Chapter 18 - An Unpleasant Revelation
Going into the Palisades one might think we have a pretty good hold on the area. From the Divide it is a clear run into a strongly fortified AFS establishment. It makes people feel save. The Divide is anything but, even Foreas Base, for all its strengths, is constantly under attack. Comparatively, it would appear, the Bane do not care as much about this area. That thought has been wiped away now.
The Bane are concentrated here, they have a very specific purpose and they have achieved an unprecedented hold on a part of this land. No doubt they plan to soon expand that hold.
Skive Base is more disturbing than anything I have previously seen. They have the numbers, that I’ve always known. Up until now I didn’t fully understand just how lopsided things truly were. Patrols spread out around the base in at least a 100 meter radius. Thick patrols. The kind of patrols you don’t get away from.
Running is not an option. They have patrols packed so tightly any attempt to escape is an invitation to attract more attention. The only way to survive is to fight, and that is hardly a guaranteed win. These things haunt me.
It is one thing to know your enemy is stronger and has greater numbers than you, it is an entirely different thing to see this first hand, knowing it is only a portion of the truth. I have an entirely different perspective on things now, and it isn’t particularly pleasant.
I killed many of them but it didn’t even seem to matter. Each one I killed just brought three more to replace him. I think I always believed, being the “good guys” in this war that we had the upper hand somehow. We weren’t the instigators so in some cosmic way we had to win. But that just isn’t the reality of the situation. Our being “right” isn’t enough, and I don’t know of anything that is.
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