Tir Cobalt

Tir Cobalt was a Nadezhdan dissident in the Era of the People's Crown who stoked anti-Coalition sentiment among Aureate's Nadezhdan populace into a devastating rebellion that did considerable damage over a span of years starting in PX 531. The historical event would be known as the Tir Cobalt Insurrection, while the actual movement came to call itself the Cobalt Revolt - a name Tir Cobalt never once used.

The Cobalt Revolt
With the Tyranon Dynasty's bombardment of Nadezhda going largely unpunished, Tir Cobalt led many of Aureate's Nadezhdans to rise up against a Coalition that was either unwilling or unable to defend them. The insurrection grew in the poor regions of Vow and in the hardscrabble desert settlements that struggled to survive on their own. The Cobalt Revolt was much more a movement of saboteurs and wreckers than anything resembling a standing army, with a number of high-profile assassinations that devastated Coalition morale. Their greatest success was the destruction of the Songship Unity in low orbit, with the death of four Representatives onboard a shocking loss for the Coalition.

Early in the conflict, the Cobalt Revolt seized the fortress-moon of Severyn (taking advantage of defenders who had no idea the fighting had left the planet's surface) and then held out against a brutal siege for nearly two years, while the forges on Samara produced materiel for the Revolt’s armed struggle. The moons paid a high toll for their disloyalty; Severyn was broken by merciless fighting, while many of Samara's factories were reduced to smoking craters and never rebuilt.

Tir Cobalt vanished in the chaos surrounding Severyn's fall and was widely reported as dead, but no body was ever found, and they quickly passed into patriotic legend for Nadezhdans across the Pearlescent Expanse. The Thousand Moons' Creed would later declare both moons as holy, a decision that proved incredibly controversial; Severyn the Aegis is the patron moon of perseverance in the face of adversity, while Samara the Keen stands for vigor and strength, as well as passion in both craftsmanship and war. While the Revolt was ultimately broken by the Coalition's military, it served to unite and embitter the Nadezhdan population on Aureate and beyond, as well as show all those watching that the Coalition was weak enough to struggle against a local resistance effort, revealing them as something of a paper tiger.

Reports that the Banner Post provided illicit support to the Cobalt Revolt are unsubstantiated, and commonly dismissed as the stuff of fringe conspiracy theory.