General Ansa Sito moved in the night alongside Colonel Karl and Major Padded Mane. They are headed towards a secondary base in the countryside, driven out by the shapeshifting hunters.

The child gave Thorax a red fairy tale book. She opens the last page, revealing scribbles made about the enigma machine, written in Olenian. He hands it over to the commandos, who scrambled to send a message regarding their find.

Generalleutnant Erich Rhine was awarded the Cross in Silver for his action for safeguarding a national secret. He would later continue his repression against the resistance organization, eventually securing Hjortland and Cervus.

The four pegasi who had not returned from the perilous mission was posthumously given the Distinguished Flying Medal, their family were informed of their demise after its conclusion.

18 Equestrian special forces were killed in action during the ambush on Admiral Lysander convoy.
395 resistance members in Vaverfront was killed in action during the crackdown.
145 changeling soldiers were killed in action throughout the operation. Two were given the Iron Cross first class.

The dead has seen the end of war.
What is worth of their sacrifice, remains to be seen.

Author's Note

A tribute to the polish codebreakers, Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki; British commandos during Operation Crusader and subsequent mission, Captain David Stirling and Major Paddy Mayne; and the resistance member of the Grey Ranks alongside their compatriot during World War 2.

In hindsight, I should not have overestimated my ability to maintain quality with the little space that is 10 000 words. As to maintain a word count below the boundary, many aspects had to be cut out entirely or simplified to oblivion, such as Marion story, how the Grey State came to be, how the resistance was able to maintain a force of 2000 armed soldiers, the problem with underground communication between resistance cell, the problem with the Equestrian Fool's Gold gamble and subsequent solution, Equestrian high command lying to the resistance for their own national goal, the extent of the changeling supply issue, the state of the Equestrian military in the front, the inability to communicate properly with Equestria, the logistical titan of hurdle that is of imposing an emergency nation-wide lockdown, the resistance cutting off changeling communication and supply line, and most of the fighting chapters.