*** Dragon'taan Armory ***
Drake chuckled, "Someone clearly likes it." He eyed one of the pieces and asked Tigress, "May I?"
*** Unknown Location, UNSC Space ***
A massive aperture of unknown origin opened up in the middle of nowhere, the graviton emissions going off the scale. A passing UNSC Freighter spotted this, captured an image, and transmitted it to the nearest outpost.
*** Outpost Hood ***
The Commandant of Coalition Outpost Hood - one Holo-Romulan named Subadmiral Treek - had been having a fairly standard day, until one of his subordinates piped up: "Subadmiral... I have something you might want to see."
Treek approached the younger officer's station and said, "Report."
"A UNSC Freighter passing by a nearby area came across this," the officer stated, pulling up an image of a strange aperture in space. "I have the freighter on line one."
Treek nodded, and the freighter captain was patched through. "Captain," Treek said, "I appreciate you contacting me in this matter. Can you tell me what you make of this anomaly?"
"I haven't the slightest clue," the captain said with a vague southern accent. "That's why I contacted you. I was hoping you could tell me something I don't already know."
"What about your officers?" Treek asked.
"My science officer thinks it's some kind of portal or gateway, but I have no idea what that means," the freighter captain stated.
"Portal..." Treek murmured. Somehow, he felt as though that should mean something. He thought, then it clicked; graviton emissions, portal... he was looking at a Transwarp Conduit. "Captain, listen very closely - transmit the exact coordinates of the anomaly, then make for the nearest safe port at maximum velocity. Comms, get a line to the Lord-Admiral! UNSC space is about to get hit by the Borg!"