Admiralty Protocol

The was a secret piece of UNSC legislation, designed to ensure the continued  survival of humanity in the face of extinction events. Devised by Lord Terrence Hood prior to giving up his emergency powers at the end of the war, the Admiralty Protocol was not placed into effect until years later, during the War of the Confederacy.

Usage
The Admiralty Protocol is used to grant emergency powers in the face of imminent extinction and collapse of human society. The Protocol was devised to take control of government bodies, industrial facilities, and civilian assets, for use in the continued war effort.

In order to implement the Protocol, it must be approved by the entire UNSC Security Council, and must be approved by the incumbent UEG President and Secretary of Defence. Once implemented, it can only be ended by a unanimous decision by the Security Council.

The first stage of the Protocol is to subsume control of government bodies, with emergency powers granted to the Chief of Naval Operations. They functionally become the commander-in-chief of the UNSC, UEG, and CAA.

The Second stage of the Protocol is the federalisation of industrial and civilian assets. Any industrial facility vital to the UNSC war effort is claimed as part of the Protocol. Mining and refining facilities, fuel extraction and processing facilities are both of high priority, along with manufacturing of vital war materiel, such as armouries, ship-yards, and factories. This also allows them to take over civilian infrastructure that is vital to the war effort, such as star-ports, space elevators, sky-hooks, media outlets, extra-net hardware, and communication hubs.

History
Though originally devised by Lord Hood for the possibility for a second war with the Covenant, it never came into use until years later. At the opening of the Second War Of The Confederacy, a squadron of Demiurge stealth ships managed to knock out Earth's orbital defences with a cyber-warfare attack, then proceeded to launch an orbital assault on Sydney in hopes of decapitating the UNSC Security Council. They succeeded in killing all but the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Galia Meir, and the Commander-in-Chief of ONI, Admiral Serin Osman. Successfully escaping the assault, they enacted the Admiralty Protocol in order to emerge victorious in the war.