Colony War

StubThis article is a stub, please help by expanding the articleThe **Colony War** was a bloody conflict between the United Colonies and the Freestar Collective that occurred from 2308 to 2311.

## Overview

The Freestar Collective began colonizing the planet Vesta in the Lunara system in 2307. This was opposed by the United Colonies, who in 2308 lodged a formal objection to the Vesta colony on the grounds that the Collective's expansion into a fourth star system was a violation of the Treaty of Narion. When diplomatic talks between the UC and Freestar broke down, the UC placed the Vesta colony under siege, resulting in the deaths of all of the colony's Freestar defenders. This marked the start of the Colony War.

A key early clash was the Battle of Niira. UC forces occupied the Freestar planet as a forward operating position, but Freestar forces repeatedly tried to reclaim it. The ensuing struggle devastated massive swathes of Niira's surface.

During the war, the UC city of Londinion, a major supply hub on Toliman II, was overrun by the largest Terrormorph outbreak ever recorded. UC Fleet Admiral François Sanon infamously ordered the bombing of Londinion's spaceport to stop the outbreak from spreading off-world, sealing off the city and trapping all of the citizens living there. This incident became known as the Terror of Londinion.

One of the bloodiest space battles of the war was the Battle of Cassiopeia above the planet Cassiopeia I for control of the Eta Cassiopeia system's resources. The UC Navy lost 12 ships and hundreds of personnel, including the UC *Dauntless*, where Sarah Morgan served as Chief Navigator. When the *Dauntless* lost its captain and executive officer, Sarah took command and pressed the battle against the Freestar ships despite the *Dauntless* having sustained serious damage. Most of the crew died, and only Sarah and a handful of survivors reached the escape shuttles and made it to relative safety on the surface of Cassiopeia I. After the battle, the UC Navy eventually returned to Cassiopeia I and rescued Sarah, but the rescuers assumed there were no other survivors of the *Dauntless* and inadvertently left some behind.

The conflict culminated in the Battle of Cheyenne in 2311. A flotilla of military and civilian Freestar ships used hit-and-run tactics to destroy a number of the UC Navy's major ships, ending the battle in a decisive victory for Freestar. Following the battle, both sides agreed that the war should be brought to an end, leading to the ratification of the Armistice, which ushered in a new era of peace and cooperation between the two powers. The Freestar Collective also demanded that the UC's active commanders in the conflict be tried for war crimes, and the UC obliged in the interest of peace. Commander Henry Durant, General Indira Rastogi, and Fleet Admiral François Sanon were tried, found guilty, and executed. In addition, the Collective court-martialed the 1st Cavalry Division of the Freestar Militia for disobeying ceasefire orders during the Battle of Niira; the unit's leader, Major Paxton Hull, and other surviving members were sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Both sides used mechanized combat platforms, or Mechs, throughout the Colony War. The Freestar Collective's mech forces, especially the elite 1st Cavalry Division, had a reputation for being significantly more proficient in combat than those of the United Colonies. However, the UC had established the UC Xenowarfare Division shortly before the war, and it was able to deploy trained, bio-engineered alien creatures known as Xenoweapons in battle which proved highly effective against Freestar infantry. As a result of the unprecedented lethality and destructiveness of Mechs and Xenoweapons in warfare, both types of weapons were banned by the Armistice.

A monument to UC soldiers who died in the war was built in New Atlantis outside the MAST Building. The Armistice Archives were also built in the city to securely preserve all information about mech engineering and xenowarfare in case of an emergency.

## Events

* Battle of Niira
* Terror of Londinion
* Battle of Cassiopeia
* Battle of Cheyenne

## Participants

### United Colonies

* UC Navy
	+ Fleet Admiral François "Vae Victis" Sanon
	+ Commander Henry Durant
	+ Commander Sarah Morgan
* UC Army
	+ General Indira Rastogi
* UC Marine Corps
	+ Colonel Kasarov
	+ Captain Myeong
* Red Devils
	+ Commander Vincent Woodard
	+ Major Hadrian Sanon
	+ Lou Saavedra
	+ Kaiser
	+ "Unit 99" Niira Siren and Brood
	+ Kreet Stalker Brood
* UC Xenowarfare Division
	+ Dr. Percival Walker
	+ Dr. Reginald Orlase
	+ Dr. Chin
	+ Dr. Hayden Wynn
	+ Dr. Paulson

### Freestar Collective

* Freestar Militia
	+ 1st Cavalry Division
		- Major Paxton Hull
	+ Vanna's parents
	+ Marshal Daniel Blake
	+ Maya Cruz
	+ Marco Graziani

## Gallery

### Videos

Starfield- The Settled Systems - Where Hope is Built
## References

1. ↑ Starfield - The Settled Systems
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bethesda Softworks for Starfield, The story so far, 15 August 2023
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Reddit: r/Starfield: Discord Server Q&A Full Transcript