The nominations and the discussions about any tweaks that they would make to the plan went on for the next two days, leaving everyone stressed out and ready to just nuke the planet and hope that it didn't do anything too extreme to the Anomaly.
They all understood that the chances that would actually work out in their favour were extremely small, about the same as that of the Myceloids coming by to invite them for tea and crumpets. But it had crossed their minds.
Finally, they were ready to start sending the patrol teams out in the area to make sure that nothing strange was wandering in the newly grown woods and that the Myceloids in the area weren't going to be an issue.
There was so much life in the woods that it was hard to tell it apart with the scanners. The trees weren't even really trees; they were some sort of fern, and the genetic similarities to the Myceloids were throwing off the biological scanners.