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He really was hestiating about fighting Zaft though. Going easy on Shinn aside (which he was, seeing as he wastes his distance advantage ineffectually trying to shake Shinn off, instead of Full Bursting him while Shinn was still flying towards him, not to mention him actually disabling Shinn and then trying to leave him be only to get the spare parts rammed into him from behind while Shinn gets to fully repair himself) had he and the AA just outright leveled the Zaft force after them instead of Kira slowly picking them off while AA just tried to make the ships move by shooting near misses, and had they let the 10 or so Murasame's help out, they'd have been long gone before Minerva even showed up.
Likewise even if they haven't, Shinn wouldn't have been to focus on Kira so intently if he had to also worry about the Murasame's attacking him.
But since they were afraid of Zaft filming the footage and altering it to make them look like they were hostile agressors against Zaft with Orb's support, they had to hold back, less Durandal use them as an excuse to invade Orb later on.
Which failed, because Durandal got another excuse anyway, so really they might as well have not bothered trying to not escalate the situation.
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