Insurrection (Labyrinth Canon)

All civil wars feature, if they are not caused by, chaotic social divisions between ideologies - whether political, diplomatic, philosophical or religious. It is also true that civil wars feature particating factions motivated by a shared background or a set of similar beliefs. In this case, the Insurrection has been true to both trueisms - with colonists rapidly expanding outward away from Earth at a rate of several new colonies a year, and increasing isolation from the oversight and influence of the centralised Unified Earth Government. As colonists forged new cultural ties to the worlds they inhabited, discovered and adopted new beliefs, and increasingly came to depend less on colonial aid from Earth, it is not surprising that conflict would flare up, especially among the frontier worlds. That it spread to even the established Inner Colonies is a mark of just how divided human society had become, not helped by the continued well-meaning but inept and often corrupt interference of Colonial Administration Authority officials in matters that were often far removed from the corporate-style offices they inhabited.