INTO THE DARKNESS
 
As I will later describe in more detail, there was something about the droids
that triggered the full awareness of the Swarm. Maybe we touched something
that was never supposed to be awakened. Whatever was the reason, we
started to realise we had walked right into the worst kind of pandemonium
imaginable, and things went from bad to worse with every step we took.
 
Screams drowned the confused orders as field sergeant of the Alpha squad
tried to calm his men and avert the creeping panic caused by the assaulting
Swarm. To make matters worse, contact with the entire of Bravo squad was
lost (perhaps they stood their ground to ward off a surprise attack from
the rear), and now it was only the five members of the Alpha squad pushing
further into the citadel.

To give my men a moment of respite and a chance to regroup, I ordered them
to establish a defensive perimeter that would serve as a fallback point for
further forward progress.

The secondary objective was to thin the enemy ranks as much as possible.
I did not feel comfortable with dividing my men in an unknown territory,
but it seemed like the only viable strategy at the moment.
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