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|name=Operation: TREBUCHET | |name=Operation: TREBUCHET | ||
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|conflict=[[Insurrection]] | |conflict=[[Insurrection]] | ||
|date=[[2513]]–[[2525#February|February 3, 2525]] | |date=[[2513]]–[[2525#February|February 3, 2525]] | ||
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|casual1=Four destroyers, several Marines | |casual1=Four destroyers, several Marines | ||
|casual2=Rebel soldiers, almost all space craft | |casual2=Rebel soldiers, almost all space craft | ||
|civilian=Over one million [[civilian]]s killed | |civilian=Over one million [[civilian]]s killed<ref name="dirt117">'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[Dirt]]", ''page 117''</ref> | ||
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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>}} | ||
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===Spread across the colonies=== | ===Spread across the colonies=== | ||
{{Quote|A million casualties now, caught in the crossfire, since TREBUCHET started. No one's going to ignore that. The civilians will keep cheering the rebels on.|[[Felicia Sanderson]] | {{Quote|A million casualties now, caught in the crossfire, since TREBUCHET started. No one's going to ignore that. The civilians will keep cheering the rebels on.|[[Felicia Sanderson]]{{Ref/Reuse|dirt117}}}} | ||
By [[2524]], Operation: TREBUCHET had resulted in over one million casualties caught in the crossfire.{{Ref/Reuse|dirt117}} Meanwhile, Colonel Watts had created more rebel installations on planets throughout human-occupied space. The United Rebel Front proved to be difficult to route, and several other organized insurgent factions developed on other [[human colonies]]. Despite the best efforts of UNSC personnel, [[Terrorism|terrorist]] bombings continued and civilians were still caught in the crossfire, resulting in a growth of resentment directed towards the UNSC.<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe''', ''page 45'' (2011)</ref> As part of the operation, supersoldiers of the [[ORION Project]] were deployed on covert missions to engage insurgents.<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe''', ''page 83'' (2011)</ref> During one of these missions, [[Avery Johnson]] nearly succeeded in assassinating Watts.{{Ref/Reuse|ch112}} | By [[2524]], Operation: TREBUCHET had resulted in over one million casualties caught in the crossfire.{{Ref/Reuse|dirt117}} Meanwhile, Colonel Watts had created more rebel installations on planets throughout human-occupied space. The United Rebel Front proved to be difficult to route, and several other organized insurgent factions developed on other [[human colonies]]. Despite the best efforts of UNSC personnel, [[Terrorism|terrorist]] bombings continued and civilians were still caught in the crossfire, resulting in a growth of resentment directed towards the UNSC.<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe''', ''page 45'' (2011)</ref> As part of the operation, supersoldiers of the [[ORION Project]] were deployed on covert missions to engage insurgents.<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe''', ''page 83'' (2011)</ref> During one of these missions, [[Avery Johnson]] nearly succeeded in assassinating Watts.{{Ref/Reuse|ch112}} | ||
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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> | ||
By [[2553|April 2553]], Operation: TREBUCHET had been suspended for nearly thirty years, though the [[Venezian Militia]] still believed the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] was willing to continue it. This led to the militia creating a large weapons pile-up and even capturing the {{ | By [[2553|April 2553]], Operation: TREBUCHET had been suspended for nearly thirty years, though the [[Venezian Militia]] still believed the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] was willing to continue it. This led to the militia creating a large weapons pile-up and even capturing the {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}} ''[[Pious Inquisitor]]'' in the event that they needed to defend [[Venezia]] from the operation.{{Ref/Reuse|md187}} | ||
The operation led to the UNSC developing new technologies and tactics. During the final stages of Operation: TREBUCHET, the UNSC began to perfect the "[[soft-seal]]" technology used by Marine [[ | The operation led to the UNSC developing new technologies and tactics. During the final stages of Operation: TREBUCHET, the UNSC began to perfect the "[[soft-seal]]" technology used by Marine [[boarding|boarders]], allowing them to deploy into a target ship from a [[D77-TC Pelican]] dropship.<ref>''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''</ref> | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== |