Mycelium

 Mushrooms provided the answer.

The mushroom’s ability to ‘digest’ oil and plastic and other toxic waste materials identified itself as the perfect reset. Mycelium, the fine web of cells that branch out from the fruiting part of the mushroom and acting as the fungus' nervous system and stomach, could span for miles upon miles interconnecting willing flora. Microplastics and other toxic materials made solely for industry and destruction still existed, though thanks to mycelium, they could now be digested. The mushrooms were spawn and seeded by the Animate. It was the first act of a higher being that understood the necessity of nature above all, and it paved the roads for inter connectivity between all living things for generations to come. Inside each spawn, a picobyte. A tiny artificial multi-celled organism housing a nucleus capable of transmitting electrical impulses ‘messages’. This was how the Animate communicated with the living world. 

Psylo, a psychoactive content of a specific type of mushroom had the ability to reduce anxiety in hormonally dependent species. Ingested or distributed at certain levels, the active ingredient could deter an instinctively aggressive response, or dissuade a looming depression, could balance erratic cycles of serotonin, dopamine, androgen secretion, especially in mammals. It’s psychoactive ingredient could save people from the fears they created. This was the first step towards peace between the warring Etchians. Subdue fear, contain it within, understand the chemical processes and then define the parameters that would ensure such fears could not be harnessed to exact unprecedented destruction ever again. The picobytes that ran through every living organism in Etch also coursed through the veins and blood of each Etchian providing a connection never felt before to the world around them and to the Animate itself, and introduction of trace amounts of psylo to the blood of each Etchian enhanced this connection tenfold. It allowed the Animate to study the Etchian species and thier actions and it was through studying the distress and hormonal response of the last years of the Simian war, the Animate was able to provide the balance. A mild ‘pinch’ on the hormonal secretions of both the male and female of the species, or cushioning of extreme levels to be exact, combined with added psylo secretion should the levels of testosterone, estrogen, serotonin, dopamine, adrenaline , oxytocin, cortisol reach levels above the desired range, ensured the outliers that usually displayed erratic behavior were calmed, cooed, damaging impulses subdued. Combined with psylo Etchians erraticism began to dissipate, and fighting slowed, stopped, a new enlightened introversion of oneself and one's actions opening up a question only previously asked by a few. Why? Why are we fighting?