Moving this here as Emepror's Mercy is actually the first book in the Bastion Wars series and I am unsure what to do with it as that series does not have a page.
Last Stand: In Henry Zhou's The Emperor's Mercy, Imperial Guardsmen are surrounded by Chaos forces and are fighting on, despite dying of hunger and disease. Roth tells Celemine that they had no choice but to stay with them. The commander hears and instantly wants to fight a last charge: they can get them to their ship and hold off the enemy — and that way, they can be remembered. (They are. In fact, their eighteen minutes defense of the ship is immortalized in a mural on Terra.)
Moving this here as Emepror's Mercy is actually the first book in the Bastion Wars series and I am unsure what to do with it as that series does not have a page.