Editing Sedran Colonial Guard

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{{Infobox Military Unit
|name=Sedran Colonial Guard
|image=[[File:HNF-Sedran Colonial Guard emblem.jpg|300px]]
|formed=[[Sedra City]]<ref name="wp scg"/>
|formed-title=Headquarters
|branch=
|affiliation=[[Sedra]]
|type=Paramilitary
|role=Colonial defense force
|size=
|battles=
|commanders=[[Randall Aiken|Colonel Randall Aiken]]
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The '''Sedran Colonial Guard''', also known as the '''Sedra Marine Corps''', is the primary military force of the remote [[human]] [[Outer Colony]] of [[Sedra]]. They are led by [[Randall Aiken|Colonel Randall Aiken]], a former [[SPARTAN-II]]. Many soldiers in the Sedran Colonial Guard are well-motivated and dedicated to the defense of their homeworld from both internal and external threats. They are able to maintain a vague semblance of order in the planet's dispersed population centers.<ref name="wp scg"/>

Many individuals serving in the Colonial Guard are also noted as being resentful and mistrustful of the [[UNSC]] and the [[Unified Earth Government]].<ref name="youtube">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZOLp6pYCE '''YouTube''': ''Halo: Nightfall Panel - SDCC 2014'']</ref> 

==History==
===Terrorist attack on Sedra===
{{Main|Terrorist attack on Sedra City}}
On [[2556|February 7, 2556]], a [[Sangheili Zealot]] set off a new [[bioweapon]] that targeted humans in [[Sedra City]], resulting in the strange infection of numerous civilians, and some deaths. The Colonial Guard was forced to ally themselves with an [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] [[Locke's team|unit]] to stop the [[terrorism|terrorists]] from obtaining more of the element used to make the bioweapon.

===Mission to Alpha Shard===
{{Main|Mission to Alpha Shard}}
It was discovered that the element originated from [[Alpha Shard|a fragment]] of the destroyed [[Installation 04]] that had exited [[slipspace]] in orbit over a red giant star in a nearby system. A team consisting of seven Sedran Guard personnel, led by [[Randall Aiken|Colonel Randall Aiken]], and ONI personnel travelled to the fragment in a [[D81-LRT Condor]] to capture the smugglers who mined the element for interrogation and then destroy the deposits with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]].<ref name="nf1">'''[[Halo: Nightfall]]''', ''Chapter 1''</ref> 

The joint team captured two smugglers—[[Arris Le]] and [[Haisal Wari]]—but while they were returning to the Condor for extraction, they were attacked by [[Lekgolo]] swarms. Two of the Sedrans who were preparing the [[Wikipedia:horse|horses]] the smugglers were using for transportation were devoured by the Lekgolo; the Condor's pilot was killed as well when the worms commandeered the craft and crashed it, though [[Talitha Macer|Private Macer]], who served as the copilot, survived. As the Sedrans and ONI agents retreated, another Sedran was killed by the Lekgolo. The surviving Sedrans and ONI agents were able to escape the Lekgolo worms,<ref>'''Halo: Nightfall''', ''Chapter 2''</ref> but it was realized that only two individuals would make it off Alpha Shard due to the Condor being inoperable and the only other means of transport, the smugglers' {{Class|Bactrian|freighter}}, could only hold two. Colonel Aiken told the group to continue on with the mission regardless and retrieve the HAVOK warhead from the Condor. Colonial Guard [[Samantha Wisner|Sergeant Wisner]] was later killed after stopping to retrieve her oxygen breather, which had attracted the Lekgolo to it.<ref>'''Halo: Nightfall''', ''Chapter 3''</ref> Only Colonel Aiken, Private Macer and the ONI unit's [[Jameson Locke|Lieutenant Commander Locke]] made it to the Condor where it was decided that Aiken would stay behind to detonate the HAVOK nuke manually. Narrowly escaping on the smugglers' tug, Macer and Locke were the only survivors of the mission.<ref>'''Halo: Nightfall''', ''Chapter 5''</ref>

==Personnel==
*[[Randall Aiken]] – ''KIA''
*[[Talitha Macer]]
*[[Lindsey Danford]]
*[[Laban Neir]]
*[[Samantha Wisner]] – ''KIA''
*[[Best]] – ''KIA''
*[[Svennson]] – ''KIA''
*[[Silas Kipley]]

==Equipment==
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After the [[Human-Covenant War]], [[Sedra]]'s economic stability and the Sedran colonial government's close relationship with the UNSC in regards to military hardware acquisition allowed it to supply the Sedran Colonial Guard with relatively modern military hardware.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/sedra '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Sedra'']</ref> However, much of this hardware is still inferior to the technology and equipment used by the [[UNSC Defense Force]].<ref name="wp scg">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/factions/sedran-colonial-guard '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Sedran Colonial Guard'']</ref> In many cases, the Colonial Guard is forced to rely on outdated weapons and vehicles, such as the [[M4D pistol]]<ref>'''Halo: Nightfall''': [[Halo: Nightfall: Soldier Within|Soldier Within]]</ref> and the [[D81-LRT Condor]] transport.<ref name="youtube"/><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MR2rN198zw&list=UU7NCg0venpKJg3kuJojKlbQ '''YouTube''': ''Halo Nightfall In Cinema First Look'']</ref> However, some of their equipment, including the [[BR85HB battle rifle]], is up to the standard of the post-war UNSC.<ref name="nf1"/>

==Gallery==
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File:HNF-Aiken_brief.jpg|Members of the Colonial Guard aboard a Condor.
File:Nightfall - FirstLookSCG.png|Colonial Guard personnel around a [[Bactrian-class freighter|transport tug]].
File:Nightfall - LockeAikenMacerWisner.jpg|Members of the Colonial Guard with [[Jameson Locke]].
File:Nightfall - ColonialPelican.png|A Condor used by the Colonial Guard.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Nightfall]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[Halo: Nightfall: Soldier Within|Soldier Within]]''

==Sources==
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