After crying, Cagalli's mental state visibly improved. Not only did she get up and take a shower in the bathroom, she even found time to eat something and replenish her strength.
By the time she attended the press conference that evening, she was already able to act as though nothing had happened and publicly announce the coup.
At the same time, in order to stabilize public sentiment and prevent civilians from panicking,
she declared that, with the military's support, she would replace her father, Uzummi Yula Athha, as Orb's new head of state, while initiating legal proceedings to purge all members of the other four privileged families.
In addition, Cagalli endured her humiliation and anger to acknowledge the news of her impending political marriage to Allen.
Any one of those announcements would have been enough to send shockwaves around the world.
But in the face of the coup in P.L.A.N.T. and the ZAFT Army using nuclear bombs to open the way for a full-scale invasion of the Eurasian Federation, it was simply too insignificant to cause much of a stir.
Only the Atlantic Federation, which had invested enormous financial resources and effort into winning over Orb's Five Noble Families, expressed intense outrage and condemnation.
Moreover, its newly appointed representative, Mu La Flaga, loudly declared that he would never recognize the legitimacy of Orb's new regime. He also threatened that if Cagalli did not surrender unconditionally and hand over the mutinous Archangel along with all its crew, he would send troops to flatten Orb.
In fact, that was exactly what he did.
As soon as news of Orb's successful coup spread, the Atlantic Federation immediately began assembling a fleet and drafting large numbers of Naturals to train them to pilot mass-produced MS units.
At the same time, the enhanced human modification