asunder with the force of a thousand burning suns, then...then you will realize how wrong you are, to try and create a new universe by yourself. Even without your help, the Collective will crumble just like every great empire that got too ahead of itself."
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A voice in the mind

"You're people can talk of innocent blood, at least ours is for a trade off that is actually benevolent! Your war machine is so woefully inadequate... We have more war ships than you have people, how do you intend to match our output with your small number of planets? We have survived worse than you, than this war, throughout the ages. But I digress, the Collective is not an Empire. It is not a nation. It is an idea... You can kill the preacher, but you can't kill the idea... Especially when your own allies hold it so strongly... Peace... Equality... Can you not see the parallels? Are you blind to it? We do not want dominance, we want payment! Perhaps you cannot see it, because it is not your own blood that has been spent in it's pursuit, not your own who have died in the hopes of achieving something they have taken. Perhaps you do not understand. But we understand you, we see the electricity flowing in your mind, we see your ships and we see wars... We see the end, we see cords being cut, everywhere we see death and decay. Why can't you see? We have seen. We have seen and learnt. Ah... we receive a thought from a far off place... an image of times long past..." *A thought was sent, a memory perhaps, of a time long since on. Thousands of Triarii, strange creatures and flying discs within a city, fighting and dying on a planet as they do battle with something unseeable. In the sky, hundreds of ships burn as they fall into the planet, streaks of plasma fire spraying across space... A group of four Triarii stand, protecting an Aetherii from the unknown threat with their powers before being struck by bolts from an alien weapon and falling to the floor, their bodies imploding. A strange transport ship lands and the Aetherii and a single surviving Triarii board it, along with whoever the memory belongs to. The memory turns, revealing the view out of the back, tens of thousands maybe more, all dead as a river of blood flows between them, and some strange alien craft approaches, firing it's weapons at the transport, which narrowly avoids it as the back closes again* "AH... our worlds burnt, our people slaughtered, our blood ran in rivers across islands made from the corpses of the dead. All for a better future... a bright one... a promise. A promise that should be kept!"

Message to the AIF (Triarian)
"We have sacrificed much human, where is our reward? Why must the Equestrians try to steal it, as they steal everything? Our ancestors died, again and again and again, an endless war, our sacrifice for the greater good! We were promised a reward, one which we could use to unite the universe. We do not see a reward, and yet they lure away our guides, who slip a blade into our spines after all we did."

Message to the AIF (Umbrae Populus)
"The Triarii are more angry than we have ever seen or ever dreamed. It is as though they are sharing one mind, but this mind is one with war and hate and depression. But secretly they know... Yes, secretly they know exactly what they are doing. And we will follow them to the end, whatever that end may be."

Message to the AIF (Aru'Shumi)
"MURI PRE NI'SHUM!"

Message to the AIF (Saeva Simius)
"We stand ready to destroy any who we are ordered to, those who stand before us light the night skies in flame! And yet, we do not want this..."

Message to the AIF (Selkath)
"The Collective is rallying behind the Triarii, as usual but... we may follow, but we don't agree here... Make them see sense, human"