Operation: Weed The Garden

Operation: Weed The Garden (134-139 NE) was a Gaia-Military operation carried out in secret until its fruition during the First Frontier War, with the objective of eliminating all members of a crime leadership group known as the Phantoms, as well as any upper echelon officers. The operation was an overall success, even though not all criminal leaders were killed. As a result of Operation: Weed The Garden, the First Frontier War came to an end.

While in the public, it was a heroic deed carried out thanks to a timely and lucky tip-off, it was in fact, Gaia cutting ties and exterminating loose ends from within the Phantom heirarchy by destroying it from the inside out.

This was all a part of the overarching Messiah Plan, to prepare humanity for the eventuality of alien invasion.

History
On October 7, 134, an anonymous tipoff lead Gaia Intelligence Harvester Unit 332-Mercia to believe that the long-hidden travel patterns of the Phantoms had been discovered. While it was one out of nearly a thousand tips a day, it was at first shelved as a possible lead, but not followed until November, when an operative at 332 matched restricted eyewitness descriptions of the mobile Phantom base with the tipoff. The intelligence was picked up on November 15, and made its way up to Flame Division in several hours, where in-depth analysis began. While the intelligence donor was never identified, the information was solid, and entirely actionable.

By November 17, Flame Division had proposed Operation: Weed The Garden to the Secretaries, who immediately approved the operation, and put it into effect.

On November 20, Operation: Weed The Garden began its first phase, using their intelligence to proceed in sending deep cover operatives to continue gathering information on the whereabouts of all officers serving under the Phantoms.

Beginning on December 25, 135 and ending in August of 139, the second phase of the operation began, and Leaf Special Forces were deployed to systematically kill Phantom officers from one end of the Perimeter Systems to the other. With every passing month, discord and disorder grew within the ranks of the Phantom heirarchy, with several criminal branches threatening to leave the Phantom superstructure entirely.

Throughout this process, more and more military divisions of Gaia became more and more involved until the process was ultimately made public in 138, when the drop of Phantom activity had the world wondering, Gaia delivered detailed reports on their spoils of war and their next targets.

With this, Gaia had the Phantoms on the run, and the First Frontier War ended with the Phantoms dispersed into the wind.

However, Gaia would learn that the ultimate success of Operation: Weed The Garden failed with the coming of the Second Frontier War.