[quote=WilsonTurner]
Soldiers run out, see their friends and the people they're supposed to protect, and be like "What?"With your kind of logic, a zombie apocalypse would never work because people would take a shotgun to someone's face rather than try and save them. But people are rarely that smart, even with smart people. 'Course, they're magical, so I suppose they know everything, right? Who cares about the story of the BCU escaping the station with their own lives, after the station falling to an unknown parasite. It's a game, the point is to be able to translate anything instantly and win all the battles, after all. Wait... that's not quite right...
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I think that when they were set upon, the security forces would certainly fight back and likely effectively once they realised what was going on (morale would be effected in sustained combat, but then he blew up the station anyway so that doesn't matter), but it would likely be a scenario where the L'Er got a surprise first strike on them as you say, I doubt they just ran out and pew pewed civilians on sight 

But then, he blew up the entire station anyway, so whether then security succeeded or not is irrelevant.

What isn't irrelevant is whether the people of the EU don't care where they and their families are in the universe, nor care where anything about their nation, even the capital, is situated.