Insurrection

The Insurrection is the proper name given to the civil war which was fought by the UNSC and the rebels of various planets of the outer colonies. The Insurrectionists did not want the Human-Covenant War, for reasons ranging from pacificity to reverence of aliens. UNSC Marines held Insurrectionists in low esteem and refer to them as "Innies." Insurrectionists started out as peaceful protesters. As no progress was made and negotiations failed the Insurrectionists "evolved" and used terrorist tactics. They would bomb military and government targets in protest, progressing ever further to non-military targets, which according to Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson caused the Insurrectionist cause to lose all of its support and sympathizers. Later in the war, the Insurrectionists managed to bomb a civilian spaceship cruise known as the National Holiday, which was passed off as an accident by the Office of Naval Intelligence. The Insurrectionists used cunning methods to fool ONI such as changing methods of hiding chemical radiation from the ARGUS tools. Brutal methods were used on both sides, as the UNSC forces showed no mercy upon prisoners. One such instance was portrayed in the book, Halo: Contact Harvest, where an ONI officer orders Staff Sergeant Byrne to execute all the prisoners besides the one who gave in to answering questions regarding the bomb's location.

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 * Halo: Contact Harvest