Arcadian War

The Arcadian war was a campaign of conquest against the rebel army known as the New Arcadian Republic or NAR. The conflict was fought between the NAR, a small force of UNSC Marines and the mercenary army from Monarch Solutions who was funded and supported by the secretive Project X.

Occupation
Following the UNSC victory against the covenant during the first battle of Arcadia in 2531, the UNSC felt the planet was no longer strategically vital to the war effort and all but abandoned the planet. The major population centers were all evacuated. While many colonists went with the UNSC to the inner colonies, many more stayed behind. Traveling away from Pirth, the ruined capital city, and created a new farm based community called Abaskun. Though the colonists survived, they had no set government and only a small militia kept the peace and order. While they suffered attacks from bands of raiders, the colony suffered at its own hands. Neighborhoods banded together to form clans to assist each other economically and harm rival families and prevent trading with them. For a while the Militia tried to halt these blocks of trade, and prevent any aggressive actions. However after seven years, many of the militia squads turned into mercenaries for hire.

While the colonists continued to fight amongst each other, the major cities were left to the will of the wild life. Although these cities were not evacuated, many of them were still largely intact. With the UNSC occupied with fighting the covenant, survivors of the insurrectionists, who remained from the first battle of Arcadia, reached out to other cells. It was not long before thousands of rebels discovered the largely intact and abandoned world. With these cells came the charismatic Walter Tyler. An old military commander for the CMA, he rallied the rebel cells under one banner, the New Arcadian Republic. With supplies being brought in from cells all over the sector and neighboring sectors, the rebels quickly repopulated the abandoned cities as their new bases. The first city established was the former capital of Pirth. With the cities space port back in service, it provided an access point for more troops, and supplies to arrive.

To keep the local colonists happy and quiet, the new General Tyler, brokered a trade with the Community of Abaskun. With the orbit capabilities the NAR had and the large farms the civilians had they would be able to provide for each other. The community was quick to join the rebel's cause as they still held a bitter opinion of the UNSC after they abandoned them.

Since most of the planet is covered by dense jungles, since Arcadia had been colonized by humans, much of the planet still remained undiscovered. Curious about his new home, General Tyler had patrols sent out into the wilderness to look for anything unique. For a year and a half the NAR conducted these operations. During an early patrol in the first six months, the rebels located a UNSC military storage facility. Inside they found UNSC military gear made for the Arcadian defense troops. The base was located near the edge of explored territory and its still unsure what the gear was doing so far away from the population centers or any other location of value. Inside they found a dozen M808B Scorpion MBTs, forty eight M12 Warthogs. as well as UNSC weapons and infantry combat armor, enough to equip seven hundred men.

In the span of the eighteen months of exploring, the NAR discovered and established outposts at numerous UNSC military installations and six other cities across all the continents. The NAR also took over three ONI bases. Though nothing was found in the ONI stations, although the heavy concrete bunkers provided excellent protection from UNSC reprisal which arrived in 2542.