The Maquis looters were caught with their pants down - not expecting a fight but an easy wreck raid, half of them weren't ready for battle even with the arriving reinforcements.

Their backs against the wall when The Gallic Navy force arrived, their secret base about to be revealed because of the, as they now found out, unfortunate position of the Saulx wreck - The Maquis heroes had no other option. All they could do was to fight and lure the attacking force away from Chambery Base.

They succeesed in their last ditch effort to save Chambery, and drew the atackers all the way to a large graveyard of Kusari and Gallic ships. Location of their vital base remains a secret, but they paid a dear price for it - their ships. All got critically damaged, most didn't make it except for the manueverable escape pods that got lost inbetween the massive clouds of Debris they lured Gallic Navy into.

The Gallic Navy scored their first big victory under their new banner

Maquis Saved Chambery Base's location by Luring Navy away from it mid-fight
And didn't leave empty handed afterall - A Maquis captain apprehended an officer's safe aborad Saulx, and, perhaps being realistic - placed it in his escape pod at the first warning signs of The gallic Navy. Saulx Wreck will no doubt now be guarded and/or towed back to Gallic forces, but at least The Maquis didn't leave emtpy-handed.