I'd need to meet with my officers, and make sure they'd help back me. I'd have them help me explain the risks to the crew. If we still have enough willing to undertake the mission I'd lead it myself. While the planet isn't strategically important, the Ohm staging ground is. It's a threat to the entire area, and if we don't shut it down they'll just move onto the next planet.

There's also the fact those people are deserving of our protection, and that's a soldier's purpose. With a population that large we have to do something. Also even if their world isn't producing munitions, or weapons, it could one day. Abandoning them could also have repercussions with other worlds in the area who might be less willing to lend us aid as a result. That could hurt us just as much as the lose of crew members.

Neither of these situations are the sort of fight I'd prefer for us to be fighting. We don't have the ability to do these sort of straight up fights. It gives every advantage to the Ohm. We also don't always have the luxury of choice though.

As I said don't mistake my willingness to make personal sacrifice as callousness. There's no point in winning a war if there's nothing to go home to.