Chapter 705: Ready
The simultaneous signs of intrusion on the perimeters of both Hometree and Hell's Gate Base forced the temporary alliance to rapidly push their cooperation to a deeper level.
Ryo's proposed response went straight to the core: a substantive integration of the surveillance and reaction capabilities of all three parties, rather than just superficial information sharing.
The plan was quickly finalized after emergency consultations.
At the Omaticaya's Land of Chants, an RDA engineering convoy drove into the designated perimeter area of the clan under the watchful eyes of the Na'vi warriors for the first time.
Under the guidance of the Seekers' technical personnel, they installed a series of sensors and cameras along critical paths and around Hometree.
The data streams from the surveillance network formed by these devices did not go directly into the RDA's systems. Instead, they were entirely routed to an independent relay station established locally by the Seekers.
Ryo's team was responsible for analyzing this data around the clock. The moment an anomaly was detected, early warning information would be sent simultaneously to the Na'vi guards and the RDA's designated contact points.
For the Na'vi, this granted them nighttime and round-the-clock surveillance capabilities that they could hardly build themselves. For the RDA, this extended their influence into the Na'vi core area in the form of technical assistance, without deploying troops directly.
Meanwhile, at Hell's Gate Base, the RDA allowed the Seekers' technical team to enter their outer defensive perimeter.
Building upon the existing alert system, they installed a batch of special detectors.
These detectors were optimized to target the minute spatial distortions and energy anomalies caused by cloaking fields, forming cross-verification with the RDA's traditional thermal and motion sensors.
Inside the base's security monitoring center, a new screen displaying the data from these special detectors was added.
To ensure the effective operation of these newly installed systems, a standing joint technical squad was subsequently established.
The squad consisted of RDA maintenance soldiers, Na'vi guides familiar with the terrain, and the Seekers' reconnaissance and equipment experts.
They conducted regular patrols and inspections of all newly deployed equipment, performing calibration and maintenance, and served as the first-response field verification force upon receiving high-risk alerts.
The existence of this squad normalized contact and cooperation among the personnel of all three parties at the practical operational level.
The implementation of this integrated plan did not encounter the massive resistance initially expected.
Worries concerning Hometree's safety overpowered the rejection of Sky People equipment, and the pragmatic faction among the Na'vi gained the upper hand.
On the RDA side, Colonel Quaritch valued the enhancement of his own base's security and the early perception capability of threats within Na'vi territory. The technical complexity being shouldered by the Seekers also reduced his misgivings.
Ryo did not directly control the armed forces of any party. However, through this meticulously designed integration framework, he positioned his own faction as the data nexus and key technical node of the entire joint defense system.
Unconsciously, the defenses of both the Na'vi and the RDA began to rely on the analytical judgments and equipment maintenance originating from the Trailblazer.
The joint technical squad served as an even more subtle bond, allowing the Seekers' personnel to operate frequently in the critical areas of both parties with a legitimate and necessary identity.
An invisible net was spreading across Pandora, and the hands weaving this net remained hidden inside the Trailblazer's command center.
At the same time, on the edges of the distant Predator homeworld star system, the work of the Eldar vanguard technical team had entered a critical stage.
Relying on the camouflaged, lurking Predator mothership as an observation platform, the team conducted comprehensive scans of the target planet for several consecutive days.
Deep-space observation arrays mapped out the planet's precise mass distribution, geological structural models, and gravitational field parameters.
Psychic probes penetrated the atmosphere, perceiving general energy congregation zones and signs of biological activity on the surface with minimal contact.
Data continuously flowed into complex psychic computational models.
The analysis revealed that the planet's surface had not developed highly dense urban civilizations. The settlements of its intelligent species were dispersed, and the energy signatures of their technological constructs were mostly associated with individual equipment or small-to-medium facilities. This aligned with the speculation regarding the social structure of a martial race.
After repeated verifications, the Farseer finally confirmed the optimal spatial anchor coordinates for initiating the esoteric rite.
This point was located in the hinterland of a vast mountain range in the planet's northern hemisphere. The region possessed a stable geological history, far away from known strong energy nodes. Moreover, the crustal structure beneath it contained a natural mass bulge, which could serve as an ideal leverage fulcrum for the initial force applied by the rite.
Having selected the coordinates, a small assault craft equipped with psychic camouflage detached from the mothership. Carrying the Farseer and three elite warriors, it silently glided toward the planet's atmosphere.
Their mission was to conduct on-site confirmation of the anchor region's geological stability and deploy the foundational wraithbone beacon used to establish the trans-dimensional link.
Using falling meteor debris as cover, the assault craft landed precisely near the predetermined coordinates.
This was a relatively open plateau of rocky terrain, surrounded by dark red, jagged mountain crags. The climate was dry and cold, and the atmosphere was thin.
The Farseer stepped out of the hatch. His psychic perception expanded outward like invisible ripples, meticulously probing every inch of rock and every wisp of airflow.
He confirmed that the flexibility of the spatial structure here met expectations and that geological activity was dormant. The two Pathfinders dispersed silently, establishing a security perimeter.
The Howling Banshee warrior retrieved a complex device composed of pure wraithbone and a crystal core from inside the assault craft.
The device was placed in the precise, pre-calculated position.
The Farseer operated it personally. He cut his fingertip, and a drop of blood shimmering with psychic light fell onto the device's core.
Immediately after, he hovered his hands over it, and a low, ancient Aeldari incantation echoed in the thin air.
The wraithbone patterns on the device lit up one by one. The core crystal began to pulsate at a specific frequency, emitting faint but extremely stable spatial harmonics.
An invisible ley line, perceptible only through specific psychic frequencies, rose from this spot, piercing through the atmosphere and establishing a connection with the mothership's main probe in orbit.
The spatial anchor was successfully established.
This meant that the construction blueprint for executing the trans-universal relocation of the target planet was finalized, and the most critical preliminary positioning and connection work was complete.
In the subsequent phase, Craftworld Ulthwe would be able to rely on this anchor's coordinates and all the transmitted planetary data to initiate the ancient esoteric rite, preparing for massive energy congregation and spatial structural intervention.
The Farseer sent a brief confirmation signal to the Techmarine remaining on the mothership and to Ryo far away on Pandora: Anchor point solidified. Foundational link established. Data package transmission complete. Awaiting next instructions.
With the mission accomplished, the squad did not linger. They quickly returned to the assault craft and evacuated this planet, which had not yet realized its fate had been sealed.
On Pandora, Ryo received two critical pieces of information almost simultaneously: one was the confirmation of the Na'vi and RDA agreeing to deepen defensive integration; the other was the report from the Eldar team stating that the establishment of the spatial anchor was complete.
He stood before the main console of the Trailblazer. The holographic star map in front of him displayed the situation of the new defensive network forming on Pandora, with him at its core, on one side. On the other side, it showed the coordinates of the Predator homeworld alongside a newly added Anchor Deployed status marker.
At both ends of the stars, two different forms of control were steadily advancing according to his will.
The chessboard of Pandora was tightening, and a harvest spanning across universes had also completed its initial preparations.