August replays Daitrij's recording,

`A Holo recording gets projected into the middle of the conference room on Heras One. A turquoise haired woman appears. The quality of the recording is superb, it is as if the former Herald cheated death and stands amid the other members of the Elysium Cloud once again. There is a friendly smile before she starts to speak.`

`"Planet: Hergudr Two, File: Fourteen, Security Level: Elysian Cloud. This is Herald Daitrij Sakharov on route to Heras. Hergudr Two is on the verge of a war that could result in the death of hundreds of thousands of people. I devised a plan to prevent this. A deception of some sort. I don't need the approval of the Cloud for this endeavor but for the sake of transparency I share the plan beforehand."`

`The Planet Hergudr-2 pops up right next to Daitrij. "You all should be familiar with the fact that Hergudr One and Two are in the claws of an aggressive plant species that grows fast and aggressively. With the help of Jeonia Sawall we constructed the Deplanter Vehicles. They are already in action on Hergudr One, allowing the populace to live in relative peace and start to rebuild without the fear of being overrun by the plants again. Spaceships above the planet make sure that no pockets of plants start to grow unknowingly. But that is in my Hergudr One files, for you all to read."`

`"I wanted to do the same on Hergudr Two. The situation there is different tho. I only found two pockets of civilization that lasted. Two cities. One peaceful and reasonable, one aggressive and ready to destroy the other. There had been armed conflict before, but both cities are devoting all their resources to protect themselves from the plants. The moment we drop the Deplanters and this won't be needed anymore, there will be war."`

`Daitrij zooms closer to the cities on the map of Hergudr Two. She draws a line between the two cities. "See. That is the obvious vector. That is the line we open. And as soon as that is done, I am expecting an immediate attack. The plan is to trap their forces send space ships down to force them to surrender, without a single shot fired. We save them and then the military vehicles will be overgrown by the plants until we recover them. That.." She points at the middle of said line. "..is the spot where we will trap them. I am counting on the plants to grow fast enough. We could support that by dropping living plants in those areas. To further slow them down we will drop Iron Hedgehogs. Anti air systems from Heras will protect the second city, as aircraft won't be stopped by plants." `

`The Planet vanishes and the Deplanters appear next to Daitrij. "Those are great machines. And we rigged them. They transmit their GPS signal, so both cities can see where the Deplanters are and how much area has been cleared. But we have ways to manipulate that signal. So the cleared path is smaller than it appears for them. And the Deplanters are manned by Paragon or EP security forces, depending on if the EP supports the idea. Those will stand ready to make sure the path is blocked by plants, on both sides. That is the plan. I am en route to Heras to take the Deplanters and Anti Air systems with me, as they should be finishing production soon."`

`"May the flame in your hearts always guide your ways."`