You can force push a few thousand at a time, not really a significant number.
You dash through the horde of biting, stinging insects. Xerth clears the tineiest sliver of a path with his sonic gun but on the flanks the sabres prove in effectual against such numbers. Marcus, slower than the others, gets the worst of it- he is Wounded by the time you get to the door.
You dive through the door and it closes behind you, and you are in the small room of N. This appears to be some sort of control room with a clear window overlooking the hangar bay.
The arthropods are eating through door and window and you are trapped in here.