Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-31208684-20180524143700/@comment-29646689-20180529230923

Meanwhile, the combined starfleet of the Alliance to Restore the Multiverse has already arrived about a light year from the Machine. They await the ISS Event Horizon and its passengers, and in the meantime assess their situations.

[ISB colonel] The strike team is behind schedule. Last time we checked, they just left Hex. It can't possibly take them this long to get here.

[40k Warmaster] I got a squad of Space Marines, why can't I just drop them in with the Spartans and purge the place in the name of the Emperor?

[Admiral Zhersis] Only they have the layout of the Furnace, and our ships will be slaughered before they can get into visual range. Even if you get down there, the things guarding the place is beyond even the Primarchs to fight. You underestimate their power.

[UNSC Admiral] What about a long range bombardment? The MACs on the Infinity (disclaimer: UNSC Infinity, not the Rubic) can certainly reach them. And we got a few of these lined up. And you guys have the Doomstars. And we didn't drag a Halo Array here for no reason.

[ISB colonel] At this moment, Furnace is not attacking us since we did not attack it. The moment we fire, it will glass us into slag with that giant shotgun laser. Furnace on 0.1% power can destroy hundreds of planets, and we can't do a thing. And that shield can and will eat up everything we throw at it.

[40k Warmaster] and there's points at orbiting things around Furnace that Tyranid Hive Fleet. And those xeno cubes. And more xeno ships.

[Federation commander] Those are Borg cubes.

[40k Warmaster] Close enough. Well, if we can't Exterminatus them and we can't drop Space Marines, [REDACTED] do we do?

[Admiral Zhersis] We wait. And we prepare.

[ISB colonel] I still think we should send scout droids forward to see what those Borg cubes are up to.

[Admiral Zhersis] It's unwise decisions then.