Greater Sinhala
"Your Greatness, the Dravidians are at their last whim, they are dieing off, emperor, before our mighty arms!" Kaja Whie excalimed loudly, the emperor stood at his window. The town of Anuradhapura had grown excedingly large in the last century, sprouting not outwards, but vertically. In this iron age, the masons have been able to help the engineers in designing a palace for the Emperor that will rise, along a hill, to fifteen stories! This huge megolith will support temples for schools, and forums for culture.
Away from the peaceful island of Ceylon is the the battle grounds of western India. The Dravidians had been pushed out of their ancestral capital, a moral breaker to say the least. However, the remaining Dravidian forces have gathered at a city just north of the capital that is still within Dravidian hands. And there, in Mumbai, they have fortified. These walls were not to be broken easily, and so the top scientists of the day have begun on a project to build a rock thrower that would devastate anything it came into contact with. Until then, the army will surround the city and starve them.
This is the proposed siege weapon. It will be made into a UU.
And this is the Palace upon which will be supported by the hill.
ORDERS
Lay siege to the city, though don't attack, just defend from them getting out.
Begin developing plans for the construction of a siege weapon called a Semira.
Increase economy
Begin Wonder: Imperial Palace of Ceylon (++Education, +culture)