United Rebel Front
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The United Rebel Front is a complex, well organized faction of humans devoted to complete liberation from the influence of the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command. It is led a political leader (in 2552, Governor Jiles) and militarily by at three Generals, one of which was General Howard Graves before his death in 2531 along with Colonel Watts, who was captured in 2525.
History
Around 2511, the Eridanus Rebels had overthrown the colonial government of Eridanus II, and largely controlled all activities within the system. The UNSC responded harshly, seeking to put down the Rebellion forcibly.
In 2513, a space battle occurred between the Eridanus Rebels and the UNSC, Operation: TREBUCHET. In the battle the UNSC reached a pyrrical victory with the loss of four destroyers. Unfortunately, elements of the rebellion escaped into the nearby Eridanus Asteroid Belt.[1]
In 2525, the Office of Naval Intelligence reported that it had uncovered a breach within FLEETCOM: there were several spies for the organization. They had also discovered that the rebels were led by a Colonel Robert Watts and that they had connections to the outside world and were being supplied by outside sources such as the cargo freighter Laden.[2] That year a group of Spartans underwent a covert operation and captured Watts from the very heart of the rebel operations base, the rebel stronghold at Eridanus Secundus, leaving many of the rebel soldiers dead throughout the base.
By 2531 United Rebel Front had repeatedly had its operations disrupted by a four-man team of Spartan-II supersoldiers known as Blue Team. The team disrupted URF operations including Station Jefferson; the destroyer URF Origami; a saboteur cell on Reach; an incident in Micronesia, and a high-explosives manufacturing facility at an unspecified location.[3] In response the rebels gathered together three stolen FENRIS Nuclear Warheads at Camp New Hope in a way so sloppy that the Office of Naval Intelligence could not help but notice, then contacted the UNSC and offered to trade the nukes in exchange for medicines for their people suffering from Boren's Syndrome. They then set a trap for Blue Team, whom they anticipated would be sent. During the Raid on Camp New Hope the rebels successfully ambushed John-117, Frederic-104, Kelly-087 and Linda-058 using an Antigravity Plate, they were however unaware of the presence of a fifth Spartan and new addition to the team, Kurt-051, who had avoided the trap. Kurt was able to free the other members of Blue Team and they then retreated from the camp with the recovered warheads before the camp could launch a proper counterattack. General Howard Graves was killed in the process.
In 2552 the Spartans returned to the belt aboard the UNSC Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice hybrid vessel to make repairs. Governor Jacob Jiles was the leader of the rebels at that time. A brief "showdown" occurred with Admiral Whitcomb in which Whitcomb threatened to fire the plasma cannons, while Jiles aimed nukes at Ascendant Justice. Suddenly, a Covenant cruiser that had followed the trail of the vessel appeared in the system. As it turns out, Whitcomb's plasma cannons were all duds except one and Jiles' nukes were fake ones radiating signals. After a short fight, the Covenant ship was destroyed with severe damage done to the Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice. Several days later three dozen Covenant vessels appeared in the system, forcing the Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice to retreat. The Covenant then eradicated the base entirely. As far as anyone knows, the Eridanus Rebels were massacred in the process.
Resources
The United Rebel Front had a highly organized intelligence division, and a far flung network of facilities, comprised of a network of different rebel movements, such as the Eridanus Rebels. They commanded facilities such as Eridanus Secundus, Camp New Hope on planet Victoria and Station Jefferson, which was located in the asteroid belt of Eridanus. They also had a high explosives manufacturing facility, operations of an unknown kind on Micronesia, and a saboteur cell on Reach. All these operations were shut down by the Spartans of Blue Team.[3]
The Rebels had an impressive security system, even by Spartan standards: motion and seismic sensors, a triple layering of guards, trained dogs and overhead MAKO Drones. [4]
They also had a number of arms, ranging from military grade MAKO Drones and FENRIS Nuclear Warheads to Archer Missiles and .30 cal "Confetti Maker" machine guns. [4] They used Parabola-class Freighters such as the Laden, to ferry and ship diverse equipment, resources, and weapons from planet systems to their base. They also somehow managed to acquire the destroyer, Origami.[5] They also possessed some "old technology that never panned out" when they used an Antigravity Plate to fool the Spartan's armor systems into thinking they were in a 10 G environment, temporarily giving them decompression sickness, otherwise known as "the bends."
The Eridanus-based URF rebels utilized everything from upgraded Pelican dropships to Mako-class corvettes to Chiroptera-class prowlers as an improvised fleet. They had at least a hundred such vessels in their fleet at any one time. Two Laden-class freighters were also used by them as part of their improvised fleet, being used to tow the damaged hybrid vessel Gettysburg/Ascendant Justice back to Eridanus Secundus. They received almost everything in their armament and ships from pirating other vessels, even if it would be a civilian craft, or a lone UNSC vessel.
Their ability to infiltrate the UNSC ranks caused the UNSC to keep a small orbital force in the system to respond to rebel attacks. Another reason for their success was their location, which was extremely difficult and time-consuming to discover and was easily defended against even medium-scale assaults.
Trivia
- The United Rebel Front made their own version of the standard Warthog, the M12 Warthog APC.
- It has been theorized that the URF is what became of the remnants of the Insurrectionist movement during the Human-Covenant War.
- It has also been theorized that the Rebel bases in Halo Wars belong to the United Rebel Front, as they are on maps that take place on Human-controlled planets like Harvest and Arcadia, or others such as the planet Fort Deen takes place on.
Sources
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, pages 75-76
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, pages 76-77
- ^ a b Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 36
- ^ a b Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 31
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 37
