The war had not been going on for long. Less than an hour later, it had turned one-sided, one side advancing and crushing everything, and the other defending with all its might to prolong the agony, and the hope that remained the only thing available.
Because they knew what they were up against, the soldiers of the Empire knew that it was impossible for the central command to go all in for a peripheral defense node like theirs. They knew that reinforcements would most probably not come.
