Laguna War

> "The heavens wept as fiery wrath rained upon tranquil golden fields, the thunderous echoes of destruction drowned the dreams of men. Molten Winds blowing mountains like leaves, in the wind... A great sorrow no crying can express. A failure that topples all our success." - *An Ode to the Rebellion*
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The Laguna War was a brief but series of savage conflicts in the UCSS limitrophe, in the aftermath of the Laguna Incident, between rebellious factions and the Martian-led Confederal Outer Territories Colonial Marine Corps. Eventually, the UCSS resorted to brutally squashing the colonies to contain the uprisings.

## The Laguna Incident

> "...Where once stood a beacon of resistance and dreams, now remains only an enigmatic void, erasing the echoes of defiance and leaving behind unanswered questions that will haunt the pages of time." - *The Secessionist Wars - Laguna, a Modern Roanoke, by Prof. Melange Maunoury*
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Laguna was a Mid-Limitrophe colony of intrepid settlers, which had established a economically-prosperous community. While outwardly a beautful world of blue lagoons, cenotes and verdant large karst caverns. Life on Laguna was challenging with a temperate yet unstable and harsh climate and easty to overlook biological dangers, like its microscopic life which caused anaphylactic shock when inhaled. However limited colonization in areas where favorable winds or in high latitudes kept the dangerous organisms away, still took place. Despite these harships the Settlers preserved, their spirits fuelled by the dream of creating a new home among the stars.

However, as time went on, a growing discontent began to fester within the colony. The settlers felt increasingly marginalized by the UCSS-Government that ruled over them from Earth. Their pleas for autonomy and representation fell on deaf ears, as the distant leaders prioritized their coreworld interests and corporate agendas. Under the Laguna Freedom Fronts guidance, the settlers organized a rebellion, determined to overthrow the oppressive regime that held them captive. Due to the incompetence of the local Confederal Government under Dr. Alan Lundquist, who had feared set-backs in his political career, should his handling of the local malcontents be made public, the UCSS was unable to combat the now-defacto ruling power of the Planet -***the Laguna Freedom Front***-

When the UCSS secret services learned of the planned (peaceful) rebellion by the secessionists, a StellaSec black ops operation was send to "take care" of the Secessionists and remove Dr. Alan Lundquist (which had become a suspect of arming secessionist forces). However quick reaction by the secessionists, caused the destruction of the StellaSec thugs.

However, the Earth-based leaders, alarmed by the rebellion's audacity, had a contingency plan in place. The next events that had taken place could only be described as madness, as the colony was massacred seemingly overnight by horrid abominations, however this baseless "Horror Story" can only be inferred from alleged leaked sources, which should, due to the senstive topic of the Laguna Incident, not be taken as stated facts. With the rebels confidently confirmed to be dead, the UCSS forces firebombed the whole planet.

In the aftermath, as the dust settled and the devastation became apparent, a haunting silence fell over Laguna. The rebellion had been quashed, and the Earth-based leaders reclaimed their control over the shattered colony. UCSS news outlets quickly obscured the Incident as a pirate incursion gone wrong, when the local terraforming devices were missused by the attackers. However while readily believed by most of the Inner colonies population (as Laguna was seen as another backward colony in no-mans-space), the sudden "vanishment" of the Lagunan colonists caused heavy discontent in other limitrophe colonies. The dead silence and dissmisve attitude of UCSS leadership, spiraled the situation out of control, leading to further uprisings.

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## Limitrophe Uprisings ***"The Children's Revolution"***

> "...Such an act marked Sicyon for destruction. It is why its commanders ordered its destruction to mark the end of the Laguna War. It was a message that there would be no place for the rebels to retreat, to hide." - *Laguna War Essay by Petrelle Nicks*
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> The long simmering tensions between several colonies in the Limithrope and the UCSS, had finally boiled over. While many saw the Laguna Incident as a tragic accident or even a exciting mystery, for the people of the anterior systems it was just another act of long acts of tyranny enflicted onto them by the UCSS.
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> Quickly dormant radical movements re-emerged, their swift actions enabled by decades of pre-existing "under the nose" organizations. The insurgents demanded a better way of life and a galaxy of tolerance, the movements were especially popular among the youth of Limithrope, earning itself the title of "The **Children's Revolution**".
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> **The Confederal Outer Territories Colonial Marine Corps** already having been deployed in the sector, due to the alleged pirate incursion on Laguna, executed a preventive strike by bombing the rebel strongholds of Mavarannahr & Invictus, beginng a short campagin to erase the hideouts in Invictus' deep ice ravines and the unauthorized craftyards of Mavarannahr. While caustilities by the Corps reached high levels during the pacification of the harsh environment of Invictus, Mavarannahr fell quickly as its the local government still openly supported the UCSS Government, encourged by the ruthless pestering of Commander Sato-Jia, governmental figures allowed for a quick policing action to flush out secessionist forces.
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> Rear Commander Shaozeng Sato-Jia, who had been tasked with overseeing this operation, received great applause by Central Command, for his quick-thinking and thoughtful pursuit of the local rebels.
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> Following a quick succession of military strikes on deeply entrenched underground hideouts in various hostile solar enviroments such as asteroids or sterile rocky moons.
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> The combined forces of the Secessionists were forced to retreat and reorganizing themselves in orbit, near the rich world of Sicyon, where local secessionists and the the infiltrated colonial government had placed the planet under martial law as a pretense to capture high-ranking hostages to negotiate a peace deal.
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> Unwilling to cause another Secessionist War should the Fifth Alliance be allowed to rebuild and inspire other uprisings, Sato-Jia and his forces prepared an first strike against overhelming secconist numbers and quickly crushed the rebels, however sacrificing most of the civilian population and hostages, however a small Espatier reconnaissance squadron was able to save a few captives and much of the stolen assets, held by the Fifth Alliance.
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