The cruiser can deploy large planetary defence bots and possibly several thousand smaller robotic units. That capacity amounts to a significant landing force. Avoiding their use may reflect a principled respect for organic life and independent thought, a motive distinct from simple incompetence. Against an opponent as numerous and destructive as the Magog, however, refusing to employ available force multipliers can become an operational failure.
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Planetary defence bots as neglected force multipliers
Thousands of deployable robots give the cruiser a major landing-force advantage, but restraint becomes dangerous when leaders refuse to adapt against an overwhelming enemy.