The Colonial is a controversial news service and newsletter widely distributed throughout the Outer Colonies and some core worlds. Founded in 2517, Colonial writers have been accused of reporting propaganda and falsified reports with a pro-insurgent bias, as a result the service is very popular with Insurrectionists and their sympathizers. Segments[]Dystopia 89[]Etymology[]The name Dystopia 89 is in reference to the Harmony Uprising of 2389, a civil conflict that erupted on the fledgling Inner Colony after the massacre of Harmonians holding labor strikes by troopers of the UNSC Army. The uprising eventually served as a catalyst for the Inner Colony Wars that threatened to break apart humanity's early colonial expansion and nearly destroyed Earth culture. History[]Dystopia 89 is an infamous conspiracy theory segment that has been run by The Colonial since 2524. D89 gained widespread fame after publishing a piece in April 2526 accusing the Office of Naval Intelligence of falsifying the existence of the extraterrestrial Covenant and faking the Human-Covenant War to fabricate an excuse for the Earth government to increase its stranglehold over the Outer Colonies. Despite countless counterarguments and evidence provided to the staff of D89 of the Covenant's existence, their narrative regarding the Covenant and their devastating impact on human civilization continuously evolved throughout the war. By the end of the 2530s, the narrative of the war shifted to accusing the UNSC of implementing extensive drafts to increase their policing of unruly colonies. D89 also claimed that casualty reports coming from the Outer Colonies were grossly exaggerated, and that many "lost" colonies were in fact under the occupation of UNSC forces. Prior to the Fall of Reach, D89's narrative had taken a turn for the outrageous, claiming that ONI was exaggerating the Covenant's push into the Inner Colonies by using computer-generated models and special effects staged over a number of core worlds. By the end of the war, D89's claims had all but completely dissolved, but despite acknowledging the Covenant, the conspiracy lived on to continue pushing the argument of overestimated human casualty reports and include the revelation of the dubious morality surrounding the Spartan programs. On Every Street[] |
