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Hu explains that the fleet cannot save Pallas-Tycho on Trejo's deadline without trading its modified, coordinated attack for long-term industrial survival.
Admiral Gloria Hu joins Camina Drummer and coalition officials to assess Trejo's eighteen-hour ultimatum. The combined fleet has been kept scattered to deny the Heart of the Tempest a rich concentrated target, and it cannot redeploy to Pallas-Tycho within the deadline. Only three-quarters of its ships have finished resupplying with torpedoes modified from the first battle's intelligence.
Hu defines the trade precisely. Sacrificing Pallas-Tycho will set back fleet construction and fortification by decades, but waiting to concentrate and fully arm the existing force increases its chance of a decisive short-term blow. Attempting immediate defense protects the industrial future only by weakening the battle that will determine whether the union retains any future at all. Her analysis supports Drummer's evacuation and refusal to engage prematurely.
An adult female admiral with a grim, alert face and forward-leaning posture at a command console, wearing a formal Earth-Mars military uniform.
Hu is the coalition analyst who translates the Pallas ultimatum into the concrete choice between construction capacity and a prepared killing strike.