The Mining Spider is a giant four-legged platform used by Kaiser Vlad to extract the Staff of Qa-Len from a glacier in the northern Tundran Territories. In the final mission, it is surrounded by a shield and boasts laser batteries, which are relatively weak against your Battlestation alone, but do much damage overtime; the Battlestation must be protected, as it is the only unit that can destroy it. To deactivate the impenetrable shields, you must destroy the three generators nearby. When you suceed in destroying the spider, Vlad will exclaim that he has retrieved the Staff and will try to destroy the Alliance of Nations with it. However, when his escape copter is shot down, he and Kommandant Ubel will escape in a mini-spider down to the bottom of the glacier as the Staff activates. In the