If that's true, my squadron should be able to take them on without the assistance of your orbital defenses.

We're going to need those batteries to cover our orbital defenses whatever happens.

Massive as the orbital defenses' firepower was, they had serious weaknesses.

The orbital defenses were intact, so clearly no outside enemy had attacked the system.

That being the case, can we afford not to assume they have control of the orbital defenses, as well?

They figured out how to get through our orbital defenses!

Nor did he understand why they'd bothered with orbital defenses at all.

But that would leave a massive force of our ships to get through, all concentrated on the orbital defenses.

All they'd have to do is crack a gap in the orbital defenses.

Your orbital defenses will not be able to hold out long.