"Big sis! Big sis Artoria! We won! We finally drove off that damn Tiger!"
While a group of guerrilla members mocked the ZAFT Army prisoners, Cagalli suddenly jumped down from a jeep carrying a shoulder-fired missile launcher, her face brimming with excitement and joy.
Ever since learning that Dawn Company had secretly developed new MS units and warships for the Earth Alliance on the Heliopolis colony satellite, she had returned to Orb and had a huge argument with her father. She believed that her father's wrong decision had been the source of that tragedy.
It was precisely because Orb's executives had violated their solemnly declared principle of neutrality that the ZAFT Army invasion and the colony satellite's collapse had led to such terrible consequences.
To draw a line between herself and her father, the girl, barely sixteen or seventeen years old, had run away from home in a fit of anger and come to North Africa to join the local Resistance Organization—the Desert Dawn guerrillas.
It was also here that she met Artoria, who had just descended from space.
Since they looked about the same age and both possessed fiercely competitive natures, pride, and a sense of responsibility, they hit it off at first sight and soon became close friends who could talk about anything.
Because Artoria possessed greater military and leadership talent, having led poorly supplied guerrillas through the desert against the well-equipped ZAFT Army and won numerous battles, Cagalli admired her like an older sister.
She also hoped that one day, like Saber, she could become a great leader capable of leading her people to resist invaders even in desperate circumstances. Then she would return to Orb, launch a rebellion, and drive her father—who had violated the principle of neutrality—from office.
It had to be said, Cagalli's thoughts