"I'll make the arrangements."
Ningdi Lingling nodded as she spoke.
"Good. Then let me wish you all victory in battle. I hope we can make humanity's first battle a resounding success!"
Xi Yan offered a satisfied word of encouragement, then was the first to end the call.
----------Divider fungus, currently building the central district----------
Amat Eiro II.
The capital of the Plant People civilization.
The Plant People's technology tree consisted almost entirely of biotechnology. Their cities and buildings were made from organisms native to this Gaia Planet.
The Plant People had mastered highly sophisticated biotechnology. Over centuries of development, they had used this planet's organisms to build a fairly advanced pre-FTL civilization.
However, limitations imposed by their species traits had prevented them from developing any respectable aerospace technology.
This vibrant city, green everywhere one looked, was the capital of the Plant People. Its name did not matter. No one would care about a civilization that was about to be destroyed.
The city formed a perfect ring, with a circular clearing over ten thousand meters in diameter at its center. A towering tree rose from the ground there, reaching straight into the clouds.
It was the oldest tree on the planet, said to have been growing for thousands of years. The Plant People had designated it their civilization's sacred tree.
The Plant People's emperor and a host of ministers arrived at the foot of the sacred tree and reverently paid homage to it, honoring the protection it had given their people for so many years.
After completing the elaborate rites of worship, the emperor did not leave immediately. Instead, he stared blankly at the sky and sat down on the steps formed from plants, his tentacles drooping limply onto the ground.
"How is the fighting at the front?"
Gazing