Swamped

Ash has some harebrained scheme, engineering an attack on the base that he can fend off singlehandedly to prove his superiority as an officer and justify more aggressive action against the marshguards. Unfortunately, the allies he recruited to feign the assault have proven to be more aggressive and unpredictable than he anticipated. He's probably in damage control mode, trying to keep the rest of the base in the dark while his more "trustworthy" knights clean up the problem so that he can still get his moment of glory out of it.