The intelligence briefing began with Caleb's operational summary.
Casualty counts from the bridge battle: final tallies, injury status, recovery timeline. Supply line analysis: three corridors currently open, one compromised following a secondary raid the week before, restoration estimate forty-eight hours. Current coalition security status: Harsen and Ironwood had increased their inner-layer staffing following the bridge engagement; Rochard had requested the full buffer-layer scheduling draft and was implementing it; Vael was running a modified outer-layer protocol with local adjustments. Numbers, supply lines, schedules — the routine of it, the necessary maintenance of a war that did not stop for the significant things, that required you to keep track of the small things so the small th
