Return from Ceres

[cloningblues]

[Back on Star Rose, Asagi watches the fleet returning from the battle of Ceres through a window as it passes by the station. It was a victory where humanity managed to hold the line against the Wulgaru, and his decisive action in taking command over Team Rabbits when Izuru wasn't available had a part in that. And yet...]

Many ships are missing...

How many casualties did we suffer in this battle alone? And in this whole conflict?

Comments

[majestic_keiki]

Yeah...We won, but I'm not sure we can keep it up if every battle is like this.

[cloningblues]

We have very powerful units and good training, and so do most other people in Unity Group. But not everyone is so lucky.

It's not just the Global Defense Force. UN Spacy, ESUN army, anti-BETA TSF units... All of them suffer such casualties when participating in battles of this size.

[majestic_keiki]

Right and while everyone is doing their best to keep up, we can only do so for so long...And even if we win in the end, thousands or millions will have died along the way if it keeps going like this.

[herodrawing]

Is there something more we can do? It feels like we're hogging all the good stuff for ourselves.

[cloningblues]

It's not hogging. Someone has to pilot the AHSMBs.

We're fighting for survival. Everyone is. The best we can do is perform the missions given to us, as good as we can.

[majestic_keiki]

And regardless, others chose us as the ones to use them, we aren't hogging things. Somebody else concluded that we were the people most suited to using them.

We're just doing our duty like everyone else.

[herodrawing]

That's true, but it still feels that way. Those capital ships we saw around Ceres were supposed to be really strong, but they blew up like it was nothing.

[majestic_keiki]

Yes, and this was just one group of alien invaders.

We'll just have to keep fighting to avoid it repeating.

[cloningblues]

If we weren't caught in an ambush, this could've gone better...

It won't happen next time.