With the city leveled and the ground flattened it was time to get building. For this I just followed the instructions of the specialists, and those instructions were very precise. Like really precise, seemingly needlessly so. I doubt it's actually needless, they wouldn't waste time with the time crunch that we have, but I am really the only person we have capable of building structures like this so quickly and reliably.

My Paladins could pull it off, but not to this level of precision, or at least not nearly as quickly as I can. That being said, they were very helpful with the a lot of the grunt work, the parts that weren't so precise like the walls.

As for why such precision was needed, we were building siege weapons and other devices designed to protect our own people and prevent an enemy army from wreaking havoc while also sparing innocent civilians. The Balista specifically was capable of firing into a large crowd and only killing one person, or with a small change that can be done with little more than a thought by any plant manipulator can take out the entire group. From what I heard it would be more or less useless against any durable foe, as it sacrifices some power for control and accuracy, but it is no less impressive.

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There was also a rather large building designed to separate incoming civilians to let us examine them any way we could to make sure that they weren't enemy spies or soldiers here to cause some harm. It is an imperfect system, the enemy is aware of our abilities to read minds and has no doubt figured out a way around that, and no other method is nearly as effective. Still, it should root out many potential problems, and we are mostly relying on speed to hopefully prevent any serious attacks by the enemy. If they don't have time to prepare then they can't throw anything big at us.

And now everything is in place, well almost everything. We just need to open up the teleporter and welcome in the populations of as many cities as possible. I'm amazed that my people managed to convince so many civilians that this was a good idea, I guess news travels fast and no one wants to be caught up in a purge. Tomorrow will be a big day, and I'm excited, nervous, and terrified all at once.

I'm going to put some finishing touches on everything, see if there is anything I can do to help right now. I just can't sit still.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.