clear save

Hello, so today I felt like I wanted to start a new CMDR on Legacy to experience some nostalgia. Just as I was about to click "clear save", I suddenly realized that I might clear my live save too which I didn't want to delete. I searched the internet, but couldn't find an official confirmation...

I was a pit peeved to find that when I did a clear save of my one commander which had an insurance claim in their stats that I lost the squadron that this commander created (and paid for). There was absolutely no warning of this repercussion and I think it is pretty poor of F D to allow this...