User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Ballastine Rebels

The Ballastine Rebels is a large group of insurrectionists from the Inner Colony world of Ballast. During the Great War, Ballast had been attacked by the Covenant but a small contingent of UNSC Naval vessels had managed to ward off the space attack and seriously cripple the ground assault. However instead of re-invading Ballast again and again, any Covenant ships within a 500 light-year radius had been called summoned by the Prophet of Truth to attack Earth. Similarly, the small and battered UNSC Naval Fleet and its ground forces withdrew and fled back to earth in aid of its defence, leaving Ballast alone and defenceless.

Ballast All Alone
The remaining people of Ballast, once a wealthly stepping-stone into the Outer Colonies, watched as the UNSC abandon them and watched themselves turn against each other. After seven months, the Ballastine's had formed into gangs along ethnic, regional, political and ideological lines. Entire building blocks were once fought after for shelter but now they were simply fought after to increase a gang's territory. Drugs, murder and rape were considered commonplace on the streets of Ballast.