The station can withstand prolonged bombardment and is a powerful defensive tool, but no ships are close enough to exploit that strength. The enemy fleet fought elsewhere in separate actions instead of gathering around the position. Concentrating mobile forces with the fortified base would have created a much harder combined problem for the attacker. The fictional setting illustrates how fortifications gain much of their operational value from coordination with a fielded force.
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A powerful station cannot compensate for a dispersed defending fleet
The campaign's strong orbital station would have been much harder to reduce if the defending fleet had concentrated around it.