"Commander Yilin, why haven't you arranged for us to fight alongside you? We will help defend the line as well. Eliminating these heretics is why we came."
Lena, the Inquisitor leading the Sisters of Battle, saw that Commander Yilin of the Astra Militarum had yet to assign her and the other Sisters of Battle to the fighting. Unable to contain her impatience, she spoke up to make her presence known.
Although the Sisters of Battle and the Inquisition were not under Commander Yilin's command, Lena and her Sisters had long wanted to join the battle, eradicate the heretics invading the warship, and vent the Emperor's wrath upon them.
However, Lena did not act on her own impulses. She understood clearly that the Imperium's fleet sent to crusade against the heretics had already failed. What they needed to consider now was how to preserve the Imperium's remaining forces. If the situation truly reached a crisis point, sacrificing everyone to destroy these heretics would also be the right course of action.
Moreover, Lena herself lacked the ability to command large-scale formations. If she led her Sisters into battle recklessly now, they might create a gap in the Imperial soldiers' defensive line and give those damned heretics an opening to break through.
Not only would they fail to eliminate the attacking heretics on a large scale, they might instead cause even more Imperial soldiers to die for nothing. Lena could not accept that outcome. She could only seek out Commander Yilin and have him assign a defensive sector to her and her battle sisters, allowing them to kill more heretics who had betrayed the Emperor.
"Inquisitor Lena, are you willing to join the battle now?" Yilin, who had been assigning combat tasks, looked at Lena with delight upon hearing her words.
Yilin had