The empire is in its death throes. The best thing to do is stay out of its way as best as possible until it has expired.
Empires have a habit of killing off a lot of people during their grand finale.
That's a lesson I fortunately learned in the first few days of basic training and it has stuck with me all these years.
Minding my own business... "here comes the sh*t, better step aside." Step aside. Whooossshhhh!!! sound of sh*t passing by. "Okay, there goes the sh*t, back to what I was doing."
The lesson is universal enough that it can be applied on a micro or macro scale...
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
