Ikkara sighed. This was not going well at all. They were so... random. No reasonable explanation presented itself to this particular spot.

“Look here. See this black dwarf? Right there? Why would the Humans pass so many ships through here? It's pointless.”She pointed to the nebula, lit in a false-color image.

“Perhaps some religious significance...”

She considered. What if it is the infamous Sol? Ne, couldn't be...

“Yes! Of course! I have it now, it has to be... Come on, we need to see the Ambassador right away!”

“Well? What do you think, Ambassador?”

The encounter suit did not move for a moment. Then, without warning, it whirled suprisingly quickly. She hadn't known it could move that fast. The 'head' looked at her, apparently calm. But what lies under the surface?

“We have always been here.”

And with that criptic sentence, Ambassador Sheridan left.

Ne- similar in meaning to our nah, it here expresses disbelief.