04. Dream Conditioning

Yoll jumped into action. His dreamscape was far more violent and dreary than the waking world, but still he was sluggish. Since the advent of dream conditioning, the best warriors trained as they slept. Only in the subconscious does one have the advantage of knowing his weaknesses better than the enemy ever can.

Yoll saw dream conditioning as the only way. The general was indecisive under stress and had only overcome his intinctual deficiency through superior strategy. But the coming Petroleum War was different, he knew that. The plans and strategies that had carried him through the first conflicts after the fall of New York were of no use now.

Yoll also had deep reserves about the Secret Plan. It was dangerous and desparate, and failure meant the end of not only his life, but the progress he'd made. Science itself was done with, for one. Knowledge wasn't wanted in the days of the Dominion.