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| |name=United Nations Space Command
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| |type=[[Emergency Military]]
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| |founding=[[United Nations]]
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| |constitution=[[Democracy]]/Emergency military
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| |headofstate=*[[United Nations]]
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| *[[Unified Earth Government]]
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| |judicial=[[Office of Investigations]]<ref>The [[Office of Investigations]] most likely investigates and judges the actions of all the arms of the UNSC, as it is the only known judicial organization of the UNSC.</ref>
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| |language=[[English]] (Primary), [[Spanish]], [[Japanese]], [[Swahili]] and many others
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| |formed=From [[United Nations]] between [[2160]] and [[2164]]
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| The '''United Nations Space Command''' ('''UNSC''') is the military, exploratory, and scientific agency of the [[United Earth Government]]. The UNSC was formed in the [[2160]]'s, during a period where remnants of old cultural ideologies clashed for supremacy in the [[Sol System]]. The UNSC served mainly as overseer of [[United Nations]] military operations in space. After initiating massive militarization propaganda throughout its off-world colonies, through the UNSC, the UN defeated [[Communism|Communist]] and [[Fascism|Fascist]] forces in a conflict generally known as the "[[Interplanetary War]]", which consisted of several side-battles that took place on [[Mars]], the [[Jovian Moons]] and the [[South America|South American]] rain forests. Although the Interplanetary War brought a great deal of suffering to both the colonial population and the residents of Earth, it also united humanity's military forces into a common armed force by the end of the 22nd century.
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| Prior to the [[Covenant|Covenant's]] attack on [[Harvest]] in 2525 <ref>''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''</ref>, humanity was in chaos, fighting in multiple fronts, on planets, against a group known as the [[Insurrectionist]]s who wanted independence from the [[UEG|United Earth Government]]. The UNSC, more specifically, the [[UNSCDF]], constantly battled against the Insurrectionists. In an attempt to help end the long running war against the Insurrectionists and rebels, the UEG commissioned the [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II Project]], which created elite super-soldiers to combat separatists and the insurrections they spawned. When the [[Covenant-Human War]] began and the alien invaders began decimating the [[Outer Colonies]], these Spartans became humanity's best hope against the technological superiority of the aliens. When the war began, the UNSC truly became humanity's greatest (and arguably only) defender.
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| This fact allowed the UNSC to override civilian rule and establish itself as humanity's primary government. Although the United Earth Government was more open to step down, the [[Colonial Administration]], the arm of the UEG ruling over the colonies, resisted the UNSC's rise to power, and was thus stripped of its power.<ref>[http://halostory.bungie.org/oconnor_mclees_080508.html HBO Interview with Frank O'Connor and Robert McLees]</ref>
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| By [[2552]] A.D., Earth was the last remaining major Human bastion; and fell under attack by Covenant forces. The [[Human-Covenant War]] finally came to an end after a UNSC and [[Covenant Separatists]] force [[The Covenant (Level)|eliminated]] the Covenant [[Prophet of Truth|leadership]] and [[Battle of Installation 00|destroyed the Flood]] threat.
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| By the time the war began, humanity, and thus the UNSC, had reached [[Technological Achievement Tiers|Tier 3]] of the [[Forerunner]] civilization achievement rank system. Humanity’s rank continued to rise due to the capture of Covenant technology and equipment, which was studied and adapted for human needs. The very best and cutting edge of UNSC equipment was supplied to the [[SPARTAN-II]] Project. One such example of imitative human technology is the energy shielding adapted for use on the [[MJOLNIR]] armor.
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| During the [[First Battle of Earth|First]] and [[Second Battle of Earth]], the UNSC fought the [[Covenant Loyalists]] on Earth to prevent humanity's extinction, and eventually won their right to survive thanks to an alliance with the [[Covenant Separatists]].
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| ==Background==
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| [[Image:7thHelljumpers.jpg|right|thumb|The [[ODST|Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]], a special forces unit of the [[UNSC]], are deployed by drop pods that land at the mission site. ]]
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| The United Nations Space Command was formed by the United Nations during the [[Interplanetary War]]. After the [[UNSC]] victory, overpopulation on [[Earth]] became a major issue in the early 22nd century. This issue was resolved and disaster averted by colonizing and building vast cities on other planets in the [[Orion Arm]] of the galaxy, the [[Inner Colonies]] and later the [[Outer Colonies]].
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| The [[UNSC | UNSC's]] defensive military force is the [[UNSC Defense Force]] (UNSCDF), and consists of the [[UNSC Air Force]], the [[UNSC Army]], the [[UNSC Marine Corps]] and the [[UNSC Navy]]. <ref>[http://halostory.bungie.org/oconnor_mclees_080508.html HBO Interview with Frank O'Connor and Robert McLees]</ref>
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| The UNSC is run by the [[UNSC Security Council]], under the jurisdiction of the [[UNSC Security Committee|Security Committee]]. The UNSC was originally created to keep the peace, order, and control, thus serving as an executive governmental branch between neighboring planets and star systems. When certain rebellious factions began to rise in the late [[2510]]s, the UNSC was forced to police its protected colonies tirelessly to keep privateers and pirates from raiding the colonies and any UNSC ships.
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| The [[Unified Earth Government]] and the [[United Nations]] still exist and operate the UNSC. It acts as a democratic world government, where all the participant nations share the same legal system as the UNSC and act as smaller parts of the greater whole.
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| It should be noted that the UEG's specific functions, legal makeup and legal boundaries as they relate to the [[CAA]] and UNSC are not yet known in detail.
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| The United Nations Space Command Flag is described as being "''...a blue field with stars and [[Earth]] in the corner.''" <ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', page 37 (One should see a similar banner, in the game: ''[[Halo 3]]'', where the player can see a blue banner with the UNSC emblem/eagle.)</ref>
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| ==History==
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| {{Main|History of the UNSC}}
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| {{UNSC History}}
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| ===Interplanetary War===
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| The UNSC has its roots in [[World War II]], which would form its parent organization, the United Nations. The UNSC was actually formed and fashioned as the result of a series of brutal conflicts across the Solar System and Humanity's space confines between [[2160]] and [[2164]], most prominently among them the Jovian Moons Campaign, The Rain Forest Wars, and a series of battles on [[Mars]].<ref name="xbox">http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/halo/storyline.htm</ref> The United Nations Space Command, as organized and orchestrated as it seems is actually an emergency military government formed in such strife. These encounters were centered, 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 [[Communism|Marxist-Leninist]] group centered around the leadership of [[Vladimir Koslov]].
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| The war began with an attack on UN Colonial Advisers on the moon of [[Io]], one of the moons of [[Jupiter]], but would spread to Mars and parts of [[South America]] in the [[Rain Forest Wars]]. These events culminated in a UN buildup in the 2160s, which would result in the second of the great reforms, the first being from the league of nations into the UN. The second reformed the UN from a largely diplomatic organization to a permanent United Earth Government as an ultimate power to lead the human race by [[2170]].
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| ===Colonization===
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| [[Image:H3 Zune Marine.jpg|thumb|right|A UNSC Marine in battle uniform]]
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| The four-year long war put the spotlight on problems facing the overpopulated planet, and the Rain Forest Wars also exacerbated the problems relating to food distribution. The ensuing famine and societal problems related to the post-war population boom providing the spark to change the political nature of governance on [[Earth]] and elsewhere, leading to the political system seen in the 26th Century.
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| These pressures also helped make space colonization seem more attractive in later centuries, as the Unified Earth Government would sign off on a colony ship program that was revealed in [[2310]] to ease the burden on the ailing home world. This would not have been possible without the invention of the [[Slipspace]] [[Slipspace|Shaw-Fujikawa drive]] in the late 2200's, which allowed the ships to travel far greater distances than ever before.
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| 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 human colonization would come in [[2492]], when more then 800 worlds were under [[human]] control and were at various stages of development. By this time, a ring of [[Outer Colonies]] was providing the [[UEG]] with the raw materials that made the macro-economy work; the political power, however, remained with the before mentioned [[Inner Colonies]]. The massive difference in wealth distribution and political power, which became a hallmark of humanity 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 Earth government would embark on the [[Spartan-I]]s, the predecessors to the [[SPARTAN-II]] program in [[2491]], beginning with the [[ORION Project]].
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| ===The Human-Covenant War===
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| {{main|Human-Covenant War}}
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| [[2525]] marked an important turning point in human history; it would mark the beginning of the great technological advancement, the unification of a divided and fractured human race, and the [[Halo: Contact Harvest|first contact]] of humanity and an extra-terrestrial intelligence, the [[Covenant]]. It would also see a majority of the Earth government's over 800 colony worlds glassed, and billions of colonists and military personnel slaughtered by orbital plasma bombardment and planetary invasion, known as [[glassing]]. Thus began the [[Human-Covenant War]] with the [[First Battle of Harvest]].
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| Stemming from the chance encounter of [[Human]] and [[Covenant]] forces at [[Harvest]], the first contact made between humanity and the [[Covenant]] involved the ship ''[[Minor Transgression]]'', and was less peaceful than the second contact made between the two factions. A less aggressive meeting between representatives of the two factions took place on the fields of [[Harvest]], but the peaceful meeting soon turned into a blood bath, with the [[Covenant]] claiming the planet for the numerous "[[Forerunner]] relics" present, slaughtering most of the colony's population.<ref>''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''</ref>
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| On April 20, a scout ship, ''[[Argo]]'', was sent to investigate the cessation of communications between [[Harvest]] and the rest of the [[UEG]]'s colonies. Before being destroyed by [[Covenant]] forces, it discovered that everything on the planet had been completely incinerated, and the surface covered by fields of magma, leaving nothing alive. Soon after the [[Heracles]] battle group, consisting of the [[frigates]] [[Arabia]] and [[Vostok]] and the [[destroyer]] [[Heracles]], was sent to find out what had happened. On October 7, the battle group dropped out of Slipspace and to Harvest. 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]].<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', page 96-98</ref>
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| Since the later [[Second Battle of Harvest]] in [[2526]], where a huge human fleet led by [[Vice Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] barely won against a smaller [[Covenant]] fleet in a symbolic "victory" for humanity, the humans' grip on their territories declined significantly in the course of their struggle. Of the more than 800 [[colony worlds]], the Covenant had managed to capture the majority, if not all of the [[Outer Colonies]], and a portion of the [[Inner Colonies]].
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| By this time, the [[UNSC | United Nations Space Command]] overrode the [[UEG]], and thus the central civilian authority throughout the human worlds and Earth itself. Although the central government was more willing to step down, the [[Colonial Administration]] was far more reluctant to this idea, and thus the [[UNSC]] stripped it of most of its power. By the middle to late stages of the war, the government of humanity could be more accurately described as an "emergency military" government.
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| By [[2552]], the UNSC [[Navy]], [[Marine Corps]], [[Army]], [[Air Force]] and [[Militia]], outnumbered and out-gunned, had managed to slow down the Covenant's inexorable progress through former human space, but the situation was dire. In desperation, [[HIGHCOM]] ordered a high-risk Op, sending the Spartan-II super soldiers, the best soldiers ever fielded by humanity, to insert into Covenant space, capture a high-ranking [[Prophet]], and return to UNSC space in an attempt to ransom for a truce. Before the operation began, the Covenant found and destroyed the planet [[Reach]], killing most of the Spartans and a large portion of the UNSCDF, inadvertently stopping the operation and rendering most of the Spartans [[MIA]]. This became known as the [[battle of Reach]]
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| A single ship, the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn]]'' managed to escape the planet, with two Spartans on board, [[Linda]], who was presumably dead in the [[Battle of Reach]] and the [[Master Chief]]. The ship followed co-ordinates derived by the AI [[Cortana]] to a Ring-world known as [[Halo Array|Halo]]. There the Master Chief destroyed a large Covenant fleet and the ringworld itself. He also encountered a parasitic lifeform known as the [[Flood]], the species that the ring, [[Halo]], had been built to starve. The major side-effect of the activation of the ring would lead to the extinction of all life within three radii of the galactic centre. The Master Chief destroyed the ring, believing it to be too powerful, by detonation of the reactor of the [[Pillar of Autumn]]. After hijacking a Covenant Flagship known as ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'', the Spartan reunited with the remaining survivors from Halo and the destruction of Reach and attacked a force of Covenant ships in [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], one of the most successful [[UNSC]] operations against the Covenant in the entire war.
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| By October of [[2552]], the Covenant had haphazardly discovered the position of the human home world, Earth, and sent a preliminary task force there, believing it to be the location of the [[Installation 00|Ark]], an ancient [[Forerunner]] relic. They encountered staunch resistance, and were initially fended off. Further complications arose from the political and religious crisis that emerged in the wake of a [[UNSC]] operation to assassinate the [[Prophet of Regret]], and the secession of the [[Sangheli]] from the hegemony, leading to the [[Great Schism|Covenant Civil War]], further throwing the Covenant into chaos. Nevertheless, by November, what was left of the [[Covenant Loyalists]] had subjugated large parts of Earth, devastating much of the planet. Only their retreat through a Forerunner [[portal]] in [[Africa]], and the arrival of the [[Sangheili Fleet]], stopped the utter destruction of the [[UNSC]] and [[Earth]] itself.
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| The [[UNSC]] and [[Sangheli|Elite]] forces launched a joint operation to destroy the Covenant Loyalists once and for all at the [[Ark]], stopping the installation from firing the [[Halo Array]], killing the Covenant's last remaining leader, the [[Prophet of Truth]], and destroying the bulk of the Loyalists' remaining forces. On March 3, [[2553]], the Human-Covenant War officially ended in a victory for the [[UNSC]] and the [[Covenant Separatists]], but at a high price, with most major military outposts destroyed except for Earth as well as many colonies (although it seems that most of the colony worlds were not glassed during the war, with only seventy-six worlds known to have been totally destroyed). It is presumed that millions of [[UNSC]] personnel and untold billions of [[human]] civilians had been killed from 2525-2553.
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| ==Organization==
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| '''[[Unified Earth Government]]''' or '''[[United Nations]]'''
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| *'''[[Colonial Administration Authority]]'''
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| **'''[[Central Command]]''' (CENTCOM)
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| ***'''[[United Nations Space Command Defense Force]]'''
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| ****'''[[High Command]]''' (HIGHCOM)
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| *****'''[[UNSC Security Committee]]'''
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| *****'''[[UNSC Security Council]]'''
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| ******'''Administrative'''
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| *******'''[[PERSCOM|Personnel Command]]''' (PERSCOM)
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| *******'''[[NAVCOM|Navigation Command]]''' (NAVCOM)
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| *******'''[[UNSC Astrophysics]]'''
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| *******'''[[UNSC Medical Corps]]''' (MEDCORPS)
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| *******'''[[UNSC Engineering Corps]]''' (ENGCORP)
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| *******'''[[UNSC Logistical Corps]]'''
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| *******'''[[Operational Test and Evaluation Center|UNSC Test and Evaluation Corps]]'''
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| *******'''[[UNSC Ordnance Committee]]'''
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| ******'''Uniformed Services'''
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| *******'''[[UNSC Navy]]'''
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| ********'''[[Fleet Command]]''' (FLEETCOM)
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| *********'''[[Office of Naval Intelligence]]''' (ONI)
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| **********'''[[Office of Investigations]]''' (OI)
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| **********'''[[UNSC Prowler Corps|Prowler Corps]]
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| **********'''[[UNSC Special Forces|Naval Special Warfare]]''' (NAVSPECWAR)
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| ***********[[Project ORION]]
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| ************[[SPARTAN-I Program|Project SPARTAN-I]]
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| ***********[[SPARTAN-II Program|Project SPARTAN-II]]
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| ***********'''[[Beta-5 Division]]'''
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| ************[[SPARTAN-III Program|Project SPARTAN-III]]
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| *********'''[[Signal Corps]]'''
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| *******'''[[UNSC Marine Corps]]'''
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| ********'''[[Marines|UNSC Marine Infantry]]'''
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| ********'''[[Marines|UNSC Marine Aviation]]'''
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| ********'''[[Logistical Operations Command|UNSC Marine Logistics]]'''
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| ********'''[[Military Police|UNSC Marine Military Police]]'''
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| ********'''[[UNSC Special Forces|UNSC Marine Special Operations]]'''
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| *********[[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]]
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| *******'''[[UNSC Army]]'''
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| ********[[UNSC Army|UNSC Army Infantry]]
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| ********[[Colonial Militia|UNSC Colonial Militia]]
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| *******'''[[UNSC Air Force]]'''
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| ****'''Other'''
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| *****[[UNSC Symphony Orchestra]]
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| ****'''Commerce'''
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| *****'''[[UNSC Department of Commercial Shipping|Department of Commercial Shipping]]'''
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| {{UNSC Organizations}}
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| ==Economy==
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| The UNSC uses the [[UN Credit|United Nations Credit]] monetary unit to organize its economical stability by selling or buying military equipment, supplies and costs for shipping etc. The UN Credit was implemented by the United Nations, some time before its dissolution and replacement with the United Earth Government in [[2164]]. For transporting food and raw materials between colonies, the UNSC maintains a [[UNSC Commercial Fleet|merchant navy]], run by the [[UNSC Department of Commercial Shipping|Department of Commercial Shipping]].
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| ==Military==
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| {{main|United Nations Space Command Defense Force}}
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| The UNSC's military arm is the [[United Nations Space Command Defense Force]], which is divided into the [[UNSC Army]], the [[UNSC Air Force]], the [[UNSC Navy]], and the [[UNSC Marine Corps]]. The Defense Force took control of the UNSC during the [[Human-Covenant War]].
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| [[Image:UNSC.jpg|right|thumb|United Nations Space Command Defense Force emblem]]
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| The UNSCDF is run by the [[UNSC Security Council]], with the professional head being [[UNSC High Command]], and is the [[Human]] on [[Earth]]'s main military force, most recently fighting the [[Covenant]]. The [[Navy]] houses the divisions of [[UNSC Marines]] (including the special forces branch of the UNSC Marines known as [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]] more commonly know as ODSTs or "Helljumpers"), [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] (ONI), and the [[Fleet]]. The [[UNSC Army]] and [[UNSC Air Force]] maintain garrisons on colony worlds. When certain rebellious factions began to rise in the late [[2510]]s, the UNSC was forced to police its protected colonies tirelessly to keep privateers and pirates from raiding the colonies and any UNSC ships.
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| A great number of Defense Force ships and soldiers were lost during the [[Human-Covenant War]].
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| Unlike the Covenant, UNSC military technology is still based on comparatively primitive mechanisms - projectile weaponry, wheeled vehicles, and combustion engines. The UNSC's grasp of scientific concepts is far more advanced than the Covenant, but turning these concepts into functional machinery has proven more problematic. Recently, the UNSC has introduced a variety of Covenant-derived technologies into their arsenal: gravity plating aboard ships, [[energy shields]] to protect Spartan-II soldiers, and limited use of [[Directed Energy Weapons|directed energy weapons]], usually lasers, for example, the [[Spartan Laser]], though the Covenant still retain their technological advantage.
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| UNSC starship weaponry is based around [[Archer Missile|missiles]] and [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]]s. Their technological inferiority in the face of the Covenant means that it was often necessary for the UNSC to have a three-to-one numerical advantage against them in ship-to-ship combat. The UNSC also possesses weapons of mass destruction in the form of the [[NOVA Bomb]].
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| '''Missiles'''
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| *''[[Archer Missiles]]''
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| *''[[ASGM-10 Missiles]]''
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| *''[[ANVIL-II ASM]]
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| '''Mines'''
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| *''[[Lotus Anti Tank-Mine]]''
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| *''[[Antilon Anti-Personnel Mine]]s''<ref>[[Letter - Re:Antilon Mine]]</ref>
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| *''[[Moray Space Mine]]s''
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| *''[[Type 14 Magnetic/Anti-Tank Mine]]''
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| '''Grenades'''
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| *''[[Smoke Grenade]]''
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| *''[[Concussion Grenade]]''
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| '''Nuclear Weapons'''
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| *''[[Fury Tactical Nuclear Weapon]]''
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| *''[[Shiva-class Nuclear Missile]]''
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| *''[[FENRIS Nuclear Warhead]]''
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| *''[[NOVA Bomb]]''
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| *''[[HORNET Mine]]''
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| *''[[VX 7 Nerve Gas]]''
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| *''[[102mm SC-HE Rocket Turret]]''
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| *''[[Fougass]]''
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| *''[[Satchel Charge]]''
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| *''[[C-7 Foaming Explosive]]''
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| *''[[C-12 Shaped-charges]]''
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| *''[[Narcozine Gas]]''
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| *''[[Thermite-Carbon Cord]]''
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| ==Sphere of influence==
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| '''See: [[:Category:UNSC Colonies]].'''
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| UNSC territory is known to encompass several dozen worlds in several star systems, in various stages of colonization, from the well developed Inner Colonies to the relatively recent and struggling Outer Colonies. Though there were over 800 Human colonies before the War, only 38 have been referenced
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| The territory encompassed by the Inner Colonies seems to stretch in at least a 10.5 lightyear radius around Earth, and the Outer Colonies beyond that. By 2525, the outermost colony was Harvest, at 11 lightyears - later, [[Hesiod|colonies]] were founded well beyond the Outer Colonies. The furthest known UNSC colony is [[Beta Centauri]], at 525 light years away.<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''</ref> Colonies may have been settled after Harvest, or founded during the Human-Covenant War.
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| '''[[Sol System]]'''
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| *'''[[Earth]]''' - Homeworld to Humanity
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| ***[[Micronesia]]
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| ***[[China]]
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| ***[[Mongolia]]
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| ***[[Pakistan]]
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| ***[[Cairo (City)|Cairo]]
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| ***[[United Republic of Tanzania]]
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| *****[[Special Warfare Center]]
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| **[[Commonwealth of Australia]]
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| **[[Diego Garcia]]
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| **[[Republic of Chile]]
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| **[[United Republic of North America]]
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| ***[[Mexico]]
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| ****[[Mexico City]]
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| *****[[Base Segundo Terra]]
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| ***[[Canada]]
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| ***[[United States of America]]
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| ****[[New York]]
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| *****[[New York City]]
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| ****[[New Jersey]]
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| *****[[Unit 216]]
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| *****[[Newark]]
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| ****[[Cleveland|Cleveland, Ohio]]
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| *****[[Old Cleveland]]
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| ****[[Oregon]]
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| *****[[Salem]]
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| ****[[Illinois]]
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| *****[[Chicago]]
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| ******[[Industrial Zone 08]]
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| ******[[Gut Check]]
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| ******[[Rebound]]
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| ******[[Severe Tire Damage]]
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| ******[[The Seropian]]
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| ******[[Halsted Street]]
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| ****[[Indiana]]
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| ****[[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]]
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| *****[[Chawla Base]]
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| ****[[Commonwealth of Kentucky]]
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| ****[[Great Lakes]]
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| *****[[Lake Michigan]]
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| *****[[Great Lakes Spaceport]]
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| ******[[Cottage Grove Terminal]]
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| ****[[Minnesota]]
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| ****[[Wisconsin]]
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| **[[Switzerland]]
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| **[[United Kingdom]]
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| ***[[Great Britain]]
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| ****[[London]]
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| *****[[Islington]]
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| ****[[Birmingham]]
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| ****[[Doncaster]]
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| ****[[Sheffield]]
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| ****[[Bristol]]
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| ****[[Cheshire]]
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| ****[[Leeds]]
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| ****[[Plymouth]]
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| ****[[Portsmouth]]
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| ****[[Reading]]
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| ****[[Romford]]
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| ***[[Scotland]]
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| ****[[Edinburgh]]
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| **[[Federal Republic of Germany]]
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| ***[[Essen]]
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| ****[[Beweglichrüstungsysteme]]
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| **[[UNSC Symphony Hall]]
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| *'''[[Luna]]'''
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| **[[Luna OCS Academy]]
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| *'''[[Mars]]'''
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| **[[Chiron|Chiron]]
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| **[[Argyre Planitia]]
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| **[[Reyes-McLees Shipyards]]
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| **[[Katagalgun]]
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| ***[[New Legaspi]]
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| ***[[New Manila]]
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| **[[Mare Erythraeum]]
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| *'''[[Jupiter]]'''
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| **[[Jovian Moons]]
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| **[[Ganymede]]
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| ***[[Aigburth]]
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| ****[[Lister (City)|Lister]]
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| **[[Io]]
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| ***[[Io Station]]
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| **[[Europa]]
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| {{col-2}}
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| '''[[Epsilon Eridani|Epsilon Eridani System]]'''
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| *'''[[Reach]]''' - Primary military installation. Was glassed by the Covenant in [[2552]].
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| **[[Highland Mountains]]
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| **[[CASTLE Base]]
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| **[[Camp Hathcock]]
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| **[[Camp Independence]]
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| **[[Fairchild Field]]
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| **[[HighCom Armory Omega]]
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| **[[Military Reservation 01478-B]]
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| **[[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]]
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| **[[ODG Facility A-331]]
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| **[[Olympic Tower]]
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| **[[Reach Station Gamma]]
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| **[[Reach Naval Academy]]
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| *'''[[Ehilend]]''' - natural orbiting satellite
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| *'''[[Beta Gabriel]]'''
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| *'''[[Tribute]]'''
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| **[[Casbah]]
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| *'''[[Circumstance]]'''
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| {{col-end}}
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| {{col-begin}}
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Sigma Octanus System]]'''
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| *'''[[Sigma Octanus IV]]''' - Still held by the UNSC even though it was attacked in [[2552]] by the Covenant.
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| **[[Côte d'Azur]]
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| {{col-4}}
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Lambda Serpentis System]]'''
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| *'''[[Jericho VII]]''' - Glassed in [[2535]]
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Zeta Doradus System]]'''
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| *'''[[Onyx]]''' - Obliterated (Core still intact)
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| **[[Camp Currahee]]
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| **[[Zone 67]]
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| {{col-4}}
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| {{col-end}}
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| {{col-begin}}
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Epsilon Indi System]]'''
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| *'''[[Harvest]]''' - Glassed by Covenant in [[2525]]
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| **[[Utgard]]
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| ***[[Utgard Highway]]
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| **[[Gladsheim]]
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| ***[[Gladsheim Highway]]
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Chi Ceti System]]'''
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| *'''[[Chi Ceti 4]]''' - Status Unknown (possibly abandoned or glassed at a later date)
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| **[[Damascus Testing Facility]]
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Hellespont System]]'''
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| *'''[[Troy]]''' - Glassed in [[2537]]
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| *'''[[Harmony]]''' - Glassed in 2537
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| *'''[[New Harmony]]''' - Status Unknown (Presumed Glassed)
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| {{col-end}}
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| {{col-begin}}
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[111 Tauri System]]'''
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| *'''[[Victoria]]''' - Unknown
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Jericho System]]''' - Status Unknown
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Tantalus]]''' - Status Unknown
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| {{col-end}}
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| {{col-begin}}
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| {{col-6}}
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| '''[[Eridanus System]]'''
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| *'''[[Eridanus II]]''' - Glassed in [[2530]]
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| **[[Elysium City]]
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| **[[Luxor Spaceport]]
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Groombridge 34 System]]''' - Status Unknown
| |
| *'''[[Station Delphi]]'''
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Charybdis System]]'''
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| *'''[[Charybdis IX]]''' - Glassed
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| **[[Scyllion]]
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| {{col-end}}
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| {{col-begin}}
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| {{col-6}}
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| '''[[Procyon|Procyon System]]'''
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| *'''[[Arcadia]]''' - Glassed in [[2549]]
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[Ectanus 45|Ectanus 45 System]]'''
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| *'''[[Chi Rho]]''' - Status Unknown
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| {{col-4}}
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| '''[[23 Librae|23 Librae System]]'''
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| *'''[[Madrigal]]''' - Glassed in [[2528]]
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| {{col-end}}
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| {{col-begin}}
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| {{col-2}}
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| '''Other Colonies'''
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| *'''[[Ariel]]''' - Unknown
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| *'''[[Atlas Moons]]''' - still held by UNSC
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| *'''[[Ballast]]''' - Unknown status
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| *'''[[Beta Centauri]]''' - Unknown status
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| *'''[[Biko]]''' - Glassed in [[2525]]
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| *'''[[Coral]]''' - Attacked by Covenant in [[2552]], Unknown status
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| *'''[[Crystal]]''' - still held by UNSC
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| **[[Durban]]
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| *'''[[Draco III]]''' - Glassed
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| *'''[[Dwarka]]'''- Unknown, went silent, possibly glassed
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| *'''[[Emerald Cove]]''' - Glassed in [[2542]]
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| *'''[[Far Isle]]''' - Unknown status
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| *'''[[Gilgamesh]]'''- Unknown
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| *'''[[Green Hills]]''' - Glassed in [[2525]]
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| *'''[[Hydra System]]''' - Unknown
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| *'''[[Mamore]]''' - still held by UNSC
| |
| *'''[[Mariposa]]''' - Unknown status
| |
| *'''[[Minister]]'''- still held by UNSC
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| *'''[[Miridem]]''' - Unknown status
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| *'''[[New Constantinople]]''' - Glassed
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| *'''[[Paris IV]]''' - Glassed
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| *'''[[Second Base]]''' - Glassed in [[2525]]
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| {{col-2}}
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| '''[[UNSC bases]]'''
| |
| | |
| *'''[[Fort York]]'''
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| *'''[[Fort Deen]]'''
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| *'''[[Roosevelt Military Base]]'''
| |
| *'''[[Crow's Nest (Base)|Crow's Nest]]'''
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| *'''[[Firebase Bravo]]'''<ref>Halo: The Fall of Reach</ref>
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| *'''[[Camp Hathcock]]'''<ref>Halo:The Fall of Reach</ref>
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| *'''[[Camp Independence]]'''<ref>Halo:First Strike</ref>
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| *'''[[Chawla Base]]'''<ref>[[I Love Bees]]</ref>
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| *'''[[Diego Garcia]]'''<ref>Halo 2</ref>
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| *'''[[Base Segundo Terra|Segundo Terra]]'''<ref>Halo:Ghosts of Onyx</ref>
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| *'''[[Camp Currahee]]'''<ref>Halo:Ghosts of Onyx</ref>
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| *'''[[Outpost C9]]'''<ref>Halo 2</ref>
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| *'''[[Rat's Nest]]'''
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| {{col-end}}
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| ==Nations==
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| Information suggests that at least some nations on Earth still exist and probably maintained their independence despite the global unification that was performed by the UN, UNSC and Unified Earth Government in the 22nd century during the Interplanetary War.
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| {{Countries}}
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| ==Major UNSC Events==
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| *[[Interplanetary War]] - [[2160-2200]]
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| **[[Jovian Moons Campaign]]
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| **[[Rain Forest Wars]]
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| **[[Argyre Planitia Campaign|Martian Campaign]]
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| *[[Inner Colony Wars]] - Unknown, probably 25th century
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| *[[Human-Covenant War]] - [[2525]]-[[2553]]
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| **[[First Battle of Harvest]]
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| **[[Second Battle of Harvest]]
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| **[[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]]
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| **[[Battle of Reach]]
| |
| **[[Battle of Installation 04]]
| |
| **[[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]]
| |
| **[[First Battle of Earth]]
| |
| **[[Battle of Installation 05]]
| |
| **[[Second Battle of Earth]]
| |
| ***[[Battle of Voi]]
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| ***[[Second Battle of Mombasa]]
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| **[[Battle of Onyx]]
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| **[[Battle of Installation 00]]
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| ==UNSC Laws==
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| :''See [[UNSC Laws]]''
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| ==Trivia==
| |
| *The UNSC is the navigation and military arm of the Unified Earth Government and the [[Colonial Administration Authority]], thus it does not administrate the colonies without the consensus of the CAA or the UEG.
| |
| *The UNSC was accidentally referred to as the "USNC" in the book ''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' as well as in the book ''[[Halo: The Flood]]''.
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| *The United Nations Space Command Marine Corps has an ostensible inspiration from the real world [[USMC]], the United States Marine Corps.
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| *The majority of UNSC vehicles are named after animals that live on the planet Earth, such as the Pelican, the Mongoose, Warthog, Scorpion, Albatross, etc. The exceptions, of course, being the 'Longsword', 'Shortsword', etc.
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| *In real life, UNSC is an acronym for the United Nations Security Council.
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| *Despite being titled as Earth's Defense force, the only accents ever heard from the Marines in-game are American, Mexican, British, and Australian.
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| ==Sources==
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| <references/>
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| [[it:U.N.S.C.]]
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| [[ja:United Nations Space Corps]]
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| [[ja:United Nations Space Corps]]
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| [[ja:United Nations Space Corps]]
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| [[Category:UNSC]] | | [[Category:UNSC]] |
| [[Category:Factions]] | | [[Category:Factions]] |
