Although Clarien had worked up his crew into a frenzy to search for and kill Avery, Kasandra, and Liesel, he honestly did not care about the outcome.
The only reason that he had done so was to restrict the intruders' movements and hopefully prevent them from causing any more issues.
While Clarien often came off as a flippant individual, he was quite pragmatic.
His ship was unlikely to be able to get away before the Alliance Police arrived, so he was going to abandon it.
Initially he wanted his crew to escape as well, since replacing everyone would take a great deal of time and money, but his own survival took precedence over everything else.
With all internal means of escape impossible, he had ordered one of the other ships under his command to come and pick him up.
It was unfortunate how the mission was a failure, but so long as they escaped with some of the advanced small ships, it would not be a total loss.
