[b]Cthaobbu, Ichnaea[/b]

Several Freighters started from the surface to complete the transfer of a big colony onto the Hive Ship in the orbit of Ichnaea. In addition to that a just finished cruiser began to lift of, within a smaller colony. Dozens of strong plasma engines were firing and lit up the surface in the middle of the night. This small fleet accelerated and quickly left the atmosphere until finally reaching the orbit, where the Hive and the rest of the colonization fleet was waiting. While some of the Freighters were being docked to the hive, six the Cruiser and around two dozen Destroyers moved into a formation around the hive, awaiting the start of the hive. 

34 minutes later the Hive powered up it's mighty engines and accelerated towards the ninth planet of the system, surrounded by Cruisers and Destroyers, and supported by a dozen Freighters. Each ship of that fleet, leaving the orbit, was filled to the brim with Akhenaton, to populate the ninth planet. The rest of the Akhenaton ships were scattered all around the system in small groups, always near a planet or moon, or on the way to a planet or moon. Both, the seventh and the ninth planet were always under surveillance of at least a Cruiser and a dozen Destroyers. Every lifeform that could be a threat to the colonization was merciless exterminated by those ships. Those guardships are also responsible to find suitable places to settle for the first colonies on the respective planets. 

Freighters were moving between Ichnaea and it's moons, transfering both material and 'people'. They would only stop that to hasten the loading of a Hive class ship or if there was a acute danger. Each Freighter could reach the planet from the moons in between ten minutes and one hour, depending on the moon used as the origin and the mass of the freight.

The colonies of Ichnaea never stoped working, while all that was happening. They started to construct two more Hive Ships and seven new Cruisers. With those ships the number of ships being constructed rose to two Hives, nine Cruisers, seven Destroyers and twelve Freighters. Millions of Akhenatons were crawling on the construction sites and Freighters were coming and going at a rapid speed, this all happens without a single trace of confusion or desorientation. They work like a single machine, constructing the ships in all directions from the origin, an efficiency and coordination no human group would ever be able to reach. But all these ships were only the begining of their construction efforts, many would follow after the few, that was the main rule of the Akhenaton.