Northern Brigade

The Northern Brigade also known as the 1st Northern 'Death' Brigade was a unit of the Forgotten Soldiers operating after the UNSC-GFS War. The unit was created by groups of Gilgamesh Free Armed Forces troops who escaped capture after the Battle of the Gray Reservoir. While many of the soldiers wanted immediate revenge on the UNSC, their leader, now-Captain Frank Thompson, recipient of the Cross for Military Virtue for his actions in the Battle of New Belgrade, preferred to wait and plan.
Over the next several months, with the UNSC's attention diverted to other resistance groups popping up, the unit, now named the Northern Brigade, numbering about 100 fighters, set up a coherent plan for how to fight back the UNSC. Rather than a military struggle, the Brigade would wage what was termed in internal documents an 'armed ideological war' aiming to turn the region into a ungovernable no-go zone for UNSC units. 
The unit launched its first 'ideological operation' in the spring of , its units attacking and destroying police stations and freeing those accused of political crimes. While the operation was an incredible success, catching their targets unaware and performing the prison breaks with only a few fighters wounded, the UNSC refused to divert military aid to combat the Brigade, as there were more pressing resistance groups deep within the GFS.
Over the next five years, the Brigade became integrated into the military structure of the Gilgamesh Underground State, their actions became increasingly harsh, with the overall aim of becoming ungovernable eventually forming into a more concrete goal: the complete removal of pro-UEG influence from their operating area. 
With the New Year's Bombings in , the Brigade was forced to cease operations in order to avoid being destroyed by . However, once the SPARTANs' operations were over, the Brigade began conducting low-level attacks, assaulting Terran Loyalist Party headquarters and ambushing militia and police units, until the Outer Colonies Crisis, during which they were absorbed into the newly reformed Gilgamesh Free Army.
==History==
===Formation===
===First Operations===
===Escalation and the Death Brigade===
===New Year's 2558===
===Low-level Operations===
===Outer Colonies Crisis===
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