Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect
:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.
Oh gawd. Where to begin.
Read The Fall of Reach, Cole Protocole, the start of Contact Harvest and especially the short story Dirt from Evolutions.
Long story short, the rebels were a group of people that demanded the UNSC that should have the right to succeed and be able to self govern due to the UNSC's policy of ''Earth Interests First'' and not catering to each of the colonies individual and unique problems. The UNSC, of course denied them this since the Outer Colonies where the main supply of raw good for the UNSC, and loosing them would be a hard blow. The UNSC entered an undeclared civil war with the rebellion that by 2525 had more than 1 million civilian casualties caught in the cross fire. The main surge of the rebellion happend to be in the Epsilon Eridanus system, the same system where Reach was, the UNSC's main colony and heavy producer of war materials, war ships and training grounds for the UNSC ground forces. The Rebels managed to survive by hiding in the Asteroid Belt that was in the system, lead by a former UNSC colonel that had defected to the rebel cause, which would later be caught by Blue Team when they infiltrated the asteroid-base. Tribute, in the Epsilon Eridanus system, was scenario of the hardest UNSC repression against the Rebellion. The war was officially called OPERATION TREBUTCHET, and the Spartan's were mainly made to be able to deal with the Insurgency, silently and effectively.
That could sum it up.
[Edited on 09.15.2011 12:07 PM PDT]