Insurrection
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2494[1] - c. April 2526[2] (See below) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Across more than a dozen worlds, Human colonies[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Partial truce between some Insurrectionist forces and the UEG, mostly ending the conflict with the arrival of the Covenant[2][4][5] | ||||||||||||||||||
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- "The insurrectionists say that the people of one planet owe nothing to the people of another planet. The insurrectionists say the Earth is in the past, and the past is dead. Well, not so long ago, all of humanity lived on a single planet. Hard to imagine isn't it? But try to think of what it must have been like to be a human back then — to know only one world. Each and every one of us here contributes to the health and well-being of a Unified Earth Government. How is that fair? 'Why should I give anything to Earth if I don't even live there?' Well, without us, without the UNSC, colonies starve, planets die. And for what? Now, the insurrectionists, they say they'd rather risk the lives of millions of colonists than do their duty to ensure the continued survival of the trillions of humans spread throughout this galaxy. But not me. No. Me, I say we're all in this together."
- — General Daniel Black in a lecture at Corbulo Academy of Military Sciences.[7]
The Insurrection is an undeclared civil war[8] fought between the various policing and military organizations of the Unified Earth Government and various loosely organized groups of rebels over control of the Outer Colonies, which began in the year 2494.
Originally, the breakaway movements started as disquiet against the Colonial Administration Authority's oversight of the Outer Colonies, with the colonists tired of the organization's often overbearing bureaucracy. It first started as peaceful protests, and after years of frustrating negotiations, some groups began to use more forceful methods, eventually abandoning diplomacy in favor of terrorist tactics.
Initially confined to a few systems, the fighting spread across human-controlled space in only several years; as the conflict escalated further, even some Inner Colonies, as inwards as the Epsilon Eridani system and even the Sol system itself, were targeted by rebel militants and terrorists.[9] What had once been widespread support for the Insurrectionists quickly dried up at the outbreak of violence. Though they started out targeting only military and Colonial Administration targets, as the UNSC counterinsurgency operations began, more and more innocent people were caught in the crossfire.[10]
The Insurrection claimed millions of lives between the late 2490s and the mid-2520s. The various rebel groups had become extremely adept at creating improvised explosive devices difficult for the UNSC to detect, and therefore stop, and had struck many high-profile targets, even in orbit above Reach itself. Some opponents of the war believed the simplest solution was to simply give the rebels their autonomy - for the UNSC to pull out, and let the rebels have their independence. However, the value of the colonies made them simply too important to abandon, as it would bankrupt the Inner Colonies.
The Insurrection quickly died down after the onset of the Human-Covenant War that began in 2525. Many Insurrectionists prioritized fighting against the Covenant due to them being a common enemy as well as the outer colonies being the Covenant's first targets.[11] However, few isolated insurgent groups staged operations against the UNSC in a two-front war, throughout the war until 2537.[12] After the