Design time

Our Fleet is assembled. We are ready. You are ready. We can mount a decisive attack on the homeworld. We can win. That is indisputable.

There are some who say we could not hold the earth, that collective humanity would mount a crusade to regain their sacred lands, and that we could not sustain our alliance.

I am not one of those. I have fought beside billions of you and ordered billions more. There is no opponent you can not overcome. I would fight with you against the stars, if the stars became our enemy.

I am ordering the fleet to hold position at 2 weeks out. I want to be absolutely clear that I do not do what I do out of any doubt of your abilities.

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Omen is not happy about this, but he's letting me hold the fleet for now. This isn't a fight we can win with ships and armor. There is nothing here to conquer and my soldiers deserve better than to see this place.

Two weeks should be enough.