He actually sighed in relief as the core group stayed focused, though several of his kids where clearly not amused at finding their 'invincible' father presenting them evidence to the contrary. "Good question Kammy. For the moment, we wait. My sixty four ground units could kill Barid's Blades by the platoons, but we have no information on his elites, nor his lieutenants. And the planar barriers are turning my fleet into glorified paperweights, and though there will be uses for them, they will not be providing orbital fire support like what we enjoyed in the last war."<br/><br/>He brought up the time line that Xyra had been shown, along with the highlighted entries to ensure they were focused. "As the entries show, we are getting reinforcements at increasing intervals, with more and more viable units cropping up, but the actual intervals are unknown. That means the time game plays to us, but only to a point. At some point, probably once I feel comfortable assigning units to everyone and still keeping the mobile reserve that won the last war, Barid will stop waiting for me to come to him, and will come to me. His action will be based on total units, not just group units.<br/><br/>One of the pieces he got from the downed units in the second confirmed contact was an IFF receiver. That stands for Identify Friend/Foe. Now, he can't confuse our units, and Nadri is vouching ahead for the majority of the death squads, but what he is doing is using it to listen to units dropping in, still using the old codes. The second thing we do is tell them to update to the new codes, but he is still getting an accurate ping on what, where, and how many for the first couple hours, and there isn't much I can currently do to counter that.<br/><br/>So mostly, this meeting is to let everyone know to not jump the blade and invade a plane of his, and then end up being shocked when I leave you out to dry. But what I do need is to figure out where the gods are, what directions they are leaning, and can we start CAREFULLY prying allies from him. Every god on his side is going to be a massive hurdle for a while, and unlike the last war, I plan to spend most of this one coordinating this fight, and sending out you all, yes, that includes the kids, to do the ground work. I might take some missions, but for the most part my job is to get both my beyonder and spark active again."