[b]Peace Talks[/b] "Nobody can evade us after an injection of nanobots." Said Dmitri "This will be easy, we activate the tracking mechanism, then we toy with her cells and organs. Take away some of her powers that way, make her sick, then send a task force of starships and troops to her location. Of course, she did just de-orbit the planet, so this could be a lot more complicated than we thought. With the seeders in our borders, we cannot commit more than three heavy cruisers and a battalion of marines. This will have to be a joint effort if we are to end the threat." The Empress shuddered, and turned to Dmitri. Just after opening her mouth, she decided that now was a bad time and returned to her normal position. She did, however, redirect half a million Abh warships each to Nova Sicily, Neu Grenze, Tsugi no bōken, Gelegenheid van de Eeuw, and Maria, along with putting in a request with the Dolphin military to move an equal number of ships to the same systems. [b]Seeder Threat[/b] 50 million warships have been redirected to the systems next to the Seeder border, and 10 million more are expected to arrive from Homefront Defense militias all around the Federation. Warp missiles have been fired at the enemy fleets and planets, some of them carrying dark energy payloads. The citizens of the planets have begun destroying anything they can get their hands on, indiscriminately detonating Federation constructions as fast as possible. Some people are attempting to get a hold on Seeder genetic material and send it back to the rest of the AIF, in an effort to find a way to kill the spores or create their own to counteract the terraforming process. With new probe images from the "hub" of the Seeder operations, the Federation has begun taking the Seeders more seriously and is taking action to get the upper hand. [b]Military Expansion/Research[/b] The AIF has begun producing starships at the highest rate it can, and is cloning crews for them. Of course, housing is also being constructed in the event that a defect with the encoding process occurs and a clone does not wish to become a member of the military. Research has also begun on more sophisticated shielding and point defense technologies, to defend against the Seeder mines, as they tend to overwhelm the point defense systems of AIF starships. The Abh in particular have taken an interest in point defense, and have begun producing a new ship class entirely dedicated to it. [b]Yuanon Project[/b] The first successful journey through Fath has been completed! Using an altered form of the warp drive specially designed for 2-dimensional operation, the ship has made it from the Milky Way to Draconian Front 15 in a singe day, outpacing even Quantum gates! What's more, no tracking devices could uncover its path due to it being in another universe during transit. The specs for the warp drive alteration, along with the locations of the different gateways (Known as Sords), have been sent to all ships using communication vessels. All transit within the Federation is planned to switch to this new system within a few months! [b]Embassy[/b] The AIF has accepted the offer, and has begun transport of diplomats. Construction workers have also been sent, to build the embassy to represent all the cultures of the Federation. Needless to say, the embassy is going to end up being really big as a result.