"They use technology to do it. Some sort of personal cloaking devices. I saw those in action when I ran into them in the convoy battle. I wanted to look at one of their machines, since I'm a mechanic, and see if I could figure out how they worked. Maybe reverse-engineer it for Nexus use. But they made sure to clean up after themselves."

Palmer's thoughtful, his 🤔 mirroring the Doctor's. He's thinking, which isn't something he does that often.

"I think it's fair enough that they want their own territory, especially since they have nowhere to live back home and they're in the middle of a war. But they didn't promise not to change the amout of land they claimed, or stop murdering trespassers. What is your sense of the ceasefire terms?"