Insurrection

This article is about the civil war. For the loosely organized rebel factions, see Insurrectionist.

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Insurrection
Date:	2494 - c. April 2526 (See below)
Location:	Across more than a dozen worlds, Human colonies
Outcome:	Partial truce between some Insurrectionist forces and the UEG, mostly ending the conflict with the arrival of the Covenant Millions dead Various actors continue to fight for years afterwards
Details Belligerents UEG Colonial Authority CMA (Until 2525) Marine Corps Navy UNSC Army Marine Corps Air Force Navy Eridanus Government Talitsa Corporate Council Biko colonial authority Chancellor's Guards Insurrectionists URF (Post-2509) Secessionist Union (2494-2502) Eridanus secessionists FLP People's Occupation People's Occupation Government Sundered Legion Bandusa Insurrectionist group Venezian Militia GLF BIA Galodew Emancipation supported by Rogue Colonial Military Administration elements (sponsored insurgents until 2497) Commanders ADM Harold Stanforth ADM Gabriela Castaneda RADM Preston Cole COL Marmon Crowther LTCOL Aboim LTCOL Ponder (WIA) General Harper Garvin Morgan Kinsano Colonel Robert Watts (POW) Captain Lyrenne Castilla Hector Nyeto Erland Booth Jerald Ander† Molin Saal† Standish Kable† Elanor Kef† Strength ORION Project SPARTAN-II program Battle Group Tango 9th Marine Expeditionary Force 21st Space Assault Battalion Various militant rebel cells and factions Several dozen outdated frigates and a few hundred corvettes Casualties Significant losses of UNSC and CMA personnel and materiel Large numbers of personnel, materiel, and facilities

"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.

The Insurrection is an undeclared civil war fought between the various policing and military organizations of the Unified Earth Government and various loosely organized groups of rebels over control o