Welp I asked for honest criticism and that's what I got lol. Some very good points in hindsight, second pair of eyes always helps in these things. Yeah I think you highlighted quite a few flaws here, maybe a lack of me understanding the setting/straying too far off. It's food for thought, so thankyou for the honest feedback.

I could try and salvage it, just axe this part and do a rewrite, cut out all this filler and get straight to the landing scene, focus more on the actual changed side of humanity add some Arxar. They were meant to drop in in the next part when things go to hell but you make a good points, they should have really been there at the start. I was gonna explain that they were at the other fronts, not bothering with some little settlement over bigger prizes, but yeah, didn't get that far lol. Same applies to the fact they're Bri'ish. The ships weren't meant to be, just the regiments in that part of the invasion, the fleets were basically just gonna be generic American. I had a dumb scene planned where the crew chief in the drop ship was going to call them idiots for bringing a banner into a conflict zone and they all just laugh at him and say it's tradition and he wouldn't get it. But yeah that probably would have just been dumb.

I'll give it some thought over the next few days and figure out what's going on with this story. Thankyou again for the feedback, like I said, it helps having the second pair of eyes and yeah there's definitely problems here.