There was no doubt that Sakura's military coup in P.L.A.N.T. had a truly earth-shaking impact.
Especially when she announced that the Supreme Council would be suspended indefinitely and that all authority would be taken over by the military, Coordinator civilians could scarcely believe it was real.
Even more absurdly, the young people behind the coup ranged from just fifteen years old to no older than twenty-seven.
The only fortunate thing was that, aside from Rau Le Creuset and a handful of diehards, the entire coup caused very few deaths and no social unrest whatsoever.
Everything had happened so quickly that before anyone else could react, it was already over.
Sakura, once heavily promoted as a war hero, officially stepped out from behind the scenes and became the nominal supreme commander of the ZAFT Army.
Upon hearing the news, many soldiers and officers on the front lines breathed a sigh of relief.
Though the sudden coup sounded rather alarming.
Once they learned that the new ruler was the "Red Queen" who had brought them countless victories, their resistance naturally faded considerably.
After all, for soldiers currently serving in the military, they were willing to obey whoever could lead the Coordinators to victory in this war.
Commanders such as "Desert Tiger" Andrew Bartfeld, who had originally supported Chairman Siegfried Klein, expressed fierce dissatisfaction with the coup at first.
But after learning that Lacuss had been recruited into the military government and given full responsibility over domestic affairs, they quickly chose to keep quiet.
There was no helping it!
The scandals that had been exposed earlier had simply disappointed the entire population too deeply.
Patrick Zala, a man who had once devoted everything to the founding of P.L.A.N.T., had actually plotted against a friend who had once fought beside him for the sake