Kyton Rebellion

Rebellion
In 3252, 4 years after the founding of the colony of Kyton, a group of colonists began to grow discontent with the government of Earth, and decided to rebel. Within 2 months, the newly named Kyton Liberation Movement had gathered the support of the entire colony, including their fleet of 12 defending warships and 24,000 troops. In addition, they struck a bargain with the Kly-Ras Pirates operating out of the system's asteroid belt, gaining use of 7 more warships. A response force was quickly sent by the United Earth Defense Command, composed of the 96 remaining warships of the fleet, as well as 150,000 ground troops.

Space
The UEDC taskforce arrived near orbit of Kyton within 1 week of the rebellion's beginning, and were quickly fired upon after calling for the rebels to surrender. The battle in orbit lasted 2 hours, with 16 of the total 19 mixed rebel and pirate ships destroyed, at the cost of 7 UEDC vessels. The last KLM ship, the carrier Callisto, was boarded and recaptured by Phoenix and Talon Squads of the Assault Infantry, and the 2 surviving pirate ships fled towards the asteroid belt with 12 UEDC ships in pursuit.

Land
After the fleet broke through the KLM fleet in orbit, a ground assault force was landed, composed of 150,000 UEDC soldiers from across human space. The force was split into 3 divisions, which quickly secured the planet's 3 major cities, killing 15,000 KLM troops and driving the rest back to the smaller towns scattered around the planet. Across the following 12 days, the majority of these locations were captured by UEDC forces, with the total death toll having risen to 21,000 KLM soldiers and 6,745 UEDC troops. The 3,000 remaining KLM troops, as well as well over 20,000 other rebel personnel, had retreated to a heavily fortified bunker complex, containing a number of assorted armored vehicles and aircraft. This complex (designated "Echo Command"), was the site of the largest battle of the war on Kyton, as the rebel forces were able to field 372 armored vehicles and 90 aircraft that they had secretly built, modified, stolen, or captured from the UEDC garrison. The siege of this base took 7 weeks, with more rebels arriving to reinforce the defenders, swelling their numbers by an additional 45,000, along with 7,000 of the remaining Kly-Ras pirates.