Only a short span of time had passed, but planet Lanhu had changed hands already. The cities in its depths had turned into ruins, while the fields that used to glint with light for growing crops had fallen into darkness.
Life within the planet-wide ocean had suddenly been upended. Carcasses floated within while craters dotted its floor. All over the planet, whitish-skinned humanoids swam around to collect those dead bodies belonging to the evolvers who had lost in the struggle to protect their home.
Beyond those scattered activities, only a few places had turned into true hubs of activity, and each one had pits of the same kind as the one where Jack had trained before. And each one used to have bubbles that collapsed with the destruction wrought by the invaders.
Though broken at the top, the pits remained mostly intact deeper inside, and there, the invaders who had succeeded in their conquest were busying themselves.
