A commander's view should be mostly field. For some time it was mostly furniture: boards that held nothing, kept open out of habit, standing between the eye and the ground it was meant to command. This day the empty ones were folded away, and the space they held was handed back to the battlefield. I have ordered the same of tents and of baggage, and it is the same order.
The compact HUD, accepted as the default, was brought together with the Mere's entry framing, and the scope of that joining was recorded plainly so that nobody could later claim it covered more. One road fault was found in that joining. When the camera was sent up and brought back with the paging keys, it returned not to the Mere's own frame but to the empty midpoint halfway, a place with no data in it at all. It now returns to the Mere.
That is a thing seen on the road and written as seen. The road held under my weight; what it does under a whole army I leave to the army, and I do not sign for it as though I had watched.