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[[File:Escalation - SecurityCouncil.png|300px|thumb|right|High Command's UNSC Security Council in 2557]] | [[File:Escalation - SecurityCouncil.png|300px|thumb|right|High Command's UNSC Security Council in 2557]] | ||
'''UNSC High Command''' ('''HIGHCOM''' or '''HighCom''') is the highest operational command of the [[United Nations Space Command]] and is ultimately in charge of all personnel, equipment, and facilities used by the [[UNSC Armed Forces]]. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as "'''the Admiralty'''", which is a misnomer as its staff | '''UNSC High Command''' ('''HIGHCOM''' or '''HighCom''') is the highest operational command of the [[United Nations Space Command]] and is ultimately in charge of all personnel, equipment, and facilities used by the [[UNSC Armed Forces]]. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as "'''the Admiralty'''", which is a misnomer as its staff is composed of personnel from all branches, not just the [[UNSC Navy|Navy]]. High Command consists of less than twenty members that work very closely to plan missions, set objectives, to ensure that there are no disputes over resources or the command hierarchy among the lower echelons.<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 47'' (2011)</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
In [[2491]], Doctor [[Elias Carver]] published his "[[Carver Findings]]" and presented them before High Command, where he theorized that a civil war would rip apart the [[Unified Earth Government]] unless the political situation in the [[Human colonies|colonies]] was stabilized, preferably by force. While Carver's theories were dismissed by many, they gained purchase within High Command and the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]. Carver's predication proved true, as the [[Insurrection]] began several years later across [[human]] space, as High Command began to formulate strategies to deal with the [[insurrectionist]]s for decades to come.<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia''', ''page 44'' (2011)</ref> | In [[2491]], Doctor [[Elias Carver]] published his "[[Carver Findings]]" and presented them before High Command, where he theorized that a civil war would rip apart the [[Unified Earth Government]] unless the political situation in the [[Human colonies|colonies]] was stabilized, preferably by force. While Carver's theories were dismissed by many, they gained purchase within High Command and the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]. Carver's predication proved true, as the [[Insurrection]] began several years later across [[human]] space, as High Command began to formulate strategies to deal with the [[insurrectionist]]s for decades to come.<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia''', ''page 44'' (2011)</ref> | ||
When the [[Covenant]] [[First Battle of Harvest|attacked]] and [[Glassing|glassed]] the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Harvest]] in [[2525]], High Command and ONI were not fully prepared for conflict against an advanced alien empire. High Command put the entire UNSC on full alert in preparation to the Covenant as the [[Human-Covenant War]] began, and ordered for the acceleration of the [[SPARTAN-II program]] to use the Spartan-IIs to combat the Covenant.<ref name="for93">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 93'' (2010)</ref> Although initially unpopular among High Command, the effectiveness of the Spartan-IIs against the Covenant saw that the Admiralty's reticence about the program vanish, with High Command making the Spartan-IIs public in [[2549]] to boost public | When the [[Covenant]] [[First Battle of Harvest|attacked]] and [[Glassing|glassed]] the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Harvest]] in [[2525]], High Command and ONI were not fully prepared for conflict against an advanced alien empire. High Command put the entire UNSC on full alert in preparation to the Covenant as the [[Human-Covenant War]] began, and ordered for the acceleration of the [[SPARTAN-II program]] to use the Spartan-IIs to combat the Covenant.<ref name="for93">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 93'' (2010)</ref> Although initially unpopular among High Command, the effectiveness of the Spartan-IIs against the Covenant saw that the Admiralty's reticence about the program vanish, with High Command making the Spartan-IIs public in [[2549]] to boost public morale.<ref name="for262">'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 262'' (2010)</ref> On [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]], during the [[Fall of Reach|Fall]] of [[Reach]], the [[Covenant]] destroyed the [[Reach High Command]] facility, one of the primary headquarters of High Command. Many high-ranking officers were killed in the facility's destruction, leaving [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]]—[[Deputy Chief of Naval Operations]]—in command of all forces on Reach for the rest of the battle. With the destruction of Reach High Command, the surviving members of UNSC High Command relocated to [[HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] on [[Earth]].<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia''', ''page 297'' (2011)</ref> | ||
During the [[Battle of Earth]] beginning in [[2552#October|October 2552]], despite the fact that Sydney was heavily damaged by the Covenant's assault, High Command's officers survived within HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6, with some members boasting that even the Covenant was loathe to attack the facility. With the end of the Covenant War, High Command continued to direct the UNSC as it begun rebuilding what was lost in the war.<ref>'''[[Halo: Hunters in the Dark]]''', ''page 39''</ref> | During the [[Battle of Earth]] beginning in [[2552#October|October 2552]], despite the fact that Sydney was heavily damaged by the Covenant's assault, High Command's officers survived within HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6, with some members boasting that even the Covenant was loathe to attack the facility. With the end of the Covenant War, High Command continued to direct the UNSC as it begun rebuilding what was lost in the war.<ref>'''[[Halo: Hunters in the Dark]]''', ''page 39''</ref> | ||
