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| - Operation: WHENUA was, ostensibly, a "humanitarian" mission, with the Interstellar Commonwealth deploying UNSC peacekeeping forces to Bahalo to prevent attacks on civilian population centres, ensure that medical and infrastructure aid was received and not squandered, and to protect local human-built infrastructure and resources. In theory, it was a peaceful mission to help their Unggoy neighbours. In practice, however, the UNSC had humanity's own interests at heart - Unggoy mining operations provided much of the raw materials pouring back to the colonies as humanity rebuilt and reoccupied their former homes, and the security of these resources was deemed a top priority by Secretary General Jerome Smithson, forming the basis of his campaign and his subsequent adminstration's focus on coloni
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| - Operation: WHENUA was, ostensibly, a "humanitarian" mission, with the Interstellar Commonwealth deploying UNSC peacekeeping forces to Bahalo to prevent attacks on civilian population centres, ensure that medical and infrastructure aid was received and not squandered, and to protect local human-built infrastructure and resources. In theory, it was a peaceful mission to help their Unggoy neighbours. In practice, however, the UNSC had humanity's own interests at heart - Unggoy mining operations provided much of the raw materials pouring back to the colonies as humanity rebuilt and reoccupied their former homes, and the security of these resources was deemed a top priority by Secretary General Jerome Smithson, forming the basis of his campaign and his subsequent adminstration's focus on colonial reconstruction rather than military defence. To this end, the rebuilt UNSC 30th Fleet was deployed to the Tala system to secure human interests, ONI advisors and Marine trainers and instructors deployed to train and arm a professional militia for pro-human factions, and otherwise ensure that the system was protected from Blood Covenant or Kig-Yar opportunists. Named by Admiral Brian Rawiri, Operation: WHENUA would later be hailed as a triumphant in inter-species relations, marking the first diplomatic outreach initiated by the UNSC towards another species, its name adopted for the wider conflict, and has since become one of the defining moments of recent Unggoy history, though not without controversy.
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