Two days of preparations later, I watched—as an astral projection—over the preparations for the scout-filled plane to take off.
This location for construction and takeoffs of planes was built far away from Hive Supremo, closer to the sea. This way, planes could travel shorter to reach the Ashida continent… when runways are completed there, too.
The somewhat bird-like machine was standing on top of a runway dozens of kilometres long, and thousands of bees were roaming around it, checking the machine's details. A few dozen glowing moths that signified other astral projections were there, too—they had to be scouts that had already settled inside and now were curiously watching what was going on outside of their passenger seats.
A mecha was operating some levers in front of it that were too large for a bee, and another was putting extra canisters of fuel at the back of the plane and attaching them with valves to the main fuel tank.
