ZAFT Army's initial probing attack had ended with them nearly being wiped out, plunging the entire situation in North Africa into intense instability.
Because all sorts of Resistance Organizations, including Blue Cosmos, learned that the famed "Desert Tiger" had suffered a major setback while hunting the Archangel.
Not only had he lost many subordinates, but he himself had nearly become a prisoner.
Thus, over the following days, attacks and assassinations sprang up one after another.
For a time, deafening explosions and continuous gunfire could often be heard on the streets of several major cities.
Although Coordinator soldiers possessed formidable physical quality and reflexes, even they could not withstand such frequent, indiscriminate attacks.
In just two or three days, dozens had died, while the wounded numbered in the hundreds.
Do not think that number was small!
You must know that P.L.A.N.T's entire Coordinator population was only a little over twenty million, and fewer than five hundred thousand of them had likely joined ZAFT.
The experienced MS pilots in particular were all exceedingly valuable.
Losing even two or three was enough to make a commander's heart ache.
To suppress this wave of attacks, Andrew Waltfield tore away his usual gentle facade and fully revealed the army's true nature as an instrument of violence.
Blockades!
Searches!
Arrests!
Anyone who dared resist was shot on the spot!
In just ten hours, more than ten thousand people were thrown into prison.
Many of them were innocent civilians caught up in the sweep.
Had such actions taken place in peacetime, they would undoubtedly have been repeatedly and fiercely condemned by the media. Regardless of one's status, they would certainly have been removed from office and investigated, perhaps even sent before a military court.
But this was wartime!
The greatest difference between wartime and peacetime was that