Antebellum Incident

The Antebellum Incident was an event that occurred in early Imperial Year 9995 on the sky island of Antebellum. Antebellum had been an important supply base to the ECHO forces in the Aurora Field and was to hold the Pillar Alliance advance so that the nearby fortress of Luna Three could prepare adequately for hte oncoming assault. The Pillar Alliance Admiral in charge of taking Luna Three,, decided to complete ignore Antebellum and instead by-passed the sky island completely, leaving Antebellum cut off from supplies and starved in the middle of enemy-conquered territory. Within two weeks, the bases supplies ran thin and the ECHO soldiers stationed began to loot their own citizens, which caused open rebellion on the sky island.: Admiral of the Pillar Alliance broadcast notable scenes from the revolt involving ECHO soldiers gunning down civilians across the entire world, defaming the Estellion Sky Empire. The incident caused citizens throughout the empire to began to doubt current progression of the war, which citizens were lead to believe had been going in favor of the empire. Of the course of the two months that occurred from the beginning to the end of the incident, eighty-percent of the population had been lost to starvation or conflict, and the remaining citizens were in a state of anarchy. Alliance soldiers were finally sent in to suppress the situation and the incident ended with the execution of the Crystal Seer, Bimil.