"They do," Azmuth agreed. "One reason why I have so many sensors in place is to monitor microorganic growth. I've tried listening with The Speech but it tends to get confused and muddled."

This particular artificial planet was to potentially act as a colony world, a sort of backup in case the Galvan home planet was destroyed. Again. Building a planet to precise specifications was a massive migraine he didn't want to have to rush through a second time.

"The planet's core mainframe is running smoothly at least. Next time I'll just start from building the processor myself instead of assigning that to someone else."