Not even the threat of total annihilation was enough to cause the factions of humanity to unite totally. There was to be sure moments where Insurrectionist forces of every stripe would fight alongside their supposed oppressors in the UNSC, notably during the Battle of the Rubble in 2535 and the Battle of Psi Serpentis in 2543. Yet even in the face of the Covenant's genocide Insurrectionist forces refused to join their fellow humans in anything but temporary arrangements, often returning to armed conflict as soon as the Covenant threat was less immediate.

In the years prior to the Human-Covenant war, there were dozens of small Insurrectionist factions, most of them confined to a single system or even a single planet. The largest of these factions was United Rebel Front, led by a triumvirate of UNSC turncoat flag officers; General Howard Graves (FMR UNSCA), General Martina Milano (FMR UNSCAF) and Admiral Andrei Sokolov (FMR UNSCN). The URF at it's prime was capable of large scale actions against the UNSC, with several Outer Colony worlds all but declaring for it. The URF was crushed by the increasingly empowered ONI during the Human-Covenant War, splitting into two factions. The self-purported true URF was lead by Dr Anton Schein and it's stronghold of Talitsa was purged in August of 2555. The new URF, led by the surviving Admiral Andrei Sokolov, pledged it's fleet to the NCA and was absorbed sometime after 2556.

During the postwar years the New Colonial Alliance rose to power, fueled by resentment aimed towards the UNSC for abandoning several Outer Colony worlds to the Covenant in favor of protecting the more strategically important inner colonies. The NCA is led by the notorious Admiral Mattius Drake, a former UNSC Admiral who made a name for himself leading daring actions behind Covenant lines to relieve besieged human worlds. Considered a firebrand by UNSC High Command, Admiral Drake and his battlegroup disappeared in 2549, presumed destroyed by the Covenant. It was in only in January 2553 that the UNSC discovered that not only had Admiral Drake survived, he had founded the NCA and led it.

The date is April 3rd, 2558 and the UNSC is imperiled once more. With growing resentment against it and it's stranglehold over all aspect of the UEG, something has to be done. With ONI being reoriented towards external threats no matter how much they may resist it, the role of fighting the internal threat falls to a new agency created in the closing days of the Human-Covenant War. The brainchild of Colonel James Ackerson, the brave men and women of the Military Intelligence Bureau fight to secure the homefront. These are their stories.

-Hello all, been awhile since I've been on this site, trying to get back into it all. This is a plot bunny that's been bouncing around my head since a few months after Halo 4 came out and now it's time to actually write it. This series aims to explore the murkiness of the UNSC and the conflict between humans that the S-II project was originally conceived to fight. It's going to get pretty dark pretty fast, with lines being crossed on all sides.