When the Confederation added their new type of curser, the Hammerhead to its fleet, it was a complete successes. It was powerful, reliable, it had strong shields, and a compliment of (2-4, undecided) patrol ships, and best of all, it was cheap to construct. The Confederation obliterated almost all of the Rebellion's colonies. This included the Rebel homeward of Pashilife.
The Rebels fled to the farthest reaches of the know galaxy. They colonized new worlds in the hope that the Confederation would never find them. They Failed. Two years later the Confederation found the Rebel's main colony and completely obliterated it. Again the Rebels were on the run. The last of their fleet found a planet far away from any other colonies. The planet was habitable but barely. While the Rebels were setting up camp on their newfound world, search parties found an ancient ship, marooned on this desolate planet. The ship was from an ancient race long since gone. The few surviving Rebel scientists tried to figure out where this huge ship came from. They failed in the attempt, but found out something better. This ships weaponry was nothing that they had seen before. The ship had a type of shielding that could withstand a supernova and still beat a Confederation Hammerhead. The ship was massive. Unfortunately for the Rebels, the ships weapons didn't work. However, its shield did. The Rebels outfitted the ship with their own weapons. The ship was large enough to hold all of the 10,000 remaining Rebels. Their mission was one of revenge. Pashilife would be theirs again.
The unsuspecting Confederates at Pashilife, were destroyed as soon as they started to fight. It was at that time, that the Rebels new that they now stood a chance against the mighty Confederation. Some of the independent worlds grew tired of the Confederations rule over the galaxy. Those worlds joined up with the now powerful Rebellion. Production of the Rebel's new ship began right away. Within one year, the Rebellion had built over 1,000 ships, and all had the new technology of the abandoned ship. The Rebels named this ship quite appropriately. The Rebel Glory. Over the period of one year, the Rebels took Mars by use of the Glory. The Rebellion was again alive, with new strength.
In their glory, their eyes were taken off of the fringe systems, and they did not see the terror that came from there before it was too late. Now the Rebellion was fighting a war on two fronts. One was with the Confederation, the other, was with an unknown race that came out of nowhere, that was bent on destroying the galaxy. This brought a new age of conquest, and terror for the Rebellion. This year, was the year of, The Rebellion's Glory