[b]Planet L-1[/b]
[u]Near the City_____________________________[/u]
The walker regiment had already passed the crashed spaceship; a single general combat walker and a troop transport had been left there, searching the wreckage for anything. The Varren in orbit kept picking up messages, and while the TInkerers tried to decipher their meaning, there was no way of reference to ever establish a translator. They were, naturally, confused and frightened with everything; there was an extremely small chance of them meeting so many people at the same time, and they currently had no way to translate with the newest ones.

On the ground, the walker regiment was actually only slightly faster than men moving on foot. Each walker was heavily armored, as per their standards. While other races' walkers might be fast and powerful, these were slow, strong, and heavy. Take a fighter and crash into it from Mach 5; you'll just knock it off its feet for a moment, and maybe knock some stuff around. Both GCs stayed close to the remaining transport, and the railgun walkers had already taken position.

After 15 minutes of chasing [5 minutes after being sighted], they got really tired [and their buddies had yet to show up], and so they called in so help.

The Varren, in orbit and just now passing overhead, was watching the entire thing. They received permission from Command and from the ground team to fire a warning shot on the unknown entities who were currently [i]marching on their city.[/i]

About a hundred feet in front of the unknown entities, foreshadowed only by a momentary whistling sound, one of the very few giant trees scattered here and there abruptly exploded.

That is to say, a supersonic railgun shell came down from the heavens, broke through the canopy and hit the tree trunk a short distance from the bottom. The result was the shell continuing towards the ground, tearing the tree in half and completely demolishing the lower sections of the tree. Very, very slowly, the tree began falling on a perpendicular course, falling in a way that still left the path open to the nearby city, but still was a great warning:

You are much, much smaller than this tree.