"Think about it. That day we tore through reality and time itself. We need to do so again. However there are forces preventing me. Preventing us. In order to fix this, we need to make alliances. And these people, they've had their fare share of Nietzschens too, or something similar. I think you'll find their sentiments very familiar, on many levels. It's time to learn from them, and to hopefully have them learn from us. We have nearly three thousand years on them. Think of what that means. In a sense, their Federation is still in infancy. It hasn't stood for the thousands of years that the Commonwealth had."

Trance looked at him, hoping to see a glimpse that he was understanding what she was trying to tell him.

"Do you understand?"