"How could we do that? While the plan might be able to conserve our fleet strength to an extent, what about the common people living on those seven habitable planets around the star system?? What about them??" one officer cried out.
"We can't leave them here, can we?? Just like that—left to their own devices and their fate?? That is unfair to them, isn't it??"
"Indeed, while safeguarding our own strength is a must, what is the benefit of it when our own people—whom we are obliged to protect—are left undefended against an enemy that is hell-bent on destroying us and has no interest in talking at all?" another added.
"Like he said, there is no guarantee what they will do to the people living on the habitable worlds in their star system. What if something worse happens? What face would be left for us then in front of our own people?"
"To preserve our strength and live, we leave billions of people undefended, which results in the loss of their lives?"
