later, shortly after the death of their father koto sahaku left ghina as the head of the family, the sahakus acquired several powerful earth alliance mobile suits, piloted by socius series combat coordinators, through secret arrangements with blue cosmos leader muruta azrael (who most likely was unaware of the sahakus being coordinators), and also carried out covert missions on behalf of azrael. these missions, carried out personally by ghina as the pilot of the gold frame, eventually led to conflict with the pilots of orb's lost red frame and blue frame, junk guild technician lowe guele and serpent tail leader gai murakumo, respectively. the first two battles proved inconclusive, but the third cost ghina his life at gai's hands.