Opening moves

A convoy of starships from the Deep space fleet entered neutral space in formation in response to the presence of a large fleet of alien vessels. An alien fleet of what could only be described as an armada of vast proportions was fast approaching. According to information from the Earth 's observation posts in deep space the trajectory and size of the alien fleet could only suggest only thing, a massive surprise attack. Space command was not taking chances with a such a large number of vessels of unknown origin and was leaving nothing to chance.

Why would anyone be coming with a large fleet of they were friendly and only wanted to say, "hi". If the admiralty at space command had read the situation wrong, it was still better to err on the side of caution than to allow a massive incursion into Earth's space by unknown beings.