Draiss glared at the lava pool, wondering what she was planning as he cast cosmic catastrophe on the lava, sealing her in several dozen feet of solid, now frozen lava, before looking up at the transmission. He sighed, and requested the shadow stalkers to please inform him when they dispatch units to a new location, if only so he can be ready to deal with shit getting real. He tapped into the observer drones still stationed around Kammy's citadel, which had been completed during the months since his last real check in, and began ordering the remaining standby shadow stalkers into position.<br/><br/>The spider siege tanks were ready for field testing, and were planted on top of the citadel, in depressions specifically for them. The gorilla siege tanks were portalled into various openings in the wall, just big enough to squeeze the unit in, and have it go into lock down mode, which would stabilize the platform and nearly double its effective range. Line warriors were placed inside the citadel, along the outer walls, where firing slits allowed them to snipe their opponents without being vulnerable to a counter attack. That gave Kammy about two thousand troops in well fortified and entrenched locations, turning the citadel into a fortress in the middle of a killing field, which the siege units began to show with admirable gusto. He also realized that without more reinforcements, the troops were not going to be enough for a protracted siege, so he recommended the activation of five thousand drone line warriors, which would be dispatched to assist the shadow stalker line warriors. Not as smart or adaptable as the AI controlled shadow stalkers, but they would be in groups of six with two shadow stalkers providing command functions, and would be as dangerous as a full squad of shadow stalkers, if not more so, the drones being much more durable than the AI controlled ones.<br/><br/><em>Reinforcements have already deployed, more are inbound as the shadow stalkers pitch more artificial intelligences into platforms. You have ten spider siege tanks on top of the citadel, along with one hundred siege gorillas and two thousand line warriors. Hover tanks, banshees, air walkers and phoenix bombers will be dispatched as squads are scrambled and enter portal locations. Hold the line, my sword and fire, hold the line. Shit, bit busy here too, kaythanxbye.</em><br/><br/>He called for the only complete station to begin powering up, and prepare for portal transferred shots, allowing it to hit a target while still being in orbit around the forge plane. He then calmly reached into the ground, and cast shatter and earthquake, turning the frozen ground into a myriad of razor edged facets of frozen rock, and then shaking it violently. He doubted it would do actual damage to Svala, but it would get her to stop playing around under him.