"Praelatus meus, foreign substance detected... unknown substance, lethal... Fungi, estimated destruction of current biological life: 99.3812031849283381048129182937%"
"I see. Turn the shielding to Hardlight, keep those spores out of our defensive position. Begin exfiltration of all biological forces outside the shielding, get the assembly walker moving to destroy that unknown fungi. Move the Evocatus that is engaging the Equestrians to fire low power energy projector beams to cauterise the infection immediately. Code: Cauterise, Stabilise, Extract 9s"
"Yes, Praelatus Meus"

Colony 257

There is a flash of the shield around the psionic amplifier, the colour changing from blue to red. This 'hardlight shield' prevents anything from moving through it, and the Aerial Synths quickly zoom into the air, boarding the Aquilifer as it enters the planet. The Triarian inside the Psionic Amplifer changes it from being used as a mind control beacon, and begins to use it to focus his pyrokinetic abilities on as many of the incoming seeds and their produce as possible, as well as using it to induce kinetic energy to force the strange airborne substance away from Collective forces and civilian population centers... to do so, he directs as much of it as possible towards the hardlight shield, as all life surrounding it is already dead... with the exception of the Equiis pact forces, whom he transmits a Psionic message to. The message was simple. "Run". The Triarii who had been working on something at the entrance quickly begin to reverse all the work they had done
Dropships deploying organic forces, except true synth types who are assumed to be immune, quickly return, and organic forces from the planet are quickly extracted... The carrier passes over the downed habitation walker, and a massive reverse gravity funnel comes out of it and the Habitat walker and it's associated parts are sucked up into the cargo hold of the Aquilifer carrier. The Assembly walker fires it's Dark Energy caster at the 'Seeds' as they land, obliterating entire area's of the landscape, and one of the Evocatus ships flies low, it's energy projectors on low power, burning the 'seeds' as they land, irradiating the area approximately a mile around each shot. The mech forces and true synths change their focus to the 'seeds', but large numbers of the smaller ones are taken off planet as quickly as possible anyway. The smaller ships moved into the planet and begin to fire at the 'seeds' with their plasma weaponry.

The Phase tanks stop their attacks, and dropships instead came down, each with a mech soldier, offering CPZ, Military, Equiis pact and anyone else who is unfortunately enough to find themselves on the planet a lift into orbit. They inform all natives that they can return to their planet as soon as the threat is eliminated... though it's doubtful anyone will take the offer of the faction that just tried to murder everyone, it is worth a try. The returning to the planet is partly a lie. The Collective doesn't estimate high chances of success with their tactic of removing the seeds, it's a delaying tactic to evacuate as much as they can from the planet.