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| - The Gilgamesh Free State was an Insurrectionist secessionist government on the colony of Gilgamesh. Initially established in 2501 as the Gilgamesh Free Army, it was composed mainly of Colonial Military Administration personnel who had been separated from the CMA after the organization's involvement with the Insurrection went public. Quickly incorporating other small rebel groups, by 2524, the organization had control over many of the frontier settlements on the colony, and was rechristened as the Gilgamesh Free State in 2525. With the Human-Covenant War diverting the attention of the United Nations Space Command elsewhere, Gilgamesh became almost completely lawless, and the GFS began expanding, coercing the various criminal syndicates into working to keep order within the Free State's new
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| - The Gilgamesh Free State was an Insurrectionist secessionist government on the colony of Gilgamesh. Initially established in 2501 as the Gilgamesh Free Army, it was composed mainly of Colonial Military Administration personnel who had been separated from the CMA after the organization's involvement with the Insurrection went public. Quickly incorporating other small rebel groups, by 2524, the organization had control over many of the frontier settlements on the colony, and was rechristened as the Gilgamesh Free State in 2525. With the Human-Covenant War diverting the attention of the United Nations Space Command elsewhere, Gilgamesh became almost completely lawless, and the GFS began expanding, coercing the various criminal syndicates into working to keep order within the Free State's new territory. In 2535, the GFS joined the United Rebel Front, whose member organizations aided the Free State by supplying equipment and factory machinery to outfit the Free State Armed Forces, as well as advanced training on various rebel-controlled planets for specialized personnel. This was augmented by cooperation with some the larger criminal syndicates by the GFS, the former helping smuggle equipment to the latter, with the latter in return legitimizing them as local government authorities and permitting them to continue their operations, so long as they stayed within guidelines set by the Free State. When the UNSC began retaking rebel-held worlds, starting with defeating the Victorian Independent State in 2553, and the Glabetovan People's Republic in 2554, the GFS mobilized its military reserves and militia units to counter an expected invasion. Taking pointers from survivors who had escaped the defeats of the VIS and GPR, the GFS prepared accordingly, and in May 2555, the UNSC attacked. For nearly a year, the UNSC attempted to force the GFS to surrender, however, they were met with fierce resistance, and in April 2556, with war casualties mounting and effective control over captured territory near impossible, the UNSC decided to withdraw from the planet.
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