Angelo's desire to recruit Coordinators had naturally been impossible before, because he could not make such decisions on his own.
Although Gundam SEED had established a Space Gate connecting the two worlds, it was, overall, still independent of the other two. Whether it was the Fleet World or the 0079 World, the function and existence of the Space Gate, the existence of the other worlds, and the existence of Prometheus had at least spread among the higher-ups. Even quite a few military personnel and soldiers in both worlds understood what was going on.
But Gundam SEED was completely different. Aside from the very few people from the Fleet World and the 0079 World who had the right to travel freely, it was basically kept secret from the entire SEED World. Not a single person in that world truly knew anything about Xiao Ran. Under those circumstances, Xiao Ran could disappear, and even disappear again for a long period, without anyone investigating the secrets behind his absence.
That was because those capable of probing into all this considered themselves clever. Lacus was like that, and so was Durandal. They would believe that Xiao Ran had secrets of his own—an enormous secret—and that secret was a sword hanging over their heads. Insisting on uncovering it would shatter their peace and plunge them back into war. They were satisfied with the current situation, so they naturally restrained their urge to investigate Xiao Ran's secrets. But no matter how clever they were, they could never know that Xiao Ran did not belong to their world, nor could such an idea ever occur to them.
But once they learned that Xiao Ran did not belong to their world, they would feel that the sword hanging above them was not merely for show, but something that