Breed, continue on current projects.
As the tiniest glimpses of light start making it to the Sea Floor, the Caerri become 100, and the biorails pulse with completion!
...The Peretics are annoyed at being treated like tools in the proposal and make vague mumbles about unions and speciescism. At home there is a hunt to find more wildlife
the Crustaceans have been rediscovered! Making sure to grab a female this time, the Perectics force it back and begin breeding, for whatever purpose!
First lair keeps improving the defenses of the great tunnel. Soon it will be all but inpenritable by a attack from second lair.
Third Lair start's its own project. The Kriblits notice that the old way of each Kriblit making fire, gathering materials, and making the cement is inefficient. With the mass production of fire underway, the old way is not even needed anymore. So a new way is found. Each Kriblit will be set to one part of the job. One Kriblit will gather materials needed. One Kriblit will sort the materials. One Kriblit will gather the food needed to fuel the fire. One Kriblit will watch over fire production. One Kriblit will use the fire to bind the materials together. And one Kriblit will use the cement to bind the tunnels.
Although, now with six Kriblits doing what used to be the job of one, each Kriblit can specialize in their own area of work, increasing productivity past what six Kriblits could do alone.
The first Kriblit factory is born. Soon the production increasing ideas will spread to all the lairs.
Third Lair is slowed by its lack of hex-divisible population, but the efficiency boost balances it out for now, and soon Third Lair is fully reinforced for now, as the fortification continues.
While a bit extreme, there is a use for the Peretics. They shall be used as "attack dumbies", perhaps even slightly harming(bruises) other perks, to encourage the Perks to attack. They shall be rewarded for when they attack with the command. The guards will pull off the Perks as soon as possible, to prevent harm from coming. If the Peretics are ok with this, the plan shall be put into action.
The other Peretics will be tested to see their resistance to heat. If it is stronger than that of the Floatune, they shall be used to build that of the construction that will be close to the heat vent. With the "ok" from the Peretics, of course.
The Floatune not busying themselves with the Perks will harvest the Kelp needed to build our next construction, the Heat Vent Shield(or whatever it is).
Enough kelp has now been gathered to build the Current Deflector, and the higher colony can now commence operation sans headaches.
The Perks now understand "stay" and "
move you stubborn thing!".
Road construction continues, and research begins on a way to synthesize the acid.
A couple reseachers are horribly deadified by bad experiments, synthesis is getting nowhere.