As an actual certified English language turbo nerd, these paragraphs make me want to vomit. You can trim down all of this into 3, maybe 2 sentences and have it not only be far more readable, but also communicate the point better because you don't have to parse what this word vomit is trying to say. Something like:
"It's going to take awhile for the cavalry to arrive, and by then it'll be too late for a lot of people. We might might be small in the grand scheme of things, but I don't think that matters to the people we're saving. We're here now, and that's what matters."
Just something that (I think) carries the ideas of the passage while also not being bloated as hell. And that's something I came up with at the spur of the moment, I cannot believe these people write for hours at a time, edit it, and this is the dreck that comes out.
Edit: Who am I kidding, editing? Any decent editor would have had an aneurysm from staring at the mess of words that is this game.