Lagash

Lagash was an Outer Colony located at the very edge of human space. A largely lush and verdant world, Lagash was considered a priority candidate for settlement following its discovery, with the first colonists landing on the super continent of Krohari in December of 2452. While many of the original settlements were dedicated to local agriculture, the colony soon became home to various corporate interests looking to expand into the markets a new colony presented. These largely focused on shipping raw materials off-world to be processed deeper in human space, something that would play a large part in the colony's later financial troubles.
As the population of Lagash grew, it quickly became apparent that the economy was not growing at the same rate, rapidly leading to large scale poverty amongst the colonists. Economic hardships, along with years of mismanagement by both colonial and UEG government officials, would come to a head in the forms of protests, riots, and violence. This coincided with similar events throughout the Outer Colonies, and saw only minor attempts by the CMA to restore order, a prelude to the full-scale insurrection that would begin a few short years later. When the Insurrection began in full in 2494, armed groups on Lagash were quick to follow suit, overthrowing local municipal and state governments and rapidly taking territory from the colonial militias and CMA garrisons.
Though the various unaligned groups failed to take the capital of Tel Kadhigash and remove the planetary government, most of the planet's settled areas were largely under the control of the different secessionist forces. In 2513, the UNSC began a massive push into the Outer Colonies as part of Operation: TREBUCHET, motivated in part by the CMA's apparent inability to deal with the various insurgent groups, including Lagash. It wasn't long after TREBUCHET began that UNSC forces first landed on Lagash, first moving to secure Tel Kadhigash and the surrounding regions before proceeding to push into rebel-held territory. Despite initial successes, UNSC Army and Marine units began to stall and suffer mounting casualties as the rebels consolidated at fortifications that had been built years prior in preparation for such an event.
Combat operations continued unabated for years, as the UNSC's campaign accomplished very goals with any degree of permanence, the harsh policies of the UNSC expeditionary forces serving to push more colonists to the rebels, further escalating the conflict. Few on Lagash, rebel or UNSC, would learn of the destruction of the nearby Outer Colony of Harvest until mid-March, 2525, though knowledge of the alien hegemony responsible for it was kept a secret until it was too late. On April 12, 2525, a Covenant scout fleet, the Third Minor Fleet of Audacious Wrath entered the Uvres system and quickly engaged the UNSC naval presence, consisting of Lagash's native defense fleet and elements of the UNSC 3rd Naval Fleet. The Lagash Defense Fleet suffered heavy casualties, though the Covenant fleet was destroyed completely.
The Covenant returned only a few weeks later with a much larger force, the Eleventh Fleet of Righteous Invocation, which managed to deploy legions of ground troops who swiftly laid siege to the major population centers, doing battle with both UNSC forces and the rebels they had been fighting mere weeks before.
Category:Demons of Hope
Category:UEG Outer Colonies