History of the United Nations Space Command

1945: "We the Peoples of the United Nations... United for a Better World"

Following the events of World War II, a multi-national diplomatic organization entitled the United Nations emerged from a joint military collaboration between the Allied Nations during a crucial period of the war. On June 26th, 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, USA, by representatives of Earths most vowed nations, including the United States of America, the Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United Kingdom. The UN thereby dedicated itself to maintaining a sustained level of peace throughout the confines of its member nations and to take measures against threats to world peace.

2000 - 2160: Space Colonization and collapse of National Governments

As proven by many researchers and aeronautic development agencies, space travel was no longer regarded as an impossible step in human evolution. Space travel and colonization efforts were undertaken by a number of national governments. As humanity expanded its frontiers, Earths neighboring planet Mars was the first world to be colonized and inhabited by space navigators. Despite the relatively great distance from Earth, the Jovian Moons quickly followed in the colonization effort, being mainly colonized and organized by the UnifiedGermanRepublic (which emerged from the Federal Republic of Germany) and its respective space corporations.

While the UN was effectively placed in control of Earths governments, space colonization demanded that an efficient government be assigned to human settlements across the Solar System and in orbital facilities. At this point, national governments had lost considerable authority over their own states in favor of the United Nations, and citizenship no longer involved patriotic connotations towards the mother-nations.

2160 - 2170: A New Type of War: Interplanetary

By the year 2160, human controlled space spanned across the entire Solar System from Mars, to the depths of the outer planets. As life in the colonies prospered, distress signals were triggered on Earth. One of the less obvious problems and the root of what developed into a chain reaction was overpopulation and the ever-worsening life conditions on Earth due to the massive population surges.

National governments became crammed between the unceasing economical and political problems they faced during their brink. The already devastated population faced dealing with raging wars fought between various governments on Earth. However, a far more serious problem of world-wide proportions had arisen from the crisis of the almost abolished governments, which would lead them to their ultimate collapse: Terrorists and rebellious factions.

Facing the imminent destruction of governments all around the Earth, a large number of political and military movements took advantage of the crisis. Century-old political beliefs tracing their roots from the historical Nazi-Fascist and Communist dictatorships rapidly gained popularity as the liberating ideologies among the citizens of Earth and its colonies. The United Nations would face a massive attack from two particularly problematic and dangerous terrorist-juntas: The Koslovics and the Frieden.

The Communist governance generated by the Soviet Union in the 20^th century served as the fuel for the Koslovic military movement led by the dictatorship-driven hardliner Vladimir Koslov. Capitalist and democratic governance faced trouble in front of this new yet well-known threat. Its organizational aims included the removal of capitalist leadership in orbital facilities and colonies, and the return to the Marxist-Leninist domination a great part of Earth was once controlled by.

The Kolsovics counterpart the Frieden organization which formed itself in the Jovian Moons was a Nazi-Fascist political movement which rose from the two-hundred-century-old hatred between Communists and Fascists. The Friedens were essentially the followers of the UnifiedGermanRepublic which suffered numerous workers crusades performed by the Koslovics. Not only did the Frieden want to eliminate the neo-Communist threat, but they concentrated extensively on gaining their own independence, thus earning the title of a Secessionist movement in front of which both the Koslovics and the United Nations were equally serious threats to their self-containment. Frieden means peace in the German language, thus justifying that peace could be achieved only once the United Nations and all opposing forces on Earth were defeated.

The events that followed would be forever recorded in humanitys history as the bloodiest armed conflicts since the Second World War.

2160: The Jovian Moons Campaign

The United Nations Colonial Advisers sent on the Jovian Moon of Io came under attack by the Frieden Secessionist military in March of 2160. The UN transported a massive amount of troops to the Jovian Moons in response to these savage attacks, which led to an all-out armed conflict between the United Nations military and the uprising Frieden secessionists. The campaign lasted three months, during which the UN fought the rebels intensely and ultimately prevailed over the weakening secessionists. However, their rebellion wasnt destroyed. Several Frieden fleets supposedly escaped in the aftermath of, or during the conflict and headed for Earth, carrying troops that would have the stamina and ability to fight at least three more years.

Symbolically named the Jovian Moons Campaign, the conflict was perceived as a further threat to cultural integrity on Earth, leading to a number of other conflicts between the already collapsing national governments on Earth, and throughout UN-controlled territories of the Solar System. This particular clash shifted the United Nations aims from a dedicated diplomatic and political organization, to the most powerful military force in the Solar System.

The Jovian Moons Campaign is often believed to be the root of the intense UN militarization processes and training of a large number of civilians in all forms of warfare that followed this conflict.

2162: The Rainforest Wars

As the national governments came ever closer to extinction, the Koslovics and Frieden movements turned their attention to South America an agriculturally rich and fertile continent on Earth. Although the reason why the rebels came to South America is unknown, the natural resources that South America had to offer indicates that they were most likely seeking to obtain some of the riches for their own benefit, and likely for the benefit of their armies.

The United Nations, Frieden, and Koslovics clashed in another military conflict in South America, comparable to some of the bloodiest battles of World War II. The conflict apart from aerial forces was a fairly difficult challenge for both UN and rebel infantry forces due to the harsh climate and landscape of the South American continent. The harsh combat conditions most likely caused the deaths of a large number of United Nations, Frieden and Koslovic troops. The war was ultimately won by the UN forces, but at a great cost. This conflict was later named the Rainforest Wars considering that a large part of the South American territory is covered by rainforests. The horrific nature of the battles inspired the highly acclaimed classic military novel A Soldiers Tale: Rainforest Wars to be written which described the wars in detail.

The consequences of the Rainforest Wars were unprecedented the overpopulation was amplified by the economical instability and famine caused by the conflict. Most of the civilians of Earth suffered a great deal of deaths following the wars due to the massive famines that had befallen the population. It is believed that the UN was now forced to conduct both military and anti-starvation campaigns on Earth.

While other battles sparked by the Rainforest Wars raged through the Solar System, the UN succeeded in routing the Frieden and Koslovic armies away from the hotspots of the System. The rebels prepared themselves for a gallant stand against the UN and against each other, this time on Earths closest neighbor: Mars.

2163: War on Mars - UN Space Command

In December of 2163, the first planet to be colonized by mankind was now a decisive battlefield in the bloody war between the UN, Koslovics and Frieden. Once the rebels were routed on Mars, the member nations of the UN organized a massive counter-offensive consisting of a dedicated usage of United Nations Marine Corps forces, most likely borrowed from the Marine Corps of several Earth nations such as the United States. The assault tactic was quite simple: Marine troops were dropped from orbit, landed, and delivered a series of violent lightning strikes based on the Blitzkrieg strategy on Koslovic forces stationed near the Argyre Planitia, thus crippling the Communist infantry.

Considering that Mars hadnt been terraformed, the UN Marines most likely used space combat suits during the assault. The battle represented one of the most if not the most daring and successful military campaign in the history of human warfare, marking the first extra-terrestrial usage of Marines. This conflict paved the way for a new and highly efficient assault tactic: Space-based marine attacks on ground targets would from now on be favored in delivering decisive attacks on enemy forces.

At this point, the United Nations needed an agency dedicated to organizing and supervising marine space drops across the Solar System. This necessity resulted in the unanimous declaration and formation of the UNSC (United Nations Space Command).

Frieden and Koslovic militaries slowly backed away from the war, and peace across the Solar System finally seemed to emerge upon the citizens of the UN and its UNSC. The UNSC Navy and UNSC Marine Corps were organized into embarking on a final campaign to rid the Solar System of the Frieden and Koslovic terrorists.

2164: The Interplanetary War Peace

By 2164, the UN transformed the UNSC into its primary military force which encompassed all branches of the armed forces, including the Navy, Army and Marine Corps. Pro-military propaganda and recruitment drives started to take place on Earth and throughout the Solar System, providing the UNSC with innumerable amounts of troops. The UNSC along with UN-sponsored forces of the former national governments initiated the final and largest campaign of the Interplanetary War: The Frieden and Koslovics had to be eliminated, thus UNSC forces organized offensives on Earth and all around the Solar System, from the inner planets to the most distant edge of the outer planets where the remaining rebel troops were hiding out. The outcome of over four years of brutal wars resulted in a definitive UNSC victory over swarming terrorist movements and rebellions around the entire human-controlled space. What seemed as a highly unlikely probability a century ago was now coming true: A unified UNSC military controlled all of humanitys armed forces.

2170:United Earth Government

Following the Interplanetary War, the unified UNSC military was placed under the auspices of the United Earth Government a governing faction more or less similar to the UN. The UEG and Earth were now the center of humanitys colonies. While the UNSC armed forces were growing ever-bigger in size, overpopulation was yet again regarded as a problem that continued to threaten the post-war period.

Food distribution was also encountering serious problems following the famines caused by the Rainforest Wars. The post-war population surges caused societal problems which forced the United Earth Government and the UNSC to drastically change its governance methods in order to counter the overpopulation, famines, and increasing economical instability.

2291: A New Step: Faster-Than-Light

In 2291, a team of military researchers led by Tobias Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa were assigned by the UNSC to secretly develop a faster-than-light engine which could enable human ships to travel through Slipspace. Although the Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace engine was revolutionary in design, it created a series of inconsistencies which gave military tacticians problems in coordinating attacks, but also made them aware of the variations in faster-than-light travel, thus carefully plotting out their attacks.

Slipspace allowed ships to travel between stars without creating relativistic consequences. However, FTL travel was not constant; it took at least two months for a short jump to be performed, and at least six months for long jumps.

2310: Colony Ships

As overpopulation eroded the economy on Earth, colonization of stars beyond the Solar System became a highly desired step by civilians. The United Earth Government and its UNSC brought out the first line of ships able to travel faster-than-light. The massive military fleets were becoming considerably expensive, and in order to better utilize the fleets, the UEG attached military forces to the colony ships. However, colonists are not allowed to board the colony vessels without proper mental and physical training. Only the best-qualified military personnel and citizens are allowed to colonize the closest planets, thus the Inner Colonies were born, benefiting of the cream of military and diplomatic colonists.

2362: The Odyssey

The first ship in the line of colony fleets is launched on January 1, 2362: The Odyssey. The vessel transported a large amount of soldiers and terraforming experts, along with terraforming gear. Colonists have inhabited and terraformed the first world, launching the first wave of human expansion far beyond the Solar System. The colonization efforts were the first and most important step made by the UNSC to counter the overpopulation problems.

2390: The Inner Colonies

Colonization of outer-Solar System worlds largely stabilized the population surges around human space. The UEG and its UNSC were now in control of over 210 colonized worlds. It is also believed that by this time, the Colonial Administration Authority a branch of the United Earth Government was formed to administrate the colonies.

2400s: The Inner Colony Wars

The Inner Colony Wars are a much debated aspect of human colonization. Although nothing is known about these wars, it is assumed that a wave of rebels rose up against the UNSC. The Inner Colony Wars were fought inside the Inner Colonies. Unedited and unformatted news reports were broadcast over space communication means, stirring up the population, causing massive civil unrest and almost tearing Earths culture apart. It is unknown how the UNSC resolved the crisis.

2490: Outer Colonies

By the year 2490, the UNSC had terraformed and colonized over 800 worlds in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way at a quick rate. Although estimates have been declared official, 800 worlds do not exist as far as the Orion Arm spans. This was most likely a UEG political tactic to bolster colonization operations and increase the governments credibility. The colonies varied between powerful military strongholds and remote settlements. While expansion continued, the Inner Colonies had become the economic, military and political center of the UNSC (along with Earth). The Outer Colonies served as the primary source for providing riches and resources for the Inner Colonies and the UNSC.

The Epsilon Eridani System became a particularly important stronghold for the government, thus the planet Reach which was located within the system was assigned as the UNSCs primary and most experienced military fortress world. The Naval yards on Reach became the most acclaimed along with the Reyes McLees Naval Yards on Mars vessel developer in the Orion Arm. Reach was also used as the training ground for elite covert infantry and Special Forces.

2491: Project ORION

Project Orion is started in 2491: Recruits volunteer to take part in the project, experiencing genetic enhancements and augmentation procedures. The Project is aimed at training a new type of soldiers to deal with future rebellions: Super soldiers.

2494 2496: Eridanus Insurrection

In 2494, the Eridanus Rebels begin conducting raids against UNSC ships and stations in the Eridanus system. The Insurrection is defeated by the UNSC in 2496 at the cost of four destroyers. However, the Rebel base in the Asteroid field of the system was never located.

In 2495, the space station Hopeful is turned into the largest mobile fleet hospital in UNSC service, equipped with a Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace engine.

2511 - 2525: Second Eridanus Insurrection - Operation: TREBUCHET

The Colonial Administration Authority governance on the planet of Eridanus II is overthrown by the Eridanus Rebels, thereby controlling all activity within Eridanus Star System. The UNSC responded in pure military force, however, it didnt succeed in putting down the rebellion.

In 2513, the Eridanus Rebels (also labeled Insurrectionists) begin fighting against the UNSC around the gas giant Eridanus II. The Rebels built a small civilian navy in order to definitively overthrow the UNSC government in the system. The rebels were placed under the leadership of Colonel Robert Watts.

In 2517, an ambitious military project is initiated by the UNSCs Office of Naval Intelligence: Project SPARTAN-II, a predecessor of Project ORION, dedicated to training a new generation of super-soldiers to combat the rebellion.

The UNSC sent a battle group of destroyers and carriers in the Eridanus system, but soon found itself pinned down between at least a hundred smaller rebel ships. The UNSC vessels defeated the rebel navy. The Insurrectionists retreated into the local asteroid belt, where they organized another base of operations which by 2525 was active once more.

A Marine Expeditionary Force was deployed on Eridanus II, attempting to capture the leaders of the rebellion on their own ground, and stabilize the crisis.

By 2524, the rebellion cost the lives of over a million civilians. Several Special Forces squads were sent on the colony planet of Tribute, seeking to eliminate rebel explosive developers, however, the operation failed.

In 2525, a SPARTAN-II task group was sent on Eridanus Secundus and captured Robert Watts, the leader of the rebellion. The rebel organization however, was not yet fully destroyed.

Operation: TREBUCHET was stopped in February of 2525, confronted by a new threat an alien threat.

-- Edited by UNSC Trooper at 06:44, 2007-12-26

-- Edited by UNSC Trooper at 06:48, 2007-12-26