Characters, place, pace, stakes - all brilliant!  Fantastic work!

I think the paragraphs could have been broken up a little bit further and the ending took two reads to make sure I understood but other than that, I love the actual elements of this story. The background of the Cascade, faction relations based on the deep lore, the theme working out to a well timed punchline, it was really fun, especially at the end.

Absolutely loved this!

Truthfully you span a fantastic narrative, great imagery, believable characters and dramatic events. In particular the end where Gujner settles in for the heroic sacrifice, then immediately bolts when he doesn't have to was golden.

I look forward to your future works :)

I like how the Dwarf was pragmatic, using the robots and not having one sided opinions about even other Dwarves.

Robot destroyers aren't used often and I enjoy how you wrote them in comparison to the other parts of the robot legions.