Arthur Lynch commanded the Free Planets Alliance fleet at El Facil when things went south in 788 UC. He got captured trying to escape after the battle and spent years in an Imperial POW camp before being exchanged back to the Alliance.
Here's where it gets interesting: Reinhard von Lohengramm sent him back with a specific mission—to orchestrate a military coup. It worked, too. The coup spiraled into the Alliance Civil War, exactly as Reinhard had planned. Whether Lynch was a willing agent or acted under duress remains ambiguous, but his role in destabilizing the Alliance during this period was decisive.
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