Katamari Damacy Small Metapuzzle

by Noah Snyder, Julian West, and the metapuzzle committee

Round 1 answers:

FOREIGN DISASTER RELIEF
PRIMORDIAL SOUP
NINA PERSSON
MULUGETA WENDIMU
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM
CUL DE SAC
DIVERGED

Each of these answers begins and ends with the same "letter", if we consider MU as the letter μ. These seven letters are:

f   p   n   μ   m   c   d

Each of these is the symbol for one of the SI small order-of-magnitude prefixes. Index into the answer by the negative power of ten the prefix corresponds to to spell out the answer, from smallest to largest:

ffemto10-15foreigndisasteRreliefR
ppico10-12primordialsOupO
nnano10-9ninapersSonS
μmicro10-6mulugEtawendimuE
mmilli10-3moBilesuitgundamB
ccenti10-2cUldesacU
ddeci10-1DivergedD

The answer is ROSEBUD.