Colonial Insurgent Army

The Colonial Insurgent Army was an organization. Formed in by officers of the defunct , by its high point in , the organization had nearly half a million fighters under arms, and many supporters on the few surviving . However, with the advent of the , the organization began a rapid decline, however, fighters of the Insurgent Army were responsible for the deaths of SPARTAN-IV operators.
However, in , with the fall of to the , the headquarters of the organization was also destroyed, and with the loss of morale and organization, the member cells of the Insurgent Army fell apart, however, there were still continuation organizations in the 2560's, formed by officers from the defunct Insurgent Army.
==History==
===Formation===
The Colonial Insurgent Army's roots were in the fall of the infamous organization, the , in . With the effective destruction of the URF, and without the leadership of the Generals, the remaining member cells were scattered and disorganized. Due to this, over the course of three years, many of the rebel cells left their bases behind, and headed to the colony of . 
In , in the back room of a bar in , rebel officers, all of whom had become dissatisfied with perceived inaction against the , the officers agreed to form the Colonial Insurgent Army, an organization with the purpose of relentlessly waging war against the UNSC, with the men under their command as the first members of the group.
===Growth===
===High Point===
===Decline===
===Continuation===
==Overview==
===Command Structure===
===Decorations===
Although each Insurgent Army unit had its own decorations and honors for its fighters, the one award officially instituted by the organization's high command was the Order of Patriots, instituted in , the effective equivalent to the . The Order of Patriots was instituted to, in the words of the Insurgent Army's command on "...to award acts of extreme gallantry against all enemies of colonial independence and those who would seek to take the liberty from those who have earned it by blood or otherwise".
Through the three years the award existed, there were only recipients, six of whom were given the award posthumously. As there was no medal or ribbon for recipients of the order, the only evidence of who received it was either a written or verbal message from the high command on to the fighter personally, or, in the case the fighter was dead, to the unit as a whole.