Tannius and his squad didn't even really have time to push forward, the combat going on all around them was too intense for any kind of major push. The jedi was beginning to lose his nerve at the carnage around him. Blaster bolts flew overhead or impacted the wall they were hiding behind, troopers from other squads went down, his comm was full of voices calling for reinforcements. The situation seemed hopeless, and apparently the commander thought so. The order to retreat was given, but Tannius made no call for a fall back instead the battle seemingly getting to him freezing him up. 

It was one of his troopers who shook him out of it, quite literally. "What are your orders, sir?" The voice asked, panic had filled the troopers voice. Not only was their commander freezing up, but it was a jedi no less. "Fighting retreat, try to buy as much time as we can." Tannius said, he tried to hide the fear behind thoughts of the code, and for the most part it worked he seemed steady to the other troopers. He pointed out the next batch of cover behind some wreckage and the group moved. Stopping every few feet to give the encroaching cultists a barrage of heavy fire. 

When they made it to their second set of cover, a cultist charged. Crimson saber in his hand he made a beeline for Tannius as fast as the force would carry him, so fast that Tannius barely had time to put up a defense yellow saber, and red crossed making a shower of sparks. "I'm going to take your head, republic slave." The cultist said, a grin appearing on his face. Tannius said nothing instead going on the defensive as the cultist hit him with a flurry of quick strikes. "You have your orders, keep falling back!" Tannius shouted, over the din of his own combat. This was only the second time he had fought a sith, and it showed he was slowly losing ground. The cultist got cocky though, and started inflicting shallow wounds with the edge of his saber first on Tannius' cheek, then upon his knuckle. On his next Shiim strike, the jedi saw his opening and took it. He went for Tannius' eye, the jedi deflected the strike, and went in with a lunge impaling the cultist through the stomach, and finally a finishing blow to the neck severing the head from his shoulders. 

The jedi stood there for a moment. Shaking from both adrenaline, and fear. Not able to move, until the blaster bolts started impacting around him. He kicked it into high gear and joined his squad. When they finally got clear of the combat the group gave a sigh of relief. With the exception of Tannius. The jedi collapsed to his knees exhausted and threw up the events finally hitting him. This elicited a few nervous laughs from the soldiers in the squad. When the jedi's stomach was empty he gave the order to move to the boneyard, his thoughts swimming with everything that just happened.