Mendelian Insurgency

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Previous:	Battle of Theta Ursae Majoris System
Concurrent:	Human-Covenant Conflict
Next:	Battle of Mendel
Mendelian Insurgency
Conflict:	Insurrection
Date:	August 5, 2515 - March 1, 2546
Location:	Mendel
Belligerents United Nations Space Command Mendelian Workers Army Commanders Brigadier General Martin Stillwolf Brigadier General Cosmo Hampton Rear Admiral Darren Cohen Samuel Cho Juliana Abbott Maya Astor Brandise Heitkotter Strength 5000 Troopers 100 Sailors 2000 Loyalists 200~ Vigilantes 1500 Veteran Combatants 20,000 Armed Combatants

"ONI's presence on Mendel is almost nil and the UNSC had never had a large garrison planetside until only a few years back. We've been unable to step in and, now, what was already an uncooperative Government has all but isolated itself from the UEG—secessionists are in control"

―Fluellen on the state of Mendel circa 2546

The Mendelian Insurgency, known to UWL/MWA sympathizers as the Mendelian Revolution, was a popular uprising deemed officially as "Insurgency" that was carried out on the planet Mendel. The conflict was spurred by the unpopular governance of the United Earth Government's Colonial Administration Authority, and the controversial death of Emory Astor, a founder of a self-proclaimed Socialist Party, the United Workers Left.

The duration of the Insurgency, which began August 5th of 2515, was exacerbated by the beginning of the Human Covenant War and the UNSC's inability to wage a larger Counter Insurgency planetside. With the demand of the armed forces already stretched thin, the response was to focus on the deconstruction of the leadership. When the UNSC lost the planet entirely, this necessitated a larger response. The highly contested planet would only see the end to the Insurgency with the advent of the Battle of Mendel in early 2546.

Prelude

The first century of Human colonization on Mendel was pockmarked with constant flubbing and mismanagement of populations, particularly with the notably independent Sudanite populous. While the UNSC and UEG had seen the conflict as a Insurgency, many supports of the UWL, and eventually MWA, saw the conflict as a necessary Revolution to safeguard their livelihoods. Internal DCS reviews constantly cited how CAA policy was creating a massive rift between the UEG and the Mendelian populous, to the point where even Nordanite citizens saw the injustice and began to turn on their own luxury in favor of better controlling the means of their labor.

There are commonly cited grievances by the UWL and MWA for the continued propagation of the conflict, which stems from the Astor Manifesto, wherein Maya Astor officially declared the UNSC as an enemy of the Mendelian people. The Manifesto was split into three sections, first being the re-ignition of Koslovic ideological proxies, as well as the Marxist belief of removing capitalist practice via proletariat revolution. The second citing the historical grievances of the Sudanite people, of which there were many. And third, Astor talks about the contested death of her father who died under suspicious circumstances in 2511. Astor released the Manifesto after she had spent four years organizing and planning the creation of the Mendelian Workers Army and their guerrilla campaign. The campaign began with the bombing of Platinum freighters in the port of Marchlight with the intention of blocking the port from being used for an extended period.

Astor Manifesto Outline

• Section 1: Call for Koslovic Ideals
  • The call for Revolution on Mendel in response for decades of UEG repression and aggression.
  • Analogy to similar suppression in Sol during the Interplanetary Wars.
  • Claims that such treatment would eventually lead to war; MWA chose to strike first.
  • Argument that such institutional corruption can only be rooted out by balancing government systems.

• Section 2: Historical Grievances
  • Grievance for the "forced" dissolution of the First Republic.
  • Grievance for "Concentration Camps" (UNSC Relocation Camps).
  • Grievance for Sudanite "Second-Class Citizen Status", and focus on Nordanite Infrastructure.
  • Grievance for controlling and morphing mining facilities and communities for corporate benefit.
  • Grievance for use of Emergency Management Powers.
  • Grievance for the refusal to raise the Basic Income Wage.
  • Grievance for Destruction of Voice Of Us, and delay of the construction of Spit.
    • This, Astor claims, made it difficult for communities to voice their frustrations more directly, and allowed for "outsiders" to represent them during a "manufactured" humanitarian crisis which crippled the Sudanite government.

• Section 3: Personal Grievances
  • Harassment of UWL members for decades
  • Mistreatment of First Republic Governor Agnis Tefft.
  • Conspiracy of the murder of Emory Astor (her father).

Astor would also go on to describe the detail of the Marchlight operation wherein she hoped to negatively effect the corporate interests who would be forced to slow production and lose profit, or ship the Platinum to smaller ports.