Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny/WMG: Difference between revisions

* Fourth, the use of the Cyclops superweapon on the Grimaldi front. This ended a theater of the war, as the supply base that was its objective was destroyed, and also resulted in massive casualties on both sides, including every single one of the Atlantic Federation's Mobius Zero corps, except for Mu la Flaga, who Rau would later complain was [[The Rival|always getting in his way]]. Rau could have suggested the tactic to Azrael, hoping to both escalate the war and eliminate the obstacle Mu and his comrades represented, as they were essentially if not literally newtypes and stronger than almost any coordinator.

* Fifth, the destruction of the Silverwind. The Silverwind was a civilian passenger ship carrying Lacus Clyne on an inspection of Junius 7, lost with all hands and passengers except for her, as she was put into an escape pod beforehand. If the ship were chartered early enough, Rau could have gotten wind of its course and asked Azrael to ensure a ship with a strongly anti-coordinator crew just happened to be in the area. If Lacus were killed, it might have had the same effect on Siegel Clyne as Lenore Zala's death had on her husband.

** Alternately, Le Creuset was just behind the nuclear attack. Tensions were already at a boil and all Rau had to do to make it boil over was give Azrael a way through ZAFT's defences. Azrael's foreign policy can best be summed up as "when you have enemies, you shoot them," something that Le Creuset would have figured out after about ten seconds interacting with the man. The rest of the war was easy to improvise: latch on to the ZAFT commander with the biggest grudge against the Naturals (if it hadn't been Patrick he could have easily selected somebody else; with Rau's brains behind them they would have been Commander-in-Chief soon enough), and ensure his rise to power while still feeding Azrael information. With both sides led by hardliners he didn't need to engineer anything else beyond the eventual use of the superweapons; there certainly wasn't going to be a compromise as long as Azrael was alive. Same basic idea, just more [[Manipulative Bastard]] and less [[Chessmaster]].