The Colonial Protectorate is a Human rebel faction with roots in a nother rebel faction originating in the twenty-fourth century. It was the main nemesis to pro-UNSC forces during the Splinter War; by the start of said war, it had amasssed roughly 350,000 militamen, ranging from civillians that took in the Protectorate's radical beliefs to ex-United Nations Space Command special forces operators that have also been strongly swayed in the depressing times following the Human-Covenant War. In addition, the Protectorate had concocted a fleet of 250 spacefaring vessels; this included one destroyer, three frigates, two corvettes, several once abandoned assault craft, and hundreds of modified armed and unarmed civillian vessels ranging in size from twenty-five meters to two-hundred meters. It ha