And if Lyran Military records were declassified, they'd show, quite starkly, that on Caledonia and Hesperus during the Operation Excalibur fracas, the GDL was operating directly under the orders of the Archon to destroy a Seperatist Plot to capture a sizeable chunk of the Lyran Military-Industrial Complex, which forced the GDL to play the 'bad guy'.<br/><br/>And Pandora was more a case of 'Just got ordered to stand and slug it out with a bunch of clanners, when that's been proven from the last 80 or so worlds that does NOT work, so fuck this I'm going to flank them like I originally outlined and said to the planetary commander that would be the best way to defeat the enemy forces in detail'