That was something I couldn't find the answer for. [She'd asked, but the most she'd gotten were shrugs, mumbled answers about hoping for the best, before she'd decided to focus on the more factual parts of what the fuck was going on.]

Either they really do hope the Transports can defeat an entire armed force, when none of them are trained to deal with this situation together. [Her people know how to work as a unit, fighting alongside each other, when it comes to it, and that makes such a difference.] Maybe they just want to do as much damage to the United Earth as they can, it's not as though Transports stay dead, after all.

[It's clear, from her tone, that she doesn't think they don't stay dead is an acceptable reason to throw people into a battlefield.]