Lovejoy-Rén Act

{|style="width:100%; color:#FFF;" "It's been four years since the end of the war. And today we send forth a vessel designed for battle, but now re-purposed. For peace. Home to seventeen thousand of our best. Our brightest. This—is the culmination of human achievement."

- Senator Lovejoy during the UNSC Infinity's commissioning ceremony

The Lovejoy-Rén Act—also known as the Naval Act of 2554—is the first of two laws named for  Bernard Lovejoy and Mei Rén. The senators introduced the legislation on January 29, 2553 following the transfer of powers back to the UEG on January 8 which sought to increase the size of the to sixty-percent of its pre-war strength in order to replace the thousands of ships lost during the. The law is both a successor and expansion of the Naval Restoration Initiative of 2552 which was implemented by the Navy to bolster the numbers of the and  in preparation for the defense of  and. The law was supported by Admiral, the current and sponsored by Vice Admiral Allison Spurgeon who was recently appointed the new.

The law was enacted on May 29, 2554 setting in motion of events that would see the expansion of the UNSC Navy with the production of 996 ships. Four years later, the Navy received a fourth of that number, with the full order expected to be completed by 2564. Senator Lovejoy later sponsored another law on February 22, 2558, known as the Lovejoy-James Act of 2558 which requested further funding for the Navy to increase the size of its fleet by an additional 650 ships by 2570 following the escalation of hostilities between a number of and  factions.