Operation Justice

During Operation Justice, the UNMC was tasked with retaking the colony of Justice whose government was overthrown in a social coup supported by the Socialist Progressive Peoples. The number of marines peaked at 240 000 active combat Marines and over a dozen combat warships, resulting in the second largest conflict fought, but still not to the scale of The Orthis War. Eventually both sides withdrew after the usage of nuclear weaponry, devastating the population's infrastructure and leading to the establishment of the Stellar Accords.

The primary colony of Justice suffered from a SPP-led coup, resulting in overthrowing the UN-supported government and the installment of a pro-SPP regime. The United Nations Government wasted no effort in mobilizing and deploying a massive task-force. The task-force being solely dedicated with retaking the colony from SPP forces. The SPP also not desiring to lose the opportunity to get their hands on a rich colonial world deployed their own task-force, resulting in a major engagement between the two super-powers. The Operation was extremely bloody, most notably for the civilians caught in the crossfire, as the Interstellar Life Rights Council had not yet formed the Stellar Accords.

The UNMC was already gaining a sour reputation among colonies due to The Orthis War. There was also a deep concern for the colonies by veteran officers. They foresaw Justice as the second Orthis War and therefore illegally permitted groups of marines off the record to fight unrestricted, regardless of civilian life caught on the battlefield, in order to prevent such a disaster from occurring in UN history a second time.

The end of the conflict was the usage of nuclear weapons and withdrawal of both of the SPP and UNMC forces after years of battle. The conflict failed to see a winning side with most of the colony now in ruins and deemed unhabitable and unusable. After the full withdrawal, a humanitarian relief force from the Interstellar Life Rights Council was assembled and said to have been sent to aid and recover civilians left in the aftermath. In the end the media had blown over the incident and forgotten it. The relief force was eventually disbanded and the planet left on its own. The disaster quickly became the first rallying call for a rise to action with the belief of 'Fend for ourselves' mentality.