It simply saw a superior technology and decided to attack.

10 assassinations of relatively innocent people simultaneously. Straight out of Walter white’s playbook when he went full villain.

Gave me brave brew world vibes since they are essentially raising them up to be the foot soldier class. It would be even easier to draft them

Something tells me he has already given the order multiple times but the people around him have to carefully explain to him why that’s a very bad idea until he backs down.