Once Yeseti entered the passage, she clearly began to realize the hopelessness of her situation. Leon was waiting for her on the opposite side of the passage, his missiles and torpedoes ready to rain down on her forces. Jacob brought the Eagle and most of the rest of his ships up on the other side, ready to block her if she moved in their direction. If they stayed trapped there things would only get worse, since Jacob could reinforce his ships much quicker than she could get reinforcements from her home territory—if she could even manage to get any message to them at all. Of course, that assumed Jacob would allow them to sit there when he could just as easily start sending torpedoes in along the curving twists of the passage, bowling them through the Oduran formation like preprogrammed, guided wrecking balls until the larger ships of her task force were dead. Then he could sweep the passage clean and leave them all destroyed or captured. While Yeseti's ships milled about inside the passage, fumbling for some kind of order, Jacob considered opening with a few such shots, just to emphasize the strength of his position.
