Kael POV
He told himself it was surveillance.
Knowing what your assets were doing was basic command sense. You tracked your fighters in the field. You tracked your resources in the depot. You tracked your Base Architect from the command post window because she was the most tactically significant variable in your current situation, and it was important to know her patterns, her pace, her limitations.
That was what he told himself on day one.
On day two, he stopped explaining it.
She worked like someone who had been waiting their whole life for a task big enough. That was the only way he could put it, and even that wasn't quite right. It wasn't hunger; she didn't attack the ground the way ambitious people did, with noise and ego and the need to be seen doing it. She was just relentless. Quiet and relentless. She'd open her panel at first light, run her calculations in the margin of time it took most people to fully wake up, and then she'd build.
