[This raises a good point, and there's a pause as Allen weighs his options. He can't be two places at once, he has to make a choice.]

If Transports are being kidnapped, then what better way to gather as many as they can in one place?

And if the United Earth is behind this... I don't think they'd bother, creating a distraction. That would mean they're threatened by us enough to fear we might stop them otherwise. [And they clearly don't feel that way, considering they've proven they can bomb the place to pieces whenever they feel like it.]

I'll go to the party.