Romelle... [Ah, quiznak, she's starting to get a bit weepy again, but she's quick to dab at her eyes with a handkerchief.] I thought... I had no idea there were survivors. How...?

[How? Sure, not every Altean had been in their solar system at that moment, but with Altea and every planet that had orbited their sun destroyed? And ten thousand years for Zarkon to hunt down stragglers? She thought...]