User:Delta Team Curt/Halo Conflict/Backstory

The story told by Halo Conflict takes place after the events of the Halo Series and follows the process of Humanity recovering from the Great War, and the eventual clash of ideals between the United Colony Command and the United Nations Space Command

As of 2569
With the defeat of the Flood and Covenant at the Ark, Humanity thought the worst was over. The UNSC, assisted by Sanghelli Military, broke apart the empire of the Covenant, destroying its infrastructure, military, and production facilities. In a smaller series of battles, the remains of the Covenant Armada were destroyed, officially dissolving the Covenant.

With the final win at the Covenant colony of Careful Expansion, the Elites and Humans parted ways, returning to their own territory to rebuild from the Great War. The United Sanghelli Republic was founded, banding together the Elites for the common good of their race.

The UNSC returned to its colonies, not in defense, but to rebuild its empire. 3/4s of Humanities colonies had been wiped out, glassed to the point where they were considered lost. The terraforming of Africa would be the only major effort to reform a planets surface, taking 4 years to complete by over 1 million soldiers, civilians, and private contractors.

The first years after the war were considered the hardest, the absolute destruction of Earths colonies sunk into the public’s conciseness. As new reports filtered back to surviving colonies, images of planets glassed over, cities in ruin, flames that had been burning for years, and absolute abandonment of Human settlements filled them.

On top of it all, the UNSCs attempts at restarting the decimated governments that had presided over Humanity was failing miserably. The UEG, UN, and other Governmental bodies became nothing more than organizations of corrupt politicians, separatists, and rebel sympathizers, overall a hindrance to the rebuilding of Earths Empire.

When declared unable to perform its duties, the UNSC absorbed the UEG, taking over as the government for Humanity. The Colonial Administration Authority was dissolved, the UNSC starting to become more involved in the workings of Colonial Governments. At a convention in Philadelphia on Earth, the new charter and constitution of the UNSC was established, providing rights for its citizens, and set basic guidelines of the UNSCs duties.

With this however, millions rejected this, finding the fact that a military branch of the UN was now supposed to preside fairly over the colonies repulsing. Rebel groups that had once been so unpopular became ever more appealing to large and larger amounts of people. Several colonies became sites of active rebellion, the UNSC copvertl-y deploying military units to deal with them.

The United Colony Command was the brainchild of the UNSC Admiral Matt Dowd, an overseeing organization that would coordinate Colonial Militia and State-Sponsored Military Units for Humanities defense, in turn abolishing the UNSC. This was supposed to be the military branch of the Systems Alliance, a democratic government that would bind together the colonies fairly for the common good.

With the increasing open rebellion, and the blatant fact that the UNSC Constitution was preventing swift action, HIGHCOMM declared Martial Law on November 21st, 2557. With this event, several rebel groups bound themselves together to have a combined effort against the UNSC. Separatist Colonies provided funding and provided a safe haven for the fledgling rebel military.

At this same time, Dowd realized that his dream could become reality, and released his idea to the rebels. The rebels took the name easily, promising that when they succeeded, the SA would be founded. For the offer of command of the military, the rebels requested that Dowd spread the word of this new military through the UNSC, in an effort to supplement their ranks with experienced soldiers for the cause. The idea was widely popular, almost 3 million Marines going AWOL and joining the rebels cause over the course of 4 years. UNSC HIGHCOMM took little notice of this, focusing intensely on quelling the open rebellion.

Dowd however, was convicted of treason after a UNSC Corporal turned him in, and executed by a UNSC firing squad on April 1st, 2558. This caused uproar in the makeshift military, and was the tipping point that started the Second Human Civil War. UCC sympathizers rebelled against the UNSC; more than half a million souls were extinguished on the first day of the war: May 6th, 2559.

8 days later, HIGHCOMM learned the name of the aggressors, officially declaring war at 2109 hundred hors on May 14th, 2559. With almost 900 ships and 11 million soldiers, the UCC began its campaign, its capital becoming Paris II. The UNSC responded with nuclear attacks on Paris II, avenging the 300 thousand dead of its forces with just fewer than 4 million casualties, with just a little under a million UCC military killed in the attack.

The trend followed for almost a month, 4 colonies becoming nothing more than radioactive wastelands within 20 days. Paris II, Hallmark, Jackson, and the colony of Hannover were destroyed either by surface detonations by ground forces, the destruction of their atmospheres or ozone layers by naval aggressors, or a combination of both.

On July 27th, 2560, a NOVA device was activated on the surface of the Military Colony of Norfolk. ONI agents inside the UCC managed to alert the military at Norfolk of the attack 29 minutes before the detonation of the device, saving the lives of thousands as the ships in orbit were able to escape. However, the loss of 16 million souls, 12 million civilian casualties, showed the obvious need to outlaw nuclear warfare.

Conventions at the colony of Sustenance held in September of 2560 negated the use of Nuclear Weapons as a first strike weapon, both sides agreeing to never use nuclear weapons on a colony willingly, this also grew to include the use of MAC Cannons against land based targets.

With defeat after defeat, the UNSC was loosing ships, soldiers, and colonies to the UCC at an astonishing rate. The UNSCs leadership was restructured; the great admirals of the Human-Covenant war were pulled from sitting behind desks at HIGHCOMM facilities planning the war, to fighting the war on the frontlines.

The UCC gained strength and numbers with every victory, the once fledging military growing to almost 20 million experienced soldiers and 1600 naval vessels within 7 years. The UCC had become highly skilled at organization of its military, and started to create its tools of wars, and break free from UNSC technology as it gained more and more soldiers, engineers, scientists, and colonies.

The peak of the UCC came in 2569 with the Third Battle of Earth, when a UCC fleet came close taking Earth from the UNSC in a major naval battle. This battle, even though a loss, boosted the UCCs morale, and allowed its military to take a large number of colonies following the absence of defending forces.