UNSC Department of Commercial Shipping

The UNSC Department of Commercial Shipping, abbreviated DCS, is a organization in the United Nations Space Command responsible for maintaining the UNSC commercial fleet and regulating interstellar commerce and shipping between colony worlds.^[1] Their cargo ships are typically named in reference to terms and phrases relating to trade and logistics, and each is designated with a freighter identification code. Some of these freighters were attacked by the Covenant ship Minor Transgression in 2524, which led to beginning of the Human-Covenant War.

Lieutenant Commander Jilan al-Cygni posed as a DCS employee as cover for her assignment from the Office of Naval Intelligence to investigate the disappearance of freighters from Harvest.^[2]

DCS registered vessels

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Leadership

Major commands	High Command • Central Command • Covert Services • Testing and Evaluation • JAG Corps • Personnel Command • Incident Response and Investigation • Medical Corps • Engineering Corps • Communications • Press Corps • Procurement

Offices and boards	General Officer Review Board • Inspector General • Quartermaster General Office • Office of Investigations • Special Topics Committee • Ordnance Committee • Internal Audit

Departments	Astronavigation • Astrophysics • Commercial Shipping • Doctrine and Training • Human Resources

Organisation

Service branches	Navy (Chief of Naval Operations) • Marine Corps (Commandant) • Army • Air Force • Office of Naval Intelligence (Commander-in-Chief) • Spartan Operations (Commander-in-Chief • Chief of Staff of Spartan Operations)

Unified combatant commands	Unified Ground Command • Naval Command

Auxiliary forces	Colonial Militia • Commercial fleet • Fleet Auxiliary

Personnel

Training	Colonial Militia Training • Officer Candidate School (Luna OCS • CAMS • Reach Naval Academy) • Physical training • Spartan Training and Education (SPARTAN-II training) • Unified Combined Military Boot Camp

Uniforms	BDU (Marine Corps • Army) • Dress uniforms (Navy • Marine Corps • Army) • Navy uniforms (Service • Working) • Decorations

Ranks	NAVCOM ranks • UNICOM ranks • Spartan ranks

Miscellaneous	Service numbers (UNSCMID) • Genetic Database

History, culture and traditions

Culture	Symbols • Jazz Band • Symphony Orchestra • Archive Division

Documents and laws	Uniform Code of Military Justice • Colonial charter • Military Code of Conduct • Constitution • Cole Protocol • Common Space Law • Other laws

Equipment

Terrestrial	Weapons (Infantry weapons • Ground weapons • Air weapons) • Vehicles • Aircraft • Drones

Space	Spacecraft (Ship classes • List of ships) • Naval weapons

Other	Technology • Artificial intelligence • Armor (Powered exoskeletons) • Battle network