Blue Star, Upper Capital Base, an underground secret conference room.
A massive electronic screen occupied an entire wall, displaying a high-resolution global satellite map.
Azure oceans, green landmasses, and white clouds appeared in exquisite detail in the high-definition imagery. Lines of latitude and longitude overlaid the map, labeled with precise coordinates.
In the bottom-right corner, constantly updating streams of elevation, terrain, climate, and other data flickered across the screen.
Several uniformed operations personnel sat around a circular conference table, each with a translucent holographic control panel in front of them.
Under a technician's gesture controls, the map on the wall zoomed, rotated, and acquired annotations before finally locking onto an area of the Hidden Mist Village.
One of the operations personnel stood and circled an area on the large screen with a laser pointer. His voice was steady and professional:
"I recommend choosing this location as the main battlefield."
The laser's red dot landed on the northwestern part of an island-the largest in an archipelago.
"This island covers approximately ten thousand four hundred square kilometers.
It has volcanic terrain, with twenty-nine peaks over a thousand meters high. Peak A33 in the north reaches an elevation of one thousand three hundred twenty-four meters, providing good natural cover and elevated observation positions.
The island is far from densely populated areas."
He paused, slowly moving the laser dot across the map.
"As for why we chose this location..."
"From a strategic perspective, our ultimate goal is to unify the entire Ninja World and use its resources for development, not destroy it.
Fighting inside Kirigakure would devastate the village's infrastructure regardless of who won. The cost of postwar reconstruction would far exceed that of fighting in an uninhabited area."
"This island is a considerable distance from Kirigakure. The sea and air routes Uchiha Madara