User:RelentlessRecusant/United Nations Space Command (RelentlessRecusant)

The United Nations Space Command (UNSC) was the centralized government of humanity for five centuries, initially established in the 2160s and finally being succeeded in 2606. Initially conceived by the United Nations on Earth as an overarching government to govern the disparate military, political, and sociological factions on the planet Earth, many countries initially rebelled, unwilling to submit themselves to a master power. The UNSC developed a substantial military, known as the UNSC Defense Force, using it to suppress all rebellion and assimilate all other ideologies and countries into itself.

Originally envisaged as a representative democracy, it became plagued with numerous dissidents and violet insurrections, leading to the takeover of the civilian government by the UNSC Defense Force, which declared martial law for the safety of UNSC civilians across the Milky Way Galaxy. Soon thereafter, the UNSC became a military dictatorship, with justice and laws administrated by the military. During the turbulent Human-Covenant War (2525-2552), the UNSC's military dictatorship became necessary for humanity to develop the rigor and strength to repel the Covenant invaders. Afterwards, surprisingly, the civilian government was allowed to hold the reigns of power again after decades of military rule, with the civilian government expeditiously forming the UNSC Defense Council, a civilian body that controlled the UNSC Defense Force's operations, and hopefully preventing the declaration of military rule again.

The United Nations Space Command would reformat its governmental system, its body largely comprised of a Colonial Senate comprised of representatives from each one of the UNSC colony worlds, where galactic laws within the UNSC were decided by democratic ballot. The UNSC at an executive level was governed by the Chief of State, who administrated the Colonial Senate and the Colonial Courts, and presided over legislation and had the ability to declare war, amongst other powers.