"Evacuation is well and all, however instead of simply leaving those poor civilians behind to be swallowed up by the Royalists have you considered taking those willing to remain behind aside and offering training in Partisan Warfare?" he asked calmly before pressing on.
"By training partisans to resist while the Council is away you will be able to keep the Royalist garrisons planetside in a constant state of harassment which makes it difficult for them to firmly entrench themselves into the population, you would be surprised by what a small organized group of citizens can do against a greater force of Troops, it would give them hope and the knowledge that they are not useless in the face of such terrifying power the enemy holds over them.." he stated with a small smile on his face.
"The People's Flag is deepest red. It shrouded oft our martyred dead."