Movements too fast for ordinary people to see could only be made out in footage captured by high-speed cameras. The video recording of Black Bolt and Maximus had been broken down into millions of high-resolution images and laid out on the holographic command table in the general staff headquarters. The file was transmitted to many senior officers in the chain of command and staff officers in the command department. Master Hamir, serving as an adviser to both the Psionic Academy and Kamar-Taj, sat in one of the staff department's chairs, holding a data slate as he watched the frame-by-frame recording of Black Bolt and Maximus's battle.
Master Hamir could not understand the professional military issues the officers discussed, such as "the fuel cost-effectiveness of armored personnel carriers in low-oxygen, high-altitude environments," "the airdrop efficiency of heavy armored units in low-oxygen, high-altitude environments," "the firepower cost-effectiveness of tube artillery in oxygen-free environments," or even "emergency airtightness measures for light infantry combat suits in low-oxygen, low-pressure environments."
This was a field beyond Master Hamir's knowledge. Modern warfare was fundamentally the art of statistics and economics. Everything that had to be done before ammunition, fuel, mechanical parts, maintenance personnel, medicine, and other supplies could be delivered to the Moon and the battlefield, then poured onto the enemy's heads—even coordinating the takeoff, landing, and dispatch of Assault Transports and Shuttlecraft fleets—was enough to drive anyone mad. All prewar preparations were essentially a test of the limits of logistical management, economic endurance, and more. These tasks determined whether the Emperor could hammer the Inhumans with concentrated firepower. Every barrage Attilan's Inhumans suffered cost more than a hundred times as much as an equivalent strike on Earth.
Although Master Hamir had managed Kamar-Taj's daily affairs and finances, the figures involved in the Attilan campaign were simply