Kythira Bush War

"It reminds me of the days before the Great War in that our enemy is not going to hesitate to flatten a city just to get rid of a few hundred of our men."
- Carlos SmithThe Kythira Bush War, also known locally as the War of Resistance, was an almost 12 month-long conflict that took place on the planet of Kythira. 
The war is commonly accepted to be a sub-conflict of the Corporate War.
==Background==
In late 2561, Alliance Armaments was granted control over the planet of Kythira by the Galactic Alliance in order for them to be able to harness its resources and construct planetary facilities for the construction of weapons, munitions and vehicles for the Forefather War. Following this, Alliance Armaments was left to do as it pleased as the Alliance's attention was solely focused on the ongoing galactic conflict, and therefore the company began to exploit the planet and it's population harshly.
By 2563, Alliance Armaments had already been fighting a conflict against an increasing number of guerrilla insurgents across AA controlled planets, and Kythira had become a hotbed for smuggling of illegal arms and goods for this conflict. As a result, Alliance Armaments began a severe and brutal crackdown on all activities deemed "hostile" or "offensive", which, after a large-scale skirmish in the Chora region, escalated into a planet-wide conflict.
==History==
===Early War===
During the first months of the war, fighting was slow, sporadic and often times never evolved beyond localised skirmishes. Despite this, the Alliance Armaments Security Division saw itself immediately put on the backfoot as guerrilla insurrectionists continued to annihilate their supply lines. In a bit to turn this around, the authorities of Kythira ordered the raising of a Regional Enforcement Force, which was made up primarily of mercenaries, private security contractors and conscripts.
===Deepening Conflict===
Despite now having a large, actively-standing professional force in the field, Alliance Armaments suffered a series of major setbacks with over a quarter of the planet's rural areas falling under the control of insurgent forces. The entire Chora region had, by July, fallen to the Chora Regional Defense Force, and the Kythiran Popular Front had taken control over several key resource mining facilities and armament production facilities, allowing them to create and distribute their own arms and munitions while hurting the AA's profits. In addition, guerrilla attacks had made land-based convoys and troop movements costly and risky, making the security forces reliant on aerial insertion tactics. To assist the locals, the Anti-Corporate Front, an organisation that was actively fighting against Alliance Armaments on other worlds, began smuggling in heavy arms and armoured vehicles. 
The Office of Naval Intelligence deployed the Spartan-II Rose-788 to the planet on the 26th of September in order to secretly undermine the insurgency and give the rapidly-losing security forces a chance to regroup. 
===Final Engagements===
Despite having pushed the AA Security forces to the brink, the insurgency began to stall as the S'southi continued to drive the Galactic Alliance deeper into UNSC space, resulting in the GA finally taking note of the conflict and funding the Alliance Armaments campaign against the Insurgents. However, it would not take long for the GA to be pushed back yet again by the S'southi, and Alliance Armaments evacuated all forces and employees from Kythira, effectively ending the conflict.
==Aftermath==
The sudden withdrawal of Alliance Armaments from the planet resulted the planet gaining its nominal independence, with the new code of laws and the constitution being enforced by the KPF and CRDF despite there being no real established government on the planet. This would eventually change with the founding of the Free Kythiran Republic.
The S'southi were aware of the flight of the Galactic Alliance and the AA from Kythira and therefore did not attack the planet with their armada, rather a scouting force was deployed to the planet to determine it's strategic value whilst the armada continued to cut deeper into Human space. The scouting party did not return from Kythira, however the S'southi were far too busy engaging the Alliance to care.
Spartan-II Supersoldier Rose-788 was captured shortly after the conclusion of the conflict after being abandoned on the planet by Alliance Armaments during their retreat, exposing ONI involvement in the conflict.
==Participants==
===Kythiran Popular Front===
The Kythiran Popular Front, often mistakenly referred to as the Kythiran Peoples Front, was a guerrilla-based insurgent force that waged conflict across the planet of Kythira against the Alliance Armaments Security Forces. They were not only heavily armed but were extremely efficient at utilising the planet's terrain to their advantage in combat situations. Their leader was a man who used the false name "Carlos Smith".
===Chora Regional Defense Force===
The Chora Regional Defense Force, referred to by some as Konstantinos Division, was an insurgent group based within the Chora region of Kythira. In stark contrast to the Kythiran Popular Front, the CRDF practiced conventional warfare and were able to do so effectively due to the high level of support they enjoyed within the Chora region, which was practically completely under their control from the onset of the conflict. Their leader, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, later became the first chairman of Kythira.
===Anti-Coporate Front===
The Anti-Corporate Front was an organisation that waged warfare against Alliance Armaments across several other systems and frequently raided supply convoys belonging to the company. Having a small fleet of captured and refitted security-grade vessels and a large surplus of captured AA equipment, the ACF proved extremely valuable in supplying the insurgents on Kythira with heavy weapons and armour.
===Alliance Armaments===
Alliance Armaments, also known as AA, The Corporation or simply Alliance, was an extremely rich company that supplied the Galactic Alliance with most of it's arms and vehicular needs during the Forefather War. They fielded a highly professional private security force that enforced the AA's control over planets such as Kythira while escorting and protecting convoys from S'southi and pirate raids. By the onset of the Kythira Bush War, the AA's security forces were stretched thin across GA space and engaged on several other worlds already making major reinforcements to the planet impossible.
Alliance Armaments was not afraid of committing atrocities in order to maintain control over Kythira, with almost 50,000 civilian casualties attributed to the AA's security forces alone.
===Office of Naval Intelligence===
The Office of Naval Intelligence, while not officially involved, deployed assets to the planet to both monitor the war and undermine the capabilities of the insurgents. The Spartan-II Rose-788 was one such asset, however she was left behind by the withdrawal of Alliance Armaments and later captured by the newly established Kythiran Free Republic, proving the CRDF and KPF's suspicions of ONI involvement.
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