“You think she’ll make it?” “She should. Unless something else goes wrong.” Tsaami’s tone was sour. “Caine: this is a battlefield. Something else alw… - Charles E. Gannon

We need no technological assistance. Hkh'Rkh capabilities and engineering is unsurpassed.
Yaargraukh managed to keep his tongue from writing out in a spasm of grim hilarity. "I have heard others say the same thing."
"And your response to them?"
"That their empty rhetoric is delusional lunacy spoken as truth.

I guess that, living in a sanitized world, you’ve forgotten this basic lesson: if you want to stay free or stay alive, never play by your opponent’s rules. Particularly when your opponent is more powerful than you are. Do the unexpected. Turn on your pursuer. Attack the attacker.

No matter which images of battle and carnage came to haunt him, no matter which specific terror rose up through them, the lessons they rehearsed were always the same:
There’s no such thing as certainty.
Control is an illusion.
Death and destruction descend the moment you forget to watch for them.
That was what two years of intermittent war had taught him. And once you learned those lessons, you didn’t just remember them: you lived them, moment to moment.