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You decide to <span class="mu-s">support a lesser signal</span>. While not exactly well versed in the “politics” of these strange entities, you think it'd be best to encourage some healthy competition. After all, <span class="mu-s">Eight by Six Degrees</span> might be the strongest Oon and relatively peaceful now, but once it conquers all of its brethren it will likely start seeking new ways to spread its signal. It already tried with the Cruiser of yours it defeated.
Similar to bacteria, Baalathi, and other simple amoebic creatures, this Oon can spread itself infinitely from even a single individual. The best solution then is to choke it out, like a probiotic crowding and increasing competition for basic resources to “bad” bacteria. You find another signal, this one called <span class="mu-s">Four and Five-Fourths</span>, who seems to have an innate resistance to Eight By Six's frequency. While not as powerful or able to expand, this other Oon signal might be helpful to you. You charge the crystals you have with this sound and, without much instruction or other aide, you fling it via kinetic sling towards its home systems. Four and Five-Fourths thanks you, telling you it will do its best to halt Eight by Six's dominant growth, but it's impossible to tell if it really means this out of some kind of gratitude or by its own simple evolutionary pressure...
In the meantime, your standard colonists have been feeding the Threemind valuable data. The first few weeks they were expecting immediate rescue, but as the computer on board shut down from a lack of backup power and “glitched”, they found themselves truly alone and stranded. The denial phase is over as they begin to take their surroundings in. While they were using the last of the ship's power on frivolities, they are now finding new methods.
“Look, your Majesty, they are using solar energy collectors and directing them towards heating water for bathing and cleaning. How interesting! The more forward thinking are even looking for native plants to use as root stock before splicing them with a Jaxtian crop for increased survivability in the soil.”
<span class="mu-b">”Interesting. How long do you think they could last?”</span>
“Jaxtians, Swall, and Vetuckers all survived as primitive cultures before our level of technology. They will learn. The Vetuckers aboard are especially suited to it, given they can eat the native grasses without much difficulty. Protien might be an issue for the other species, given the lack of safe insects to consume for Jaxtians and that they are far away from any ocean for the Swall citizens.”
<span class="mu-b">”...Do they know? That I've trapped them there.”</span>
“They do not <span class="mu-i">know</span>, but the smart ones aboard already suspect it. They know this isn't normal. It won't spoil the data, as the practical concerns of survival are greater to them then stubbornly refusing to go along with the experiment out of some resentment at being used.”
<span class="mu-b">”I just hope this is worth it.”</span>
