Editing Free Frontier Education: The Sundered Legion

{{Title|''Free Frontier Education: The Sundered Legion''}}
{{Status|RealWorld}}
[[File:H5G Meridian Hestia.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Hestia V]] looming over Meridian, as used to represent the story in [[Canon Fodder]].{{Ref/Reuse|CFDiscourse}}]]
'''''Free Frontier Education: The Sundered Legion''''' is a short story that is included as additional content in the novel ''[[Halo: Battle Born]]'', added as part of the re-release version of the book. In-universe, this short story is part of "[[The History of Meridian]]" holo-film series made by [[Free Frontier Education]].{{Ref/Site|Id=CFDiscourse|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-didactic-discourse|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Didactic Discourse|D=17|M=04|Y=2024}}

The story is one of two featured in the ''Battle Born'' Adjunct section, exclusively included in the [[2024]] re-issue of the novel under [[Simon & Schuster]] publishing - the other being ''[[Glassed (short story)|Glassed]]''.{{Ref/Reuse|CFDiscourse}}

==Plot synopsis==
''Free Frontier Educaton: The Sundered Legion'' is presented as a transcript for an in-universe documentary of the same name, focusing on the history of the [[Insurrection]] on [[Meridian]]. The story is fictionally narrated by [[Myras Tyla]], a celebrity from [[Earth]] who escaped [[Cleveland]] during the [[Battle of Cleveland|Covenant attack]] in [[2552]]. Tyla begins the story by noting that the events covered begin in [[2495]] - three years following the [[Far Isle rebellion]] and the same year in which [[Colonel]] [[Robert Watts]]' [[Secessionist Union]] had taken [[Eridanus II]] for the rebel cause. She then narrates the history of the [[Sundered Legion]] on Meridian, covering their emergence amidst the [[Colonial Military Authority]]'s departure from the planet in [[2499]] and gradual rise to power over the ensuing decades. A mid-reel break interrupts the story, advertising [[BLAST|BLAST Beverages]], before continuing the narration of the UEG-Sundered Legion antagonism on Meridian as the planet becomes a military-economic powerhouse for the UEG as a whole. This tension explodes in [[2516]], with the [[Siege of Aethia]] and [[Operation: TREBUCHET]]. The short ends with a tease to hear the next chapter of Meridian's history - focusing on the [[Human-Covenant War]] - after a commercial break consisting of a [[Liang-Dortmund Corporation]] advertisement.

==Appearances==
{{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-5
|title-1=Characters|
*[[Charles Zdenek]] {{Fm}}
*[[Myras Tyla]]
*[[Robert Watts]] {{Mo}}
*[[Yera Sabinus]] {{Mo}}

|title-2=Species|
*[[Human]]

|title-3=Organizations|
*[[Free Frontier Education]]
*[[Insurrectionist]]
**[[Secessionist Union]] {{Mo}}
**[[Sundered Legion]] {{Mo}}
**[[United Rebel Front]] {{Mo}}
*[[Liang-Dortmund Corporation]] {{Mo}}
*[[Meridian Air Force]] {{Mo}}
*[[Prospector Party]] {{Mo}}
*[[Unified Earth Government]] {{Mo}}
**[[Colonial Military Authority]] {{Mo}}
**[[United Nations Space Command]] {{Mo}}

|title-4=Locations|
*[[Eridanus system]]
**[[Eridanus II]] {{Mo}}
*[[Far Isle]] {{Mo}}
*[[Hestia system]]
**[[Meridian]]
***[[Aagen]] {{Mo}}
***[[Aethia]] {{Mo}}
***[[Bretagne]] {{Mo}}
***[[Sabudia]] {{Mo}}

|title-5=Events|
*[[Insurrection]]
**[[Far Isle rebellion]] {{Mo}}
**[[Operation: TREBUCHET]] {{Mo}}
**[[Siege of Aethia]] {{Mo}}

|title-6=Vehicles|
*[[Scorpion]] {{Mo}}

|title-7=Miscellaneous|
*[[BLAST]] {{Mo}}
}}

==Sources==
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