The time had come for the human intruders to break down the current impasse.
Yet how they should go about solving the problem was a delicate matter.
They had managed to make a lot of scattered observations, but the bigger picture still remained woefully incomplete.
The data that they had gathered up to this point only clarified a few points, but brought up a lot of new ones as well.
It was very easy for commanders to get lost in this mixed sea of clarity and ignorance.
Every incomplete pattern hinted at a greater conclusion, yet these hints never represented the absolute truth.
Too many variables remained obscured behind the fog of war for any of them to figure out the true strategy employed by their adversaries.
If they had more time, then the combined fleet could have spent more time on conducting reconnaissance and performing detailed analysis on all of the gathered data.
Unfortunately, time was very much against their side.
