Aha, here it comes, thought Phule. “I find it hard to imagine an adversary that your forces wouldn’t be able to deal with on their own,” he said.
“Nevertheless, we have encountered one,” said Korg. “They are here on the planet even as we speak. And yet I tell you in all candidacy, we have been unable to make even the slightest maneuvers against them.”
“That’s very surprising, sir,” said Phule. “What can you tell us about these invaders? The more intelligence you can give me, the better we can determine how to assist you.”
“What we have, you shall have,” said Korg. “All our intercepts of their communications shall be given to you. But to initiate you into the situation, behold! Here, in the shell of an armored land beast, is what we know.” He waved his foreclaw, and an assistant turned on a view screen.
A aerial view of the Zenobian capital appeared, recognizable despite an odd distortion. “This is an intercepted high-frequency signal from an alien surveillance device,” said Korg. “Without going into details, I will tell you that this and several other devices have been systematically monitoring our major population centers and military installations.”
“I see,” said Phule. “Have you eliminated the possibility that these signals are from some internal agency-monitoring the traffic or weather, for example?”
“This occurred to us, but it seemed very unlikely, even at first,” said Korg. “To begin with, the frequency employed is not one used by any of our normal communications equipment. In fact, the signals were first discovered quite by accident. Only when it was discovered that the source was mobile did we know they were artificially generated.”