User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Humanity: Post-2553

After the Human-Covenant War, Humanity was in chaos. The population had been decimated from sixty billion citizens to just over two hundred million survivors, their defence forces were smashed and unable to defend Earth or any of the surviving colonies and even though fractured, the Covenant Empire's remains still posed a signifigant threat to the remaining humans. At 2553, one hundred and thirty million humans lived on Earth herself while seventy million humans lived outside the Sol System on un-glassed colonies.

Agriculture
Quickly, the UEG set about rebuilding their way of life: groups of refugees were formed into labour gangs and made to build automated factories which used pieces of the materials taken from destroyed vehicles, buildings and crashed UNSC ships to create agricultural JOTUN's and robots capable of clearing the majority of humanities destroyed cities with very little human intervention. During the Battles of Earth, the Sangheili Fleet under Fleetmaster Rtas 'Vadum was forced to glass a large part of African continent to prevent a potential Flood outbreak, including the majority of the Sahara Desert. Using advanced technology, humanity tried to revert the Sahara to its former nature but discovered that instead of a vast desert, the Sahara became a lush fertile area of land, which was promptly turned into farmland and solar farms.

Population
While automated workers began to clear the world of the destruction and the farming vehicles began to feed the remaining population, the UNSC set up advanced 'breeding farms' to rebuild their numbers, males and females of the population were required by law to give their sperm and eggs to these specialized medical facilities. From there, scientists would mix-and-match the genes to form hundreds of millions of children over the course of fifty years by using artifical wombs' or birthing chambers that would develop children just as well as a real womb. These children would be born and raised by 'Teacher' Artifical Intelligences instead of human teachers as all humans were needed for the rebuilding efforts. Although never publically known, many of the scientists who worked in the breeding farms were on ONI payroll, recieving large amounts of money and food for 'upgrading' the children born in the farms. The effect of these 'upgraded' children would be seen two hundred years later where most of humanity of genetically, physically and mentally superior than the average humanoid although nothing compared to members of the SPARTANS.