"The Admirality's goal is not to recapture LD-14 but to apply sufficient pressure on Kusari that they are forced to move ships from LD-14 to other sectors and thus open the possibility of recapturing Bretonian bases in Leeds."
While this might be a simple NPC slaughtering exercise, the point is that Cannon is using Flhook to track game variables to accomplish some pretty amazing event dynamics. Something that adds a level to the game, and improves it. This is an experiment in that sort of thing. Knowing Cannon, even wilder stuff will follow.