Mutiny of 2530

The Mutiny of 2530 was a violent insubordination carried out by assets under command in response to the latter's strategic withdraw from certain . With the CMA having been placed under the authority of the UNSC in 2525, disgruntled officers and NCOs of the organisation led like-minded subordinates in an attempt to seize several UNSC warships in drydock around the gas giant Eridanus IV, hoping to use them to provide some defence of vulnerable colonies, quickly leading to multiple firefights between UNSC personnel and the mutineers. UNSC forces were ultimately able to regain control of the situation after the deployment of the recently reestablished , and the surviving mutineers were imprisoned. News of the event was suppressed by the and the details would not officially become public until several years after the . The event did have an impact on the UNSC's strategic concerns, subsequently making efforts to hasten the full incorporation of CMA assets into its command structure, while also putting up at least paltry efforts to defend some Outer Colonies. 
==Background==
In November of 2525, following first contact with the Covenant, the UNSC placed the CMA under its direct authority, making official a process that had begun several years earlier as the CMA had proved ineffective at combatting insurrectionists in the Outer Colonies. The presence of personnel with rebel sympathies was a known issue within the CMA, and measures had been taken to counteract this, but large numbers of CMA personnel continued to be, at best, begrudgingly subordinate to the UEG and UNSC. 
Following the initial loss of Harvest and the subsequent campaign to retake it began, several other colonies were destroyed by the Covenant, often with little, if any, UNSC defence. The loss of the colony of , which had a mere three ships to defend it, was a focal point of backlash against the UNSC's strategy, with accusations of incompetence coming especially from CMA personnel. As 2529 rolled around, this trend seemed to continue. The loss of Verent early that year sparked calls among personnel to put more effort into the defence of Outer Colonies, but these calls seemed to fall on deaf ears. Regardless of whether or not it was true, UNSC High Command seemed to many to be implementing a strategy of withdrawal from the Outer Colonies in order to focus defence on the Inner Colonies and Earth. This was unacceptable to many in the CMA, most of whom hailed from Outer Colonies. 
UNSC/CMA forces had, up to this point, been using the Eridanus system as a staging point for operations in the Outer Colonies, with the moons and stations around the gas giant, Eridanus IV, serving as shipyards for ships in rearmament or repair. A cabal of CMA officers stationed at these posts devised a plan to seize control of docked UNSC vessels to use in what they hoped would be a proper defence of vulnerable frontier colonies. 
==The Mutiny==
At 04:28 on August 6, armed CMA personnel boarded and seized the , killing one crew member and wounding three others in the process. Similar successful assaults were subsequently carried out against the , UNSC Ashford, , and . Other attacks were either repulsed or turned into protracted firefights between the ships' crews and mutineers. Two operable vessels already under the command of the mutineers, the light cruiser CMA Vauxhall and frigate CMA Drummer engaged two UNSC ships that had been hastily sent to assist, the and the UNSC Inaros. The Inaros was disabled and the Magellan received critical damage to its slipspace drive that forced it out of the fighting. 
Within hours UNSC security forces were able to force most of the unsuccessful boarding parties into surrender, save for those on Ilmarinen Station and Hoss Station. The mutineers here were, while unable to seize any ships, able to take control of the stations' command centres and systems. They shut down the stations' logistical operations and repulsed several attempts by UNSC security to regain control. The small mutineer fleet had, by the end of the third day of fighting, successfully turned back UNSC attempts to land reinforcements on either station, but were incapable of providing any other substantial support.
==Aftermath==