Two events stand out from all other atrocities committed in the months following the massacre, both committed by the vengeful separatists.
The Alpha bombing
It had been the UEAF's plan to use the LMS massacre as an excuse to declare martial law and deploy marines to the planet to keep the peace.
Alpha convoy took off from Tokyo spaceport on Tuesday 24 May at 1900 hours, it was composed of five Vampire class troop transports each carrying 230 marines, including equipment and command staff. Alpha convoy's journey was only to take 36 hours after leaving Earth to arrive at the Lunar Majorus spaceport. The convoy's journey was without incident until 0300 on Thursday 26. A squadron of maintenance ships launched from the lunar majorus port with the pretext of guiding the convoy to land, each maintenance tug was about the size of a passenger jet and the marine Major saw no reason to be alarmed, it was after all just routine.
The Major was right, it was routine, except for the micro-nuclear explosives aboard each, when they docked with the transports they detonated their lethal cargo and eliminated it with leaving no survivors or even large pieces of debris, within minutes of the bombing UEAF high command recieved a message from a separatist cell made up of clips from speeches by Jonas Hite. Including his last.
WE ARE... A GREATER PEOPLE.... THE MOON IS OUR HOMELAND.... THE LUNAR PEOPLE... WILL NOT SUBMIT TO THE IRON FISTED RULE OF THE U.E... OR THEIR.... MILITARY... GAUNTLET KNOWN AS THE UNITED EARTH ARMED FORCES.
The message continued along these lines for another three and a half minutes before ending on a chilling note
PREPARE.... TO... DIE... DICTATORS....
The Hilburn Firestorm
The second largest city on the Moon, Hilburns Landing, named after the captain of the colony ship that landed there over 60 years previously. Hilburns Landing was the site of multiple UEAF arms storage and production facilities as the city was firmly established as a moderate political stronghold especially since whatever separatists there had been had fled the city for fear of their lives. It was precisely because of the separatists abandonment of the city that it was selected for the second vengeance strike by the separatists.
The arms factories had been given extra guards to protect them from a raid by separatist troops. This was to be completely useless as the separatists had no interest in stealing new weapons and taking them through the streets of a hostile city.
A private shuttle entered through the spaceport and stated to land as was expected, what was not expected was it leaping back upwards and deploying and heavy missile rack from its undercarriage and emptying 12 missiles into the arms facilities.
The resulting explosion wiped out the entire city, all 1.8 million inhabitants were vaporised in an explosion that was visible on Earth to the naked eye.