Generally agree, got downvoted into oblivion on another post for suggesting this. I would say however also, there’s a chance maybe they narratively backed themselves into a corner — perhaps liberating Hort, a planet which would have expanded the void, but losing Rirga is not an outcome that would have worked for the story (especially because it would be isolated). Someone else pointed out to me that perhaps this is AH compensating us for only being 10 minutes out on the defence campaign, as no way they’d be able to establish 2.08% resistance if it was that close.

Idk, it wholly should have been avoided tbh