There are some blue dreamshapers. Actually it looks like there are dreamshapers of every caste except red.

Of fucking course.

This is reported up to the chain of command.

They kinda figured, given how many dreamshapers. They're probably going to kill them all but it's not urgent.

You can easily find Amentans of every caste that would jump at the opportunity to become a dreamshaper for the sake of their kids.

But this catastrophe of a country likely used non-volunteers.

Well, it's not urgent. How is the fight going?

Hard to tell if you don't know much about modern Amentan military tactics.

Well, if the people that know don't want to tell them that is fine. How is the magical side of things going?

It doesn't seem like Calado has many dreamshapers actively doing stuff but plenty of the dimensions are still dangerous and spilling things everywhere.

As long the portals are not changing. The ones to dangerous dimensions can be sealed inside bubbles of condensed earth, stone, vines, energy or whatever is best suited. With some ingenuity they can make it so things spill inside other pocket dimensions.

Some portals are changing but not most of them.

Yeah, the point is sealing off portals from inactive dreamshapers. They still deal with the other portal activity as needed too.

Tani, Zofin and Migah have been working on something that they now release (warning the military first).

A giant tree emerges from the ground and towering over most buildings (which isn't that impressive given how few were still standing). It releases waves of silvery spores.

They're harmless to non-magical Amentans, stormguards, firecastes and whoever is on their side. But when they touch a magical living being they cause severe weakness and force them awake.

Then they can wake some dreamshapers. 

(A general in the Calado military offers to help Anitam establish control over the eastern half of the country, away from where the dreamshard landed, in exchange for her and her troops not getting killed after the war. Anitam is fine with that. She's very helpful.)

Good. In that case they can repeat that strategy. Opening tiny portals to other dimensions and letting the spores in. Or sending spores through a dimension's edge so it vanishes and then reappears somewhere else. They can do this until they get diminished returns at turning enemy dreamshapers inactive.

(The part of the country farthest from the chaos is occupied. The residents are told to go home and stay home, which they hurriedly do. The occupying forces arrest some politicians.)

And they work on the other part of the country. They seal off portals and kill monsters. They progressively shift to provide more help to civilians. If circumstances permit, they even imprison dreamshapers inside zero-g bubbles where they can't hurt themselves and fall asleep.

Generally, they make things less on fire. Sometimes literally so.

Anitami generals ask the Calado general about turning the rest of the army. She says she could maybe do that but it'd be dangerous under the circumstances, and difficult, and wants to know what she'd get out of it. The Anitami government is willing to agree to restrain executions over the whole fiasco to politicians and active dreamshapers. That's good enough. She gets in touch with old friends.

And eventually things are calm enough that they contact the Anitami government about their captured dreamshapers and rescued civilians.

Civilians are allowed to go back home, if their homes weren't in the affected areas. If not, if it's convenient for the dreamshapers to house them that'd be great. 

Anitam is quickly setting up courts to try the entire Calador Senate and anyone else who was involved in the rockets shot at the shuttle, can Felix do forensics for those courts.

The alien dreamshapers will absolutely house displaced civilians. Trevor's dimension is still not entirely safe because of the temperamental storm, but they can move sanctuaries or floating islands to regular Amenta space and use those as shelter. They can provide food, healing and other resources.

Felix provides forensics as requested.

Anitam shoots about half the Senate and a few dozen other people. There's a major city that's about half uninhabitable and weird magical effects for a hundred miles around but things are pretty much over.

Isel gets permission to extend her dimension over to Calado so Anitami reds not attached to a military unit can help with cleanup.

She writes the Calador reds. Her Oahkar isn't terrible.

Hi! I'm Isel, I'm Anitam's reds policy person and I'm going to consider you my jurisdiction too even though I don't think we're planning to occupy Calado permanently. What do you guys know about recent events?

everything was suddenly awful??

One of those portals spat out a monster that killed half the people in my neighborhood.

Some of the military reds haven't come back

There's bodies EVERYWHERE and my mother got beat up for being late to some but we're stretched so thin

Yeah, okay. So the aliens have a thing called the dreamshard which gives people the power to make pocket dimensions. Anitam used this to give ourselves more space, and we were vetting people from other countries to be allowed to do the same thing. You have to vet people because pocket dimensions are weird and dangerous and can make monsters and plagues and armies of people and stuff. We weren't approving anyone from Calado because your government was kind of terrible.

 

While the aliens were taking the dreamshard to a moon for testing some people in Calado shot their shuttle down and claimed the dreamshard. Then, as far as we can tell, there was a ton of internal fighting over the dreamshard, and lots of people made themselves or their allies into dreamshapers. Then the aliens attacked to get the dreamshard back, and Anitam invaded because Calado shot down our shuttle and was about to be insanely dangerous. There was a war. We won. We're occupying the country right now. We're probably going to be auctioning credits and we're probably not going to respect previously given permissions but I might be able to do for you what I did for the Anitami reds which was get you your own dimension where you can do population control however you want. (If I can't get that I'll pay a red credit for anyone who's nineteen and has a permission that isn't honored).

I'll look into what's up with the military reds. Can you use Anitami red help getting to all the bodies? What else do you need?

Help would maybe be good.

I'm 19 but it was unclear if I had a permission, he kept waffling on it and making me do stuff

Our doctors both died

How do we get a dimension? What makes it so that happens?

What if we're not 19 yet but we had a permission and not money

How long are you occupying

I heard your reds do something that isn't bowing, what means 'please don't hit me' in Anitami?