It was after a lengthy and exhausting debate that Grenlor, in no uncertain terms, assured High Command that the resistance would be run to ground within seven sidereal periods, local temporal cycle. To aid him in quelling this growing nuisance, he was given absolute dominion over the armada (including the dreadnaught class cruiser The All-Father) and assurance that all matters pertaining to the aggressive terraforming operation would fall under his purview. After all, how could he protect the great machines that would ensure his species’ survival on this new world if he had no knowledge of their deployment? Resistance saboteurs had already crippled three such automatons already Grenlor vowed that a fourth would not fall to the same fate.