1002 Koleska Lament

Once the furor about Max's declared intention to fight on his own began to die down, many other species took the opportunity to declare the same plan.

"It is the opinion of the Koleska Empire that a decentralized approach, with communication between forces, would be optimal for the successful defence of the threatened planets.

If our force is not sufficient for the task, we will choose to call on allies for support, but routing all decisions through a central bureaucracy will only delay the response times and create infighting and resentment among those sent to the most brutal of battlefields.

We will not shy away from our duty. We will fight. But we will do it because we choose to, and there will be none to take responsibility for our successes and failures but our own Commanders." The head of the Koleska delegation, a Defence Minister that Max recalled meeting once before, announced.