Carver's Folly

"The war with the United Nations Space Command has ended. The forces of independence have triumphed."

- The radio transmission proclaiming rebel victory

survives. An unthinkable proposition. Gaze through the looking glass into a world that very well could have been. In, the government of  became increasingly draconian in their laws to prevent rebellion, the  and recent conflicts still fresh in the minds of the authorities.

These tensions came to a head in, when the government instituted martial law and ordered that all private firearms be confiscated. In response, much of the forces on the colony refused to follow the orders, and, along with the citizenry, set about overthrowing the administration, who called upon the  to send troops to halt the uprising.

By the time forces arrived, the  had prepared for a long, drawn out guerrilla war, which the reclamation turned into. When the proposition to nuke the colony and be done with the mess was brought up, the decision was rejected almost immediately. And so the war for dragged on, until, when the , with many already dead, and the total increasing daily, decided to withdraw from the planet, leaving the rest of the  forces a steady base from which to launch their attacks.