Unfortunately, managing all that at once led to challenges, and it didn’t help that news had already spread through the masses that Greene’s interception fleet had engaged the main Maunhouser force and taken heavy losses before pulling back. It made everyone uneasy and distracted—some because they were rushing to get off the planet, others because they feared they never would.
I was inspecting the defense lines around the port, where the operation’s mobile headquarters would remain, when I realized half of the people around me weren’t helping.
“Hey!” I called. “Don’t leave those ammo crates stacked there! We’re going to need them over here.” I pointed to a position behind the main and secondary lines.
The handful of people with the grav carts quickly moved to correcting the error, and I
