CoDominium/Awesome

"Marine Captain Laubenthal: Gods, if these are militia we're fighting, I'd hate to see their best. They just don't give up."
 * The Battle of Sparta City. The corrupt Grand Senator sponsoring the Helot rebellion arranges for an entire CoDominimum Line Marine Regiment is dropped in on a city that has been completely emptied of troops to be sent to the fighting front against the Helots. They have tanks, APCs, satellite recon, and eight battalions of troops, and the only thing the Spartans have to oppose them with are a hundred or so Royal Guards with only small arms, the Sparta City PD, and the unorganized militia levy -- i.e., 'citizens with sporting rifles and shotguns'. Meanwhile, the entire Minetown slums are simultaneously rising up in a giant riot, being full of Helot sympathizers. And yet the Spartans successfully hold the line all night.

"Marine Captain Laubenthal: All right, tell first platoon to- (a horde of Minetowners enter the scene and hit the Spartan formation that Laubenthal's company has just broken from their flank, deliberately butchering the fallen Spartans) Captain Laubenthal: The last bloody straw. Damned if I'll see good soldiers murdered. (deep breath) It appears that we're out of touch with HQ, Sergeant. A Company, open fire, selective! Drive off those jackals and rescue the Spartans. Sergeant Sandeli: Sir? Captain Laubenthal: You heard me, Sergeant. Sergeant Sandeli: Fucking A, sir! Carruthers! New targets! Clean house! (beat) Sir, I hope you never get that motherfucking radio working again."
 * Also a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming in that what ultimately decides the battle is the first mass mutiny of Line Marines in history, as the grunts on the front realize that they are shooting the wrong people.


 * By the time the regimental XO finally realizes he needs to relieve his CO and call for a cease-fire, five other companies will have defected to join Laubenthal's. That many Line Marines switching sides mid-battle is directly lampshaded as never having happened before in galactic history.