By the time the history and tactics session ended, Ning understood why the academy taught the two subjects together.
The next class was Cyber Operations.
A different interface replaced the battlefield map, this one filled with communication structures and encoded transmission patterns used by Mekharan forces.
Lorna remained their instructor for the lesson, though several portions of the material were clearly being supplied through academy systems.
"Mekharan communication differs from standard human military traffic because they do not always separate machine communication from personal communication in the way we do," she explained. "A Mekharan sending data through what appears to be a vehicle control network may actually be speaking directly to another individual."
Ning studied the transmission examples as they appeared.
