The two princes probably deserved that, but the tragedy of large-scale warfare is that among those hundreds of thousands of soldiers that got caught up in all that, there were probably quite a few decent or even good people, who had no choice but to take the jobs they did due to the rigged galactic economy. When it's join an evil empire / corporation or literally starve to death, the options aren't great, and many of them are probably in the same boat as the angels.