YAMMU had folded space within its body, giving it immense resilience to harm, and it could somehow fly with tiny wings. MNEVIS was primarily composed of controlled gravitational fields, had an indestructible face-plate, and nearly trampled 3 Pharaohs before they brought it down. NUN was an acidic ooze that spawned a range of smaller monsters, and wiped out the U.N. North Atlantic Fleet. TEFNUT didn't even have a body to speak of, just being a swirling storm of hallucinogenic mist, but was still killed by [REDACTED]. And then SEBEG shows up, a warped reflection of the Pharaoh units that emerged from mirrors, and could redirect damage to those it reflected. Plus, let's not forget that excavated "object" that SEBEG was after, which suppressed just about all combustion and electricity in a 3-mile radius.
All of them had powers that our models can't even begin to explain. All of them had "technology" or "biology" or "whatever-the-fuck" that we can't possibly replicate. They can do things with their AT Fields that we can't imagine. But none of them really seemed to have come prepared for a fight. At first, they seem more curious or confused by us than anything else. Then, they seem to get angry, and the battle begins. And they don't seem to learn from one another, or coordinate their efforts.
NUN is the closest to an exception so far. It poked and prodded at us, striking at targets that were no threat to it, and then helped to free TEFNUT. But NUN didn't endanger itself to help TEFNUT, it was just another probing attack. If the two of them had worked together, it is probable that one or both would have survived, and we would have lost several Pharaoh units, if not the whole war.
And that is the problem I'm facing now: how do we avoid losing? We can't make effective tactical plans and simulations and projections when the next enemy we face is a living computer virus, or requires the pilots to do a synchronized dance routine to defeat it. We can train them to try and neutralize the enemy's AT Fields, but that puts them in danger, too. And through it all, the key to Theoi and their strangeness, the AT Field, is still poorly understood. We've known about it for... well, I guess since [REDACTED], and it was only in the past [REDACTED] years that we've been able to actually observe it, to test our models against it. And they keep coming up short.
I have to crack it. I have to find something we can use. I can't lose anyone else to this bullshit.