United Nations Space Command
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The United Nations Space Command (UNSC) is the scientific, exploratory and military arm of the Colonial Administration Authority and the United Earth Government that controls and administers that authority. The UNSC's military arm is called the United Nations Space Command Defence Force, they are most commonly seen defending planets. Bases such as Aegis Base are part of the UNSCDF.
There are several breakaway factions opposed to the Government and UNSC as well, including the United Rebel Front.
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[edit] Background
The UNSC was formed by the United Nations when over-population on Earth started becoming a problem in the early 22nd century. The UNSC is run by HIGHCOM and is Earth's main defence against the Covenant. The Navy houses the divisions of Marines (including the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers), the Office of Naval Intelligence and the fleet. Originally designed to keep the peace between neighbouring planets and star systems, when certain rebellious factions began to rise in the late 2510s the UNSC was forced to police its colonies to keep privateers and pirates from raiding them. After Harvest, a colony planet, was destroyed, one badly damaged UNSC ship returned to tell the tale of monstrous alien ships that utterly destroyed the colony. The UNSC doubled its shipbuilding to bolster themselves against the Covenant, but it was useless, for the Covenant's technology was far superior to mankind's. The UNSC fortified major positions such as Reach, the UNSC's main shipyards and command center, and Earth.
[edit] A Short History
- Main Article: History of the UNSC
The United Nations Space Command was formed as the result of a series of brutal wars across the Solar System between 2160 and 2164, most prominently among them the Jovian Moons Campaign, The Rain Forest Wars, and a series of battles on Mars. These conflicts were centred around UN clashes with dissident political movements, the most important of which were the "Koslovics" and the "Frieden." More specifically, the Frieden movement was a fascist organization based on the Jovian Moons, though they received backing from some corporations operating in the United German Republic on Earth, while their ideological opponents, the Koslovics, formed a Marxist-Leninist group centered around the leadership of Vladimir Koslov.
The war began with an attack on UN military advisers on the moon of Io, but would spread to Mars and parts of South America in the Rain Forest Wars. These events culminated in a large UN build-up in the 2160s, which would change the UN from a largely diplomatic organization to a permanent military power; the war's consequences also helped make way for a unified government seated on Earth to lead the human race by 2170. The four-year long war put the spotlight on problems facing the overpopulated planet, and the Rain Forest Wars also exacerbated the problems related to food distribution. The ensuing famine and societal problems related to the post-war population boom provided the impetus to change the political nature of governance on Earth and elsewhere, leading to the political system seen now.
These pressures also helped make space colonization more attractive in later centuries, as the government would sign off on a colony ship program that was revealed in 2310 to ease the burden on the ailing homeworld. This would not have been possible without the invention of the Slipspace drive in the late 2200's.
It took 52 years before the first colony ship, the Odyssey, was launched, and what became the so-called Inner Colonies were not fully colonized until the end of the 24th century. The apex of UNSC colonization would come in 2492, when over 800 worlds were under human control and were at various stages of development. By this time, a ring of Outer Colonies was providing the UN with the raw materials that made the macro-economy work; the political power, however, remained with the aforementioned Inner Colonies. The massive difference in wealth distribution and political power, which became a hallmark of the humans' civilization by this period, led to new threats of secession from the outer ring. Fearing the consequences of the breakup of the interstellar empire and seeing the benefits of avoiding all-out war to defend their hold on the colonies, the UNSC would embark upon various top-secret programs from 2491 onwards, rumoured to begin with something called the ORION Project.
[edit] The Human-Covenant War
- Main Article: Human-Covenant War
The year was 2524, the conflict between the Covenant and the Humans originally started with a chance encounter between a human freighter and a Covenant privateer. This was possibly a Jackal controlled ship seeing as they were space faring before they entered the covenant, and that they only work as mercenaries. Then on February 3, 2525 contact with Harvest ceased. On October 7, 2525, a UNSC battle group sent in response to the disappearance of the scout ship Argo entered the Harvest system. It discovered that everything on the planet had been completely incinerated, and the surface had been melted down to glass. In orbit around the remains of the colony world was a single alien ship which proceeded to attack the battle group, destroying all the ships except one. Intercepted communications identify the enemy as The Covenant, a caste-driven, theological organization made up of several alien species. The message "Your destruction is the will of the Gods... and we are their instrument" was broadcast in perfect English before the battle group's destruction
Thus began the Human-Covenant War, raged for 28 years. Since the Battle of Harvest in 2531, the humans' grip on their territories declined significantly in the course of their struggle. Of the 800 worlds under UNSC control in the 2490's, only 540 colony worlds are left by 2552, and the Covenant forces were also proving successful in attacking and destroying some of the Inner Colonies as well as the smaller counterparts in the frontier. The UNSC fleet was effectively outnumbered and outgunned, and the human sphere of influence shrank as UNSC ships were moved closer to the remaining colonies and to Earth for their protection. As the tide of the war continued to turn against the UNSC, its brass considered more unorthodox tactics for ending it. In a desperate move to stop the Covenant, the Space Command intended to send a group of Spartans to capture one of their ships, find their homeworld and capture a Prophet (Prophets are the species and caste that effectively command the Covenant). But on August 30, 2552, only two days before the operation, a massive battle fleet of 314 Covenant warships came out of Slipspace near Reach to recover an artefact and destroy the UNSC base there.
[edit] Organization
- United Earth Government
- Colonial Administration Authority
- Central Command (CENTCOM)
- High Command (HIGHCOM)
- Administrative
- Personnel Command (PERSCOM)
- Navigation Command (NAVCOM)
- UNSC Astrophysics
- UNSC Medical Corps (MEDCORPS)
- UNSC Engineering Corps (ENGCORP)
- UNSC Logistical Corps
- UNSC Test and Evaluation Corps
- UNSC Ordinance Committee
- Administrative
- UNSC Navy
- Fleet Command (FLEETCOM)
- Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
- Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
- Naval Special Warfare (NAVSPECWAR)
- Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
- Signal Corps
- Prowler Corps
- Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
- Fleet Command (FLEETCOM)
- UNSC Marine Corps
- UNSC Marine Infantry
- UNSC Marine Aviation
- UNSC Marine Logistics
- UNSC Marine Special Operations
- UNSC Army
- UNSC Special Forces
- Other
- High Command (HIGHCOM)
- Central Command (CENTCOM)
- Colonial Administration Authority
[edit] UNSC Personnel
- See the Characters for a list of UNSC personnel.
[edit] Rank Structure
[edit] UNSC Navy
- See UNSC Navy
[edit] UNSC Marine Corps
[edit] UNSC Army
- See UNSC Army
[edit] Colony Systems, Worlds, and Cities
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Sigma Octanus System
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Eridanus Star System
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Lambda Serpentis System
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Hellespont System
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Zeta Doradus System
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Other Colonies
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UNSC bases
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[edit] UNSC Weaponry
- Main Article: UNSC Weapons
These are some of the weapons that the UNSC employs against the likes of The Covenant.
[edit] UNSC Vehicles
- Main Article: UNSC Vehicles
These are some of the vehicles that the UNSC employs against the likes of the Covenant.
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| Land | Scorpion Tank - Warthog - Mongoose - Cougar - Elephant - Rhino | |
| Air | Pelican - Albatross - Bumblebee - Longsword - SkyHawk - Shortsword - Sparrowhawk - Hornet - Kestrel | |
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[edit] UNSC Technologies
- See Technology
[edit] UNSC Vessels and Stations
- See UNSC Navy
[edit] Known UNSC Military Units
- Main Article: UNSC Military Units
[edit] Major UNSC Events
- Interplanetary War - 2160-2200
- Inner Colony Wars - Unknown, probably 25th century
- Human-Covenant War - 2525-Present
- The Battle of Harvest
- The Battle of Sigma Octanus IV
- The Battle of Reach
- The Battle of Installation 04
[edit] UNSC Laws
- See UNSC Laws
[edit] Trivia
- Although the UNSC was directly formed by the UN during the Argyre Planitia Campaign of the Interplanetary War, it does not pertain to the UN anymore. Instead, beginning from 2164 it pertains to the Colonial Administration Authority which permanently replaced the UN.
- The UNSC is the navigation, and military arm of the Colonial Administration Authority, thus it does not administrate the colonies without the consensus of the CAA.
[edit] Services
| UNSC Military Services |
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| UNSC Army · UNSC Marine Corps · UNSC Navy · UNSC Special Forces Office of Naval Intelligence · Colonial Militia |
