Insurrection (Stormverse)

The Insurrection was a terrible time for Humanity, surpassed only by the Human-Covenant War in terms of lives lost.
==Events==
===2511 Ishimura bombing===
On August 8, 2511, a nuclear device was detonated aboard the container ship Jade Rabbit six minutes after the freighter had docked with Shipyard #9 in orbit over the Ishimura colony. The enormous explosion destroyed the Jade Rabbit, Shipyard #9, and approximately 56 assorted ferries, freighters, tugboats, and other craft, damaged another hundred ships including the light carrier CMA In Amber Clad, and killed more than 8,000 people. The attack was ultimately claimed by the Free Skies Army on August 16. 
The UNSC responded to the attack by deploying multiple battle groups to the colony, implementing strict inspection rules for non-government freighters, and installed an army on Ishimura. ONI, for its part, launched a retaliatory campaign against the perpetrators and effectively eliminated the Free Skies movement within three years.
==Insurrectionist organizations==
===United Rebel Front===
===Free Skies movement===
The Free Skies movement was originally a political action group that sought to enshrine a right of sovereignty to the upper atmosphere and orbital space around each planetary colony, with similar rights for space platforms and asteroid colonies. The movement appeared in the Outer Colonies in the 2460s and was relatively popular throughout the 2470s. Following the troubles of the 2480s and the violence of the early 2490s, the Free Skies movement fractured, with the more extreme elements of the movement founding the Free Skies Army (FSA) in 2497. The FSA claimed to desire the same goals as the original movement, but aimed to achieve them through bombings and other violence. 
The FSA carried out approximately 237 bomb attacks from 2499 to 2511, killing some 700 persons and causing significant damage to civilian shipping in the process. Notably, less than a dozen CAA spaceships were damaged by these attacks; effects on CMA and UNSC personnel were even less significant, with less than ten government personnel killed or injured. This changed when the FSA carried out their Ishimura bomb attack on August 8, 2511, using a nuclear device secreted aboard a civilian container ship. More than 8,000 people were killed in the attack, to say nothing of the 180 spaceships destroyed or damaged. The FSA claimed responsibility on August 16, 2511 and demanded the immediate withdrawal of CMA and UNSC space forces from the Outer Colonies. 
The UNSC response to the declaration was carried out by the Office of Naval Intelligence, under the broad auspices of Operation: SILVER SERPENT'S KISS. The operation was conducted from August 17, 2511 to January 13, 2514. In 880 days, ONI purportedly killed ever leader and senior member of the FSA and Free Skies movements, was responsible for the incarceration of some 40,000 Free Skies activists and the listing of the Free Skies movement as a terrorist organization, and made it known that any movement that accepted former Free Skies members would most certainly regret doing so. Additionally, while no party was ever identified, the movement and its offshoot also suffered several major hacking attacks that resulted in the loss of hundreds of millions of credits, confidential information of affiliated persons (which was then leaked to media organizations), and the deliberate destruction of records and documents by outside parties. While the UNSC never claimed responsibility for the apparent misfortune of the Free Skies movement in the 2510s, the conclusion of SILVER SERPENT'S KISS on January 13, 2514 coincidentally occurred on the same day as the suicide of the last spokesperson for the Free Skies movement. The Free Skies Army had disbanded in February 2513 and the Free Skies movement was effectively dissolved in January 2514.