Moved posts regarding Lacus' assassination attempt to the
Lacus' Assassination (Redux) thread.
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Originally Posted by FriedRice84
Very true. Duranadal pretty much only had his circle of followers that supported him. Orb and the Kingdom of Scandinavia flat out rejected him right away. The Atlantic Federation, which pretty much represented a 1/4 of the world, tried to question him and look what happened to their president - vaporized without even so much as a word being exchanged. Hell, the PLANTS and the Council were pretty much like "WTF?" When Durandal announced the Destiny Plan, the entire PLANT Supreme Council were caught off-guard. They thought he was going to make a memorial announcement for the victims of the Requiem by Djibril. After Durandal's announcement of the Destiny Plan, he pretty much attacked by his own accord. He no longer went through the Supreme Council. I could go even further and say that the ever faithful puppet, Shinn, was starting to doubt the Destiny Plan - which he did until Rey re-brainwashed him.
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Pretty much. Although to be fair, the President of the Atlantic Federation was going to attack Durandal no matter what he said. Underlying the Destiny Plan was the fact that PLANT was still at war with everyone else, and none of them had any particular reason to stop fighting.
In fact, this would apply more to Durandal than anyone else. At that point in time, he was in the greatest of danger. Much of his governing support had been derived from Clyne supporters - now that Lacus had denounced him as a fraud, that support was soon to evaporate, and PLANT was likely to devolve into civil war. The only way he had of forestalling that was to quickly eliminate Lacus and implement the Destiny Plan. If he failed at either, Lacus' supporters were likely to bring him down sooner or later, and all of his planning would be for nought.