Which is kind of the issue. They're great at being heroes, kinda bad at being mercenaries - sure, they had 'secret orders' from the Archon to break their contract on Hesperus, but they still broke the publicly recorded contract - and as you said, it was military classified. The MRBC didn't have access to them, and even if they did, the general public wouldn't, so their reputation would still be shot to hell. Caledonia was before those orders got issued, they were just refusing to commit war crimes...which again is the whole 'good, not lawful' thing. Pandora, effectively the same thing - stupid orders are still orders, unfortunately, though it's the least of their sins since they managed to win.<br/><br/>It's definitely a sad ending for them, but I don't find it any more ridiculous based on their visible track record than the concept of them being wiped out in the first place.