Here, even though it's the center of the Mars Free Channel, holding personnel, resources, and productivity desperately needed by the bandit army, Fatty understands that it's all just an empty promise. Once the Suss Fleet regains focus, and approaches Mars, even the strongest bandit army will be trapped like fish in a barrel.
To stay here and get battered is something Master Fatty would never do—eat and run is his never-wavering belief. From the start, he never planned to trap himself in Mars Free Port.
