[b] Seeder Ships above Colony 257[/b]

With sufficient seeds fired into the ground, and with decreasing gas-resistance on the ground, the two Seeder Ships in orbit move to finish colonization. Each one fires much larger seeds that, instead of moving straight down like the others, turn and begin moving to positions all across the world. 8 of these seeds were fired from each; these would each grow into terraforming stations. For repairing and colonization purposes, both of the Seeder Ships move to the opposite poles of the planet, move to face the ship's rear to aline with the pole, and then descend. Upon reaching the planet's surface, the Seeder Ships impact, sending debris and dust clouds rolling for thousands of miles, and very rapidly begin growing into the ground.

[b] In the surrounding space of Colony 257[/b]

With sudden holes of strangeness appearing in front of many Seeder Ships, they begin to reverse. While they carry a great deal of momentum, they are able to either beat the tractor beams strength [while the ships are beginning to be blasted as if with a shotgun by mines that were released], they use the speed they use to slingshot past the hole, or they simply fold out, to fold a distance away, sometimes closer to the CWP, sometimes farther, and sometimes right next a ship and annihilating it with mines or just ramming it.

But with the new tactic came reinforcements; several minutes after the 400-numbered task groups began to try and forcefully dark-warp them away, all ships simultaneously sent out another shockwave-pulse. Moments later, a thousand more Seeder Ships, easily being one of the biggest gatherings of Seeder Ships in Seeder Ship history, fold in simultaneously. However, these folded in randomly, so they are now scattered around the planet, inside hostile fleets, within the atmosphere and accelerating out, in front of an asteroid, or alone from the others, they are all distanced from each other, and they are all of random coordinate jumps in the general orbit from Colony 257. Each ship that is in orbit or in atmo immediately fires a dozen more seeds to the planet, the total amount of seeds on the planet very nearly doubling in a few minutes.

Then all the ships begin moving towards the EA fleets, and their warp areas. This time, however, some of them made it through, having been folded right in the middle of the fleets, or right where the warp point was. Others would take a couple hours to reach the points.

Losses: 3 ships failed at avoiding the dark-warp-hole-things from the 12 Seeders, and the 24 Minelayers.