On the other side of the call, Reno frowned in distress as he turned and looked at all the rankers that were behind him.
It would only take three minutes for me to get here and he had to make a decision as quickly as possible. If they tried to evacuate all the citizens, then it would take at least five minutes and there would still be some citizens in the city when I got there. It was either save all the rankers or save some rankers and some citizens.
Personally, I would have chosen the rankers. it wasn't that I didn't want to save everyone, but in a situation like this, I couldn't save everyone and the best course of action would be to save those that could fight. If the weak are going to survive, then they need the strong, it would be stupid to allow the strong to die to save the weak.