[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cmdr DaeFaron [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cmdr DaeFaron [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Spartan1995324 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DarkestSeptagon [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Quantam Innies killed millions of people, often for no reason whatsoever. UNSC![/quote][url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Far_Isle]Read up.[/url][/quote]Show that poor deluded soul the truth...[/quote] Here is the truth about your "good guy" rebels. Not a few hotheads, the bulk of the ones publically known. [quote]In 2525, an insurrectionist attack on a nightclub resulted in the deaths of a number of innocent civilians as well as one Colonial Military Administration pilot, sending another into a coma.[/quote] [quote]The liner was attacked in 2524 by two unmanned orbital taxis sent by a human Insurrectionist organization above the planet Reach. The liner was just completing its load-in of more than 1,500 civilian passengers on a charter tour departing for Arcadia. Unfortunately, due to the amount of explosives that were packed into the two taxis and the ensuing explosion, the National Holiday was unable to get far enough away and was subsequently torn in half. The captain, while unable to maneuver, calmly directed other ships out of the path of the National Holiday before it dropped into the atmosphere of Reach, burning up the liner and killing all crew, personnel and passengers. The explosion was also large enough to burn away the hull paint of every other ship within a two kilometer radius. [/quote] [quote]Callisto boarded another merchant vessel. They were courteously allowed aboard; however, they found the cargo bay empty. The bay doors then opened and the boarding party was blasted into space. The merchant crew then swarmed into the Callisto, murdered the remainder of its crew, and gutted and replaced its computer system. On March 2, 2494, the battle group confronted the Callisto in the 26 Draconis System. The destroyers all fired six of their seven Ares missiles, and in response, the Insurrectionists maneuvered behind an asteroid, which it then detonated in the direction of the UNSC vessels using a nuclear warhead planted beforehand. The Buenos Aires was destroyed and the other two destroyers severely damaged. The entire bridge crew of the Las Vegas was killed or incapacitated, with the exception of Second Lieutenant Preston Cole, who was left unharmed. As the last remaining bridge officer, Cole took control of the Las Vegas. [/quote] [quote]On February 23, 2511, a member of the Freedom and Liberation Party detonated a commercial nuclear device, typically used for mining asteroids, in the Haven arcology. This bombing attack killed two million people and wounded 8.3 million. Millions more were expected to die due to cancers and other diseases caused by the radioactive fallout; the fallout was also predicted to cause birth defects for generations afterwards.[/quote] Now tell me, are those the kinds of people you wanna side with? You have two choices A: UNSC, might be strict, but won't randomly murder civilians for no reason at all. B: Rebels, trigger happy -blam!-tards who mass murder civilians left and right repeatedly. Who would you rather be governing you?[/quote] Reply to this. I DARE you. I've not seen a SINGLE person who says Rebels are "GOOD GUYS" respond to the question. Far Isle: Next to no information. Clearly it was far beyond the point of calming anybody down, or else the bombing wouldn't have happened. That Massacre: UNSC had one -blam!- ship, and was hardly a planned situation. 30 Covenant ships appeared out of nowhere, I forget the exact details but Whitcomb was damn sorry about leaving the rebels to die. Come on, rebel fanboy. I DARE you to justify the above events in my previous post. Justify the rebels murdering massive numbers of civilians for NO DAMN REASON.[/quote]But the freedom... "Give me liberty or give me death"! Seriously though... Incident 1: They need to send a message to the CMA. The CMA was the military branch of the CAA, which was taxing them heavily. The CAA wasn't listening to them. The UNSC themselves had to strip them of power because they didn't want to let go (during the Human-Covenant war). Incident 2: Uncalled for good sir (the attack that is). Every orgainization does thing they shouldn't. All of them. However peaceful talks simply weren't getting anywhere. They got fustrated. I'd a like a source though, interesting stuff. There has to be a reason, like there was for incidents 1 and 3. Incident 3: What did Cole do next? The Innies were probably going to let him live. They let UNSC military personnel live on the rubble, so why not let him live as well? Anyways, Cole just blasted the missles straight into their ship, abusing their willingness to have kept him alive rather than blasting the ship to pieces. Incident 4: There has to be a reason. In a war somebody has to gain SOMETHING out of that. They wouldn't have wasted a nuclear weapon on that. I'd a like a source. However if they did it for no reason at all... then my response is the same as incident 2. Far Isle: The nuking didn't need to happen. Never did. Nukes to quell riots is overkill. No pun intended. They could have ended up like Venezia. Problem is... if the UNSC willingly had admmitted defeat, it would have boosted Insurrectionist morale. Not good for their empire, eh? The Massarce: Conceeded good sir. There wasn't much they could have done...but the Rebels DID lend a hand. You got to give them that. Whitcomb however... [quote][url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Massacre_at_Eridanus_Secundus]Whitcomb, feeling his duty was to Earth, not the rebels, ordered an immediate retreat to slipspace, leaving the helpless rebels to their doom.[/url][/quote]Doesn't seem too sorry to me. I would say he did smart/logical thing, so point conceeded. I wouldn't say he felt bad though. Soldiers who are willing to fight for their country do it becasue they feel it's their duty. They don't feel too bad about letting the enemy die. Inusrrectionists have proved that they can lead stable governments, like Venezia and the Rubble. In fact, history shows that a bunch of rebels formed some of the most powerful/influential nations on earth... About the Visegard incident...they helped evacuate Madrigal, and then formed the Rubble. So they did some good, AND get along far better with our former enemies. So reality they are establishing better diplomatic relations then the UNSC is. Look at Venezia. Anways the UNSC as I said is too scared to let go. Where does fear lead? Let a wise little green alien answer that: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." - Yoda, The Phantom Menance. And that is exactly what the UNSC is doing because they are too scared to let go. [i]Suffering[/i]. I answered your points. Extend the courtesy to answer mine? They are in another post.