Second Martian Revolution
The short lived but decisive second attempt for Mars to gain its independance from Luna started much like the first, with an allied blockade around the planet. However, whether one were to attribute Martian aggression or Lunaren war fatigue, this time the blockade held and a single pointed strike at the Lunarens was enough to end the war.
The Conflict
Prelude
After the loss of the first conflict, the Martians found themselves in a heightened state of security and observation as a planetary overseer was set up on Mars, along with a doubling in cameras and checkpoints. A new insurgency headed by Riji Howland began attacking these checkpoints and forcibly re-accessing the sealed off training bunkers of the original militias. Over years he and his idealogical descendants rebuilt the strength that was lost in the first war, largely under the nose of Lunar oversight, but also simply in the strength of private citizen support within the colonies themselves.
The Engagement
In 2572, 80 years after the loss of the first Martian push for independence the self named Senatorial Republic of Mars forces attacked and either destroyed or took control of every ground-to-orbit launch facility on the planet in Operation Glass Bowl, the largest scale ground operation, in terms of human power, to ever take place on Martian soil, starting the Second Martian revolution. The resulting conflict took a similar tactic as the first, this time with a combined Venusian and Earthen fleets that held back reinforcement ships from helping to take back facilities on the surface. With the blockade firmly in place and Mars itself under separatist control, Howland sent his newly commissioned admiral Micha Varon-Lace to gather up the ships that had been acquired during the initial phase of the war and capture the shipyard far out in orbit, the subsequent Battle for Ares, as it came to be known, would be the final, relatively bloodless, conflict in the war.
Outcome
After the destruction of the Ares Shipyard Lunaren taste for war was at an all time low, the station was seen as a feat of Lunaren capabilities and its loss devastated the populations morale for yet another expensive and far off war that had already cost lives and infrastructure. The massive public outpour quickly swayed the votes of their representatives in the Lunaren government and soon after the war was brought to an end. The Martian Provincial Representation Board was dissolved and Luna entered into negotiations for the planet territory and assets with the fledgling Martian Republic headed by its first Secretary General, Riji Howland.
