The resulting battle pitted the UNSC against at least one hundred smaller rebel craft. However, the United Nations Space Command anticipated the attack and responded harshly, sending a fleet of carriers, cruisers, and destroyers to the system to combat the rebel fleet. In 2513, fighting broke out throughout the Eridanus system, as rebels supporting the system's breakaway from the Unified Earth Government built a small navy of civilian craft and attempted to take over the system. Colonel Robert Watts, intending to use Eridanus II as a base of operations for the URF and drag the Colonial Military Authority into a costly guerrilla war, launched an armed uprising on the planet. Iliad engaging UNSC warships over Eridanus IIĮventually, the United Rebel Front regained enough strength to attempt to overthrow the Eridanus Government a second time. " In 2513, an armed insurrection in this system was suppressed by the UNSC force-Operation: TREBUCHET." - Doctor Catherine Halsey, referring to the insurrection on Eridanus II The URF continued to engage UNSC and CMA forces on a number of worlds across the Outer Colonies. Following the Eridanus II rebellion, Watts realigned most of the remaining insurgent factions that had aided him under his command and formed the United Rebel Front. Eventually, the UNSC successfully regained control of the world, at the cost of four destroyers. Through a series of counter operations, the UNSC managed to break Watts' hold on the planet and splinter the insurgent factions allied with him by eliminating their leaderships. In January of 2496, UNSC forces finally responded to the government's requests and launched their campaign- Operation: CHARLEMAGNE-to retake Eridanus II, deploying a battle group to engage the makeshift insurrectionist defense fleet. By January 2495, the insurgents had effectively taken control of the entire planet. The Eridanus Government officially requested aid from the United Nations Space Command in December of the same year. Meanwhile, the rebels amassed a fleet of vessels from the CMA. These attacks heavily impacted Eridanus II's shipping industry. Equipped by defectors from the Colonial Military Authority, the rebels performed a well-planned and efficiently executed campaign of city bombings, political assassinations, and kidnappings. In June of 2494, UNSC Marine turncoat Colonel Robert Watts led a well-armed insurrectionist faction on Eridanus II and established their own secessionist government in the wake of the coup d'état. Prelude Main article: Operation: CHARLEMAGNE 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. Īt 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. With the beginning of the Human-Covenant War in 2525, Operation: TREBUCHET was temporarily suspended. 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. Spanning over ten years and encompassing multiple planetary systems, Operation: TREBUCHET involved numerous Marine units and many vessels from the UNSC Navy in an attempt to bring the dissenting insurrectionists in line, effectively crushing all resistance to the Earth's authority in the Outer Colonies. Operation: TREBUCHET was the Unified Earth Government's military response to the numerous civilian uprisings in the Outer Colonies known as the Insurrection. " 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
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