Victorian Massacres

"In a dastardly attempt to kill us from within, the UNSC or the dictators draped in rebel clothing, the New Colonial Alliance, had made sure that some of our medical supplies were contaminated, leading to the deaths of many rebel soldiers undergoing treatment for their wounds. Henceforth, I hereby declare that all loyal units of the Victorian Independent State are permitted to neutralize the threat that citizens who are loyal to these organizations pose to us, by any means necessary."

- Colonel Nathaniel Wright's order that initiated the Victorian Massacres

The Victorian Massacres were a series of so-called 'ideological cleansing' actions orchestrated by the underground Victorian Independent State under the command Nathaniel Wright from to. The actions were in response to an attempt by an unknown party to kill off the rebels by having them come into possession of contaminated medical supplies in. After the death of almost all the rebels undergoing treatment with the captured medical supplies, Wright, suspecting the or  was responsible, sent out an order to expunge colonial citizens suspected of loyalties to either organization by any means necessary.

This order led to the deaths of an estimated one thousand citizens of in various massacres before Wright called a halt to the campaign in 2557, and irreversibly turned public opinion against the Independent State and its fighters.