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{{Quote|Operation: TREBUCHET had been the UNSC's answer to Insurrectionists, and we'd just been folded into the far-ranging series of operations aimed to "pacify" the Outer Colonies.|[[Gage Yevgenny]]<ref name="dirt141">'''Halo: Evolutions''', "Dirt", ''page 141''</ref>}} | {{Quote|Operation: TREBUCHET had been the UNSC's answer to Insurrectionists, and we'd just been folded into the far-ranging series of operations aimed to "pacify" the Outer Colonies.|[[Gage Yevgenny]]<ref name="dirt141">'''Halo: Evolutions''', "Dirt", ''page 141''</ref>}} | ||
'''Operation: TREBUCHET''' was the [[Unified Earth Government]]'s military response to the numerous civilian uprisings in the [[Outer Colonies]] known as the [[Insurrection]]. Spanning over ten years and encompassing multiple planetary systems, Operation: TREBUCHET involved numerous [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] units and many vessels from the [[UNSC Navy]] in an attempt to bring the dissenting [[insurrectionist]]s in line, effectively crushing all resistance to the [[Earth]]'s authority in the Outer Colonies.<ref name=" | '''Operation: TREBUCHET''' was the [[Unified Earth Government]]'s military response to the numerous civilian uprisings in the [[Outer Colonies]] known as the [[Insurrection]]. Spanning over ten years and encompassing multiple planetary systems, Operation: TREBUCHET involved numerous [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] units and many vessels from the [[UNSC Navy]] in an attempt to bring the dissenting [[insurrectionist]]s in line, effectively crushing all resistance to the [[Earth]]'s authority in the Outer Colonies.<ref name="dirt141"/><ref name="ch11"/> Beginning in [[2513]] with a large, armed uprising in the [[Eridanus system]], it was one of the largest and farthest reaching operations known to have been conducted by the UNSC in its long history.<ref name="ch11">'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 11''</ref> With the beginning of the [[Human-Covenant War]] in [[2525]], Operation: TREBUCHET was temporarily suspended.<ref name="goo39">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 39''</ref> | ||
At first the aggressive response was widely accepted, however, as the fight dragged on and the theater of operations expanded, the continuing operation became extremely unpopular with the human civilian population. Operation: TREBUCHET eventually became the central conflict for Earth's premiere fighting force, the [[United Nations Space Command]], only being ended with the massive genocide that followed with the [[Human-Covenant War]].<ref name="goo39"/> | At first the aggressive response was widely accepted, however, as the fight dragged on and the theater of operations expanded, the continuing operation became extremely unpopular with the human civilian population. Operation: TREBUCHET eventually became the central conflict for Earth's premiere fighting force, the [[United Nations Space Command]], only being ended with the massive genocide that followed with the [[Human-Covenant War]].<ref name="goo39"/> | ||
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==Aftermath and legacy== | ==Aftermath and legacy== | ||
Though scattered Insurrectionist activity continued for a long time, the rebel threat was rapidly decreased when the genocidal Covenant destroyed most Outer Colony systems, [[glassing]] planets and killing every human they encountered. In the meantime, many of the rebels, seeing that the UNSC offered the only real protection against the overwhelming Covenant force, ceased to resist, and either submitted to the UNSC's control or hid themselves away from both UNSC and Covenant attack.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]'''</ref> Some groups of rebels survived free of UNSC control for as long as [[2552]]. The majority simply continued their daily lives without interfering with the UNSC. Others even decided to offer dealings with the UNSC. However, it transpired that [[ | Though scattered Insurrectionist activity continued for a long time, the rebel threat was rapidly decreased when the genocidal Covenant destroyed most Outer Colony systems, [[glassing]] planets and killing every human they encountered. In the meantime, many of the rebels, seeing that the UNSC offered the only real protection against the overwhelming Covenant force, ceased to resist, and either submitted to the UNSC's control or hid themselves away from both UNSC and Covenant attack.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]'''</ref> Some groups of rebels survived free of UNSC control for as long as [[2552]]. The majority simply continued their daily lives without interfering with the UNSC. Others even decided to offer dealings with the UNSC. However, it transpired that [[Operation: SMOKING ACES|some]] were traps.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''pages 36-37''</ref> | ||
The rebel base in the [[Eridanus system]] was marked for further attack, but for some reason, likely due to the greater threat the [[Covenant]] posed, it was left alone and mostly forgotten until [[2552]] when [[Danforth Whitcomb|Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb]] and a small crew including the [[artificial intelligence]] [[Cortana]] and several Spartans (including all but [[Samuel-034|one]] of the team that attacked the base) returned looking for repairs.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 307''</ref> After being convinced to help by a Covenant attack, the rebels repaired the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]''-[[UNSC Gettysburg|''Gettysburg'']] to operational status, but the two ships were too badly damaged to be fully repaired before the Covenant returned. The UNSC forces were forced to abandon the rebels and the base and the rebels have been [[Massacre at Eridanus Secundus|presumably destroyed]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 338''</ref> | The rebel base in the [[Eridanus system]] was marked for further attack, but for some reason, likely due to the greater threat the [[Covenant]] posed, it was left alone and mostly forgotten until [[2552]] when [[Danforth Whitcomb|Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb]] and a small crew including the [[artificial intelligence]] [[Cortana]] and several Spartans (including all but [[Samuel-034|one]] of the team that attacked the base) returned looking for repairs.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 307''</ref> After being convinced to help by a Covenant attack, the rebels repaired the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]''-[[UNSC Gettysburg|''Gettysburg'']] to operational status, but the two ships were too badly damaged to be fully repaired before the Covenant returned. The UNSC forces were forced to abandon the rebels and the base and the rebels have been [[Massacre at Eridanus Secundus|presumably destroyed]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 338''</ref> | ||