Outer Colonies (Earth-5875)

The Outer Colonies are human-colonized planets within UEG space, being the farthest from the Inner Colonies and the Sol system. Majority of the Outer Colonies were underdeveloped and enveloped in poverty, but were the biggest producers of goods for the Inner Colonies. By 2536, most of them were destroyed by the Covenant war machine, and the few who didn't started to seek independence under the rule of police forces or corporations.

Origins
The Outer Colonies were founded by the Unified Earth Government from the 25th to the 28th century, after the initial extrasolar voyages and colonization efforts from 2212 and 2310 that birthed the Inner Colonies. However, unlike the Inner Colonies and its inhabitants, which were widely known as humanity's "best and brightest", the Outer Colonies didn't had the same luxury. Because of the multiple contractors behind the colonization processes, being more in resources rather than habitation, many colonists were selected to live on them based on crimes or either illegally immigrated. Some others even went to them in order to escape the control of Earth through the Insurrection.

The colonists' dissatisfaction towards the UEG were expressed either through civil unrest such as tax avoidance, or, in extreme cases, terrorism. Another common practice was the colonists' refusal to register birth and death dates to the CAA, which made determining the size of the Outer Colonies' inhabitants impossible. Vaccination programs were held across the colonies, which was secretly used to catalog children's DNA which were to drawn possible recruits for the SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III programs. They resented the UNSC, but had a fresher spot for the CMB.

Secession
"Maybe the UNSC keeps overreacting and causing the Outer Colonies to not want any part of all this. A million casualties now, caught in the crossfire, since TREBUCHET started .No one's going to ignore that. The civilians will keep cheering the rebels on."

- - Felicia Anderson

First Contact War
"Many of you may have come from Outer Colonies. Colonies that fell to the Covenant while the UNSC took their time to enact methods of dealing with the alien fuckers. Colonies that you know were not as well protected as they could have been, because the UNSC's loyalties are to Earth first, the Inner Colonies next, and the Outer Colonies last."

- - Maria Esquival

While most of the Insurrectionists were quelled during Operation TREBUCHET, including the total dismantling of the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces at Tau Volantis, most of the Outer Colonies would perish at the hands of the Covenant during the First Contact War. In the middle of the war, the Inner Colonies found themselves hopeless, and resorting to extract their own resources, once supplied by the Outer Colonies. Forests on Inner Colonies such as Chi Ro were forced to convert into farm lands in order to produce food supplies. The Covenant would briefly pause their onslaught on the Outer Colonies in 2543, only to resume their operations while attacking the Inner Colonies at the same time. By 2552, most of the Outer Colonies were glassed by the Covenant, and the number of colonies under the control of the UEG were insignificant, with its inhabitants in constant fear of being attacked by the Covenant.

Economy
The Outer Colonies made the selling of resources to the Inner Colonies their living, as they depended of the core worlds' military, industrial and technological products to survive. Some of the planets were colonized mainly for their multiple resources, with the intent of producing food for an ever-increasing famine population. Most Outer Colonies were attacked and glassed by the Covenant during the First Contact War, thus forcing the Inner Colonies to develop their own goods' resources.