After Bright led his forces into war against the Federal Army, everything that followed proceeded naturally. Even the timing of Bright's clash with the Federation had come a little earlier than Xiao Ran had expected. Though it was only a short amount of time, for the Victory Fleet fighting in space, even a few extra minutes—or ten—made the destruction of the Colony Satellite seem far more natural.
What happened on Earth might have seemed normal amid the emergency, but once the situation stabilized, making the development of events appear natural would depend on what Roland and his associates could accomplish. In any case, the reasons and process were not all that important. What truly mattered was only the outcome.
The rest was very simple. The Victory Fleet utterly defeated the joint forces of the Gamillas Fleet and New Zeon. Other than the flagship that escaped, nearly all of the Gamillas Fleet's warships, fighters, and MS units were destroyed. As a result, Londo Bell in space and the Old Zeon Army on Axis gained another large batch of prisoners.
As for New Zeon's Sleeves, roughly half of those stubborn fools chose to force their own deaths. The other half surrendered after Minerva persuaded them. Xiao Ran did not ask what would ultimately happen to those who surrendered.
The Colony Satellite that had been about to fall to Earth was first subjected to concentrated fire from countless warships, then ravaged by Reaction Missiles, and finally swept clean by MED Warheads. In the end, only fragments too small to affect Earth remained, plunging into the atmosphere like meteors and vanishing from this world after bursting into countless brilliant lights. Though it was only a brief advance in timing, that short window meant the Burning Legion did not even need to transform to eliminate