[ Realization dawns with a slow, sinking feeling. Nate is right. The situation is similar, sure--limited numbers, limited resources, an overwhelming enemy. Some of these people have been here for years, living this way. But that doesn't make them fighters.
Even Riverview was populated by people more familiar with combat than not. It had an official Perimeter Guard, volunteer forces, weapons from the capital world. It was just military enough, just informal enough that he never questioned the continuity between his war and the defense of the city.
But he's not in Riverview any more. There's no actual boot camp here. No classes, no real training facilities. Even the Resistance, as slapdash as it is, had simulators and a blaster range.
What they are is a few people who know how to hold a gun, a few people who know how to use magic, and a lot of civilians.
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Even Riverview was populated by people more familiar with combat than not. It had an official Perimeter Guard, volunteer forces, weapons from the capital world. It was just military enough, just informal enough that he never questioned the continuity between his war and the defense of the city.
But he's not in Riverview any more. There's no actual boot camp here. No classes, no real training facilities. Even the Resistance, as slapdash as it is, had simulators and a blaster range.
What they are is a few people who know how to hold a gun, a few people who know how to use magic, and a lot of civilians.
They're starting from scratch. ]
Fuck.