While the situation of the radicals in the Spiritual World worsened, a few months passed quickly between the crisis of the rebels and the preparations for the beginning of the ice age and the arrival of the aliens.
The cooperation between the world's strongest powers was getting better and better, with each side more easily developing their new ways of using the knowledge from the alien technologies.
After Minos acted to make the most of his commitment to the elves, this tribe and others who acted with him realized the benefits of sharing their discoveries.
Though each was still a bit suspicious of the other and thought they needed to protect some of their advances, many now saw the exchange of information as beneficial.
By sharing information and insights into how other peoples saw the same things they did, different tribes made new discoveries about things they hadn't noticed before, but which could affect them significantly.