To say a point regarding civilians - Coalition NEEDS civilians around all houses and groups (exept Outcasts who we never let in). Coalition is fairly small, it dont have manpower for war with houses. Going terrorist ways and killing everyhing red wont give them additional support. Coalition is a communists wanna be, so they follow the traditional communist idea - all working class aka proletariat is friends to those who call themself communists. Yes, some of them might work for houses, but the point of Sirius Coalition is to turn them into coalition ways and revolt against capitalists of all sort. Coalition needs those people as a muscle for Revolution.
Defending them from pirates is good show. People will see that Coalition isnt a terrorists as houses show them as. I know, I had this interactions ingame, they are quite fun ones. Going all rampage Sol Coalition is impossible for 4-5 million Coalition. And its boring. We have Gallia for it by the way.
Edit: Coalition ID nor SCRA ID isnt close to be terrorist ID. We have good ammount of other IDs with huge to-kill list or sirius wide ZOI. And indies on Typhoon wont give much bias. We had a damn OC Dreads in NY, yet I dont see OCs have a line in ID not to bring caps to liberty, right? So any of those two points is hardly valid and just stinks of hypocricy.