ONI File: Boundary Republic Population Status, 2559 CE

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SUBJECT: BOUNDARY REPUBLIC POPULATION STATUS, 2559 CE
AUTHOR: CAPTAIN FHAJAD-084
Regarding the population within the Insurrectionist 'government' of the colony of Boundary, it is only recently that we discovered it was not, in fact, glassed by the alien hegemony we knew as the Covenant. Rather, an alliance of Insurrectionist groups took over the planet, and in the chaos of the early years of the Human-Covenant War, any distress signals that may have been sent were far overshadowed by the threat of extinction.
What information can be gleaned is mostly from agents deployed to the planet or from interrogations of captured criminal or rebel leaders who have had dealings with them. The population of the planet is unknown, as there is no census to speak of. Generally, the 'government', the civilian section, headed by one President William Zawon, and the military, headed by Marshal Edward Garan, are not looked upon with any measure of trust by the population.
The government exerts its will on the people via local militias, who appear to have banded together into much larger alliances, the central government funding and equipping them. These local militias appear to generally be far more trusted than the government, more than likely a result of our belief that those citizens still loyal to the Unified Earth Government were either killed, imprisoned, or went into hiding after the rise of the Republic, leaving only Insurrectionist sympathetic citizens.
Although the people tend to distrust the government headed by President Zawon and Marshal Garan, the population, especially the younger generation, appear to be all too willing to fight and die for the independence of Boundary. Again, this is a result of two major causes. One, as discussed above, the general population is loyal to the ideals of the Insurrection. Two, the colony has not seen much war since its secession in 2527, leading the younger generation to have a very romantic idea of war and service, emphasized by various movies made by citizens that depicted the Insurrection pre Human-Covenant War in a very heroic light. This colonialistic attitude has only been reinforced after the Republic's rejection of the protocols laid out at the 2559 Independence Talks at Earth.
The population of Boundary is also well-armed. With the threat that their power could be destroyed at any time by the Unified Earth Government's return in the wake of the Human-Covenant War, it has become law that each household, for each able-bodied male, must have one rifle. This, according to our agents, was also a cost saving measure to allow the government to equip the militias further without having to worry about issuing rifles as well.
My final analysis to HIGHCOM is that, if the Unified Earth Government does indeed decide to attempt to recapture Boundary, they must be ready for a relatively protracted war, the majorly destructive part lasting about 1-2 months, and a guerrilla war for years after. I would recommend that HIGHCOM do everything in its power during those 1-2 months to completely destroy the Republic's military capability to stem the tide of the inevitable clandestine resistance.
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