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The ressurected ecology of Va'laara:
When the Liir returned to their ravaged home planet, they came home to a mess. As the only planet to have escaped the scourge of the plague- the liir on the homeworld had performed their own rebellion- it wasn't a glassed over rock. It was, however and ecological ruin. The Suul'Ka had boiled the seas and bombed the surface, and mined in the scars their bombs had made. The machines were modifed where possible to destroy the traces of their oppressors civilization on the homeworld- diggers cleaned out mines carved out of the surface of the planed, giant ships towed to land the oceanic extraxtors poisoning the all-important sea. Once the rough work had been done, and the planet cleansed of the presence of the enemy, the bioweavers of the Liir sang the song of creation. The refugees from the homeworld had passed on as many tales as they could, of the old, flourishing life that swam and floated in the deep. So they rebuilt the ecosystem, recreating genomes and releasing entire food chains into the wild. Where information was lacking, the weavers hunted down fossils in the deep and listened to the ecosystem. Corals were lovingly nutured, the vast leviathan jellies drifted again in the deep ocean.
It was not a fast process. Even after a thousand years, the Liir had restored but a fraction of their world. The shallow reefs spanning the continental shelf where they made their home had begun to recover, and were showing the first signs of true vibrance. The depths had only just begun to be colonized, with bands swimming down to recolonize the starved and empty deep and reclaim the ruins of their old harvesting colonies. But the Liir had learned from their war. The landsuits that had enabled them to walk the surface long ago were refined, and the genesingers walked the land with the few engineers in their number, setting up new flows of food and construction material using the technology of their extinct colonizers.The small wildlife that formed the base of the food chain was brought back, and when the fleet returned, their resources and minds were put to the task. The reunification of the Liir did slow the rebuilding of the planet, but it was brief. Though the Watchers were still gone, finishing what the whole had started, the survivors were restoring their home for them to come to.
By the end of it all, the world was green again. While some continents still bore the scars of the orbital bombs, and the frilled trees would never grow again over the scars of the old mines and toppled mountains, the sea was vibrant. The coral had recovered, though the boil-scars and drone marks remained. The aquaculture farms returned, with the fish only looking no different from before. The deep was silent as ever, but the bands of Liir, now armed with weaponry from their oppressors, reported that the titanic lorgewhales and smolsquid were swarming as ever in the dark, politely ignoring the hunters as they sought out luminous globe plants- regrown but a short time ago.
Were it not for the genetic memory and the song of the Liir, Va'laara would still be scorched and broken, its seas full of carnivorous algae blooms competing for nutrition. But the Liir loved their home, and so they healed it.
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