Khao'khen assembled the specialized units on the morning after the four-column engagement, calling the specific team leaders to the market hall for the briefings that the new phase required while the main formation rested and the warband masters ran their post-engagement assessments.
The concept had been developing since the depression engagement confirmed what the new operational parameters produced, and the camp penetration had extended the concept into the space between the main body engagements, demonstrating that precision operations by small teams could reach inside the combined force's daily functioning in ways that large formations could not. What Khao'khen was building was the combination of both, operating simultaneously on multiple levels of the combined force's experience.
