The Fall of Falcon Scott (2)

The situation was both clear and grim. Sunny already knew some of the things that Jet told them, but some were a complete surprise.

The First Army was planning to withdraw from the Antarctic Center, taking its entire population with them. The previous plan of hunkering down in a number of fortified siege capitals for gradual evacuation had been abandoned, or rather postponed — it was going to be enacted eventually, but not before everyone was safely relocated to Eastern Antarctica.

Eastern Antarctica was doing much better than the central region of the Quadrant for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was much larger and more densely populated than the Center, with better terrain. That was why the First Army contingent sent there was several times more powerful.