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[Star Fox] How the hell did a group of four mercenaries practically take down the entire Venomian army?
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A combination of extremely advanced equipment (Arwings and Wolfen are beyond cutting edge space superiority fighters) and high-speed, precision attacks, diving deep into enemy formations before pulling out just as quickly.

The battles to push the Venomian forces out of Cornerian space, for instance, had the team fly *right up to full-sized warships* practically undetected, causing so much chaos that the Venomian fleet and half their air wings had to reposition deal with the threat, allowing the Cornerian forces to push the enemy back.

That pattern basically repeated itself over and over again the entire campaign. Attack a base, a supply line, whatever. Force the enemy to respond or risk having their forces divided and destroyed, and escape before the enemy can launch a counterattack.

The problem for Venom was they were trying to fight the absolute best while using poorly-trained troops, shoddy robotics, and equipment secretly cobbled together in just a few years while living in some of the worse environments the Lylat system has to offer. Their initial success against the Cornerians had a lot more to do with complacency than anything. Aside from one incident with a lone Aparoid, Corneria had been a peaceful, fat, lazy civilization for as long as anyone could remember. The worst they ever had to deal with was organized pirates.

It's not that Venom didn't make an attempt. They were fielding more and more one-off prototypes designed by whatever eccentrics they could find. In that case, the problem was that the operators of those weapons typically were their eccentric designers, being as they were the only ones who knew how to operate those weapons. And credit to Venom on that, those prototypes actually fared pretty well, all things considered. Unfortunately for them, when your technology is matched, it comes down to skill, and some mad scientist you plucked out of a prison usually can't compete against the most talented living pilots in the system.

Supposedly, they even almost caught the Great Fox in an ambush in Sector Z. Nobody really knows if it happened, or if it did, why professionals like Star Fox would cut through such an unstable region of space. If they did, it was probably to launch a surprise attack, and some intelligent Venomian general recognized it. Probably was executed for failing to stop them.

At any rate, it just goes to show that a military force made up of amateurs, armed with crappy weapons, will easily fall apart when faced with even a tiny force of professionals utilizing the best weaponry available. That's just as true in space as it was when the bow was new.