hontou ni sou omou?

Lunamaria Hawke: Orb Attacks Again. Archangel et al arrive again. Lots of fighting. Impulse manages to dodge Freedom’s attack and later destroys Abyss. My Zaku Warrior gets totalled by missiles from the Orb Murasames and I get knocked out. This sucks.

Zyl: For a moment, I genuinely feared for her life but looks like Lunamaria’s been spared by Sunrise for now. In other news, Freedom totals Saviour. The Minerva is seriously damaged but also seriously damages the Orb flagship, Takemikazuchi which is then finished off by Sword Silhouette Impulse.

I think Shinn is too angry now but as and when he finally wises up, he’s going to have some serious issues arising from killing Todaka who was a benefactor to him - the Orb officer brought Shinn to safety after his family was killed and then got him the recommendation to migrate to PLANT.

Todaka’s deliberate blunder of bringing the Takemikazuchi (name trivia, relation to Kagutsuchi) forward without the protection of screening ships was a strategic coup on his part. Without Takemikazuchi, the Orb carrier-borne assets (M1 Astrays and Murasames) then either have to land with the EA carrier or Archangel. But given the situation, most will probably opt for the latter, strengthening Orb’s vessel of hope. The destruction of most of the Orb fleet will also make it easier for Orb to refuse further EA requests for military assistance against ZAFT and may even serve as a pretext to withdraw from the EA treaty. But most importantly, it makes clear to Cagalli that she must return to Orb to take back her authority and put her country back on the right path.