This is why Soldat's lessons for newcomers focused very heavily on breaking holds, hitting really painful points and then bolting, and knowing how to fall without getting hurt and how to roll back up to their feet quickly. Anyone who actually showed up ought to know all those things, by now, unless they really tried not to learn anything... or didn't show up. There's always people who didn't show up.

"I think the non-combatants should be down in Helix Station," they say. "If we can convince them. The rest of us know how to handle that sort of thing. But anyone who isn't really... a fighter should be safe. Especially if we fail. Then they won't die, too, maybe." It's just convincing them. Ardyn, Misty, Hope, Ingram... Weaver for sure. Pudding, if they can convince her.