The meeting soon came to an end.
Unfortunately, most of the attendees did not look satisfied when they exited.
It couldn't be helped.
People generally held meetings in order to bring everyone on the same page and agree on a plan to solve their problems.
The gathered leaders managed to fulfill the first condition easily enough, but they made much less progress on the second condition.
The Red Collective was not an endless wishing well. Its experts were predominantly newcomers to the field of cultivation science. How could they possibly have a mature set of solutions available that could readily address the novel set of challenges presented by the deathborn?
Nobody had ever fought against an enemy as vexing and confounding as this extragalactic incorporeal race, and past archives barely mentioned any cases that resembled this situation!
The problem became compounded by the fact that the entire combined fleet was effectively cut off from the rest of red humanity.
