Datasea Insurgency

The **Datasea Insurgency** was a human-supremacist terrorist faction and paramilitary organisation, known by its supporters as the **Rebellion**, based on Nikrontri, founded by Lord Muk to oppose the Ariphius Confederacy and the rule of Intelligence. During the Datasea War, the Insurgency was allied with the Regime and received weaponry and funding smuggled on the black market, with the help of the Imperious Order investors of the United Systems Company who served Genesis. The funding allowed the Insurgency to orchestrate frequent terror attacks and covert operations in an uprising against the government, in an effort to collapse the Ariphius Council and destroy the datasea and the Confederacy from within.

The Datasea Insurgency became a powerful anti-government force through the Regime's funding and allying itself with other rebel groups and crime families in Nikrobiru City. The Neriabois family was a major sympathiser of the Insurgency, funding terror attacks and supplying intelligence to the Insurgency through the Covert Intelligence Network, remaining uncharged by taking advantage of connections with Congress delegates and corruption in law enforcement agencies.

## Organisation

Lord Muk, a lord of the Regime, acted as *de facto* ruler of the Insurgency and, in 3GE 951, united numerous gangs and mercenary groups into the Datasea Insurgency, establishing an illegal paramilitary group, conducting terrorist attacks and smuggling operations, led by an unofficial executive body of influential insurgents, many of which affiliated with the Imperious Order.

The Order maintained the secrecy of the Datasea Insurgency and established a high-profile, significant spy network in Nikrobiru City, affiliated with the Red-Merc Brokers and other mercenary information brokers, providing secrecy and extensive information to the Insurgency. Leading individual offensive gangs, especially in the Bazaar, were Muk's made men, a group of select loyalists who possessed extensive authority over the Datasea Insurgency and oversaw black market operations, especially those hidden within official corporate commerce.

## History

### Origins

Since Intelligence was created in the First Galactic Era, protests against its reign took place frequently and anti-Confederacy groups existed, but lacked the force to make change. For the millenium of the Ariphius Era, the Ariphius Confederacy remained the galaxy's dominant state, with nothing to contend for its power. It was not until 3GE 901, when Genesis returned after being replaced by Intelligence in the First Galactic Era, when a state was able to potentially compete for dominion. Genesis reorganised the Fractured Regime, an anti-Intelligence political faction, into the new Regime, and its artificial genius combined with the other pro-Regime sympathisers scattered across the galaxy, allowed the new Regime to rapidly gain power. In 3GE 950, Lord Muk, who served the Regime, united many of the scattered gangs on Nikrontri into the Datasea Insurgency - an ally of the Regime in the Confederacy's heart.

### Datasea War

In 3GE 972, the penultimate year of the Datasea War, the Regime tasked the Datasea Insurgency with the dangerous task of assassinating members of the Ariphius Council, to not only endanger the stability of the Ariphius Confederacy's government, but to acquire the conduits, artificial enhancements possessed only by the Councillors that, when used, could manipulate and control the datasea significantly. Frank Neriabois, an insurgent mercenary and youngest member of the Neriabois family, murdered Ariphius Councillor and director of the Corporate Trade Alliance, Henri Rou, in Nikrobiru City on Nikrontri, and delivered Rou's conduit to Lord Muk. Detective of the Ariphius Security & Enforcement Bureau, Nex Sarionté, quickly discovered the Insurgency's plan, but not before a second Councillor was killed, Sarvain Taraeus, baron director of the Taraeus Corporation, by his wife, Hinya Serren Taraeus, the secret Serpent of the Imperious Order.