United Space Command

The United Space Command (USC), is the military, exploratory, and scientific agency of the United Nations Federation. The USC was formed in the late-21st century, a time when cultural ideologies clashed for supremacy in the Sol System. The USC serves mainly as overseer of United Nations Federation military operations in space. After initiating massive militarization propaganda throughout its off-world colonies, through the USC, the UNF defeated Dromic and the Hasencleverites insurgent forces in a conflict known as the First Energy War, which consisted of several side-battles that took place on Earth, Mars, and the Jovian moons of Titian, Io, and Europa. Although the First Energy War brought a great deal of suffering to both the colonial population and the residents of Earth, it also united most of humanity's military forces in the 22nd century.

Prior to the Hivivian attack on New Earth in 2725, the USC was stretched across human space. The most urgent concern was to contain the spread of the Rebels, a violent resistance movement consisting of colonists who wanted independence from the United Nations Federation. The USC fought constant battles in a loosely-defined civil war known as the Rebellion.

History

Predecessors

The United Space Command (USC) is an interplanetary organization that has its roots and founding in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The USC constitutes a system of collective security, much like NATO, whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
The USC was established with the aim of protecting the interests and security of its member states against any threats from external parties. The organization comprises member states from different regions of Earth and her colonies and is committed to upholding the principles of peace, security, and stability in space. The USC operates on the belief that collective security is the best approach to ensuring the safety and survival of its members. This belief is reflected in the organization's structure and operations.
The USC promotes cooperation among its member states by encouraging the sharing of resources, intelligence, and expertise. This collaboration has led to the successful execution of several missions and projects, including the establishment of space stations, mapping of planets and moons, and exploration of new territories in space. The USC's commitment to collective security has enabled it to respond effectively to various threats to its member states. For instance, the organization has intervened in instances of piracy, terrorism, and natural disasters, providing assistance to affected member states.

Interplanetary colonization

As space exploration progressed in the mid to late 21st century, colonization operations required international cooperation and assistance in order to effectively conduct territorial expansion throughout the Solar System. The International Society of Civil Engineers was formed at this time (2048), an organization that contributed immensely to furthering the quality of space engineering. National-conservative philosophies quickly made changes to adapt to the situation. An imperative change in worldwide government was necessary to accommodate space colonization demands, which the only global administration organization humanity could rely on. National governments began to combine their overall authority on a global scale, thus enhancing the influence of the United Nations under their supervision. In 2050, the United Nations (under the nations' influence) created the United Nations Federation. However, Russia, and Kazakhstan elected to reform the old Soviet Union after political differences with the US emerged. China also form its own Allience with the many Asian nations, while the middle east nations falling under Taliban control. Regardless, an international think tank tasked with solving the challenges of interplanetary expansion and governmental unification was formed.
By 2090, human colonization of the Solar System was fully underway. Offering reasonable living conditions and a physical composition similar to that of Earth, Mars was the first planet to be colonized (2035) and soon became a major center of science and industry. Settlements were also established on Luna, the asteroid belt, as well as the Jovian Moons, the latter sponsored in large part by American corporations. Advances in terraforming technology enabled the reshaping of many of the Solar System's formerly inhospitable worlds into sustainable earthlike environments.
Human settlement of the Solar System was initially driven more by commercial goals than the comparatively modest programs run by Earth's nations. Corporations sought to escape the bureaucracy and laws of national governments and the United Nations Federation that interfered with their operations on Earth. While this resulted in many scientific and technological developments, it also bred suspicions about the ethics of the offworld corporations' activities. In response, the UNF enacted the Genetic Rights Act in 2103 in order to ensure the fulfillment of basic human rights in humanity's expanding domain.

Political conflicts (2104 -2124)

As the UNF's campaign of centralization and globalization progressed and increasingly more space settlements were being established, ideological political and economic tensions did not disappear with them. With the transition being made from Earth-based capitalism to post-industrial space capitalism, elements on the extreme fringe of the political left-wing saw a rebirth of doctrinal origin, and revolutionary ideas of change once again took the form of military organizations.
One of these ideological resurgences centered around German-born, revolutionary Isaak Hasenclever, who proceeded to form a neo-nazi guerrilla armed force named after himself; the Hasencleverites. The new group of communists aimed to dismantle capitalist systems and corporate power on Earth and in newly-occupied space territories, putting a particularly strong emphasis on liberating orbital installations and orchestrating so-called "workers' crusades," or armed campaigns against their foes on the opposite end of the political spectrum.

First Energy War

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Advent of the USC

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Martian Rebellions of 2380

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Planetary War on Terror

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The Colonial Era

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Second Nuclear War (2438–2587)

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Jovian Conflicts of 2687

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Knights

Main Article: KNIGHT Program, and Project: Arthur

Fearing the consequences of the possible breakup of their fledgling interstellar empire, while wishing to preserve as much infrastructure as possible, the United Nations Federation would embark on a series of efforts to quickly deal with insurrections without incurring massive civilian casualties.
Before the USC expanded its forays into biological augmentation to create successful Special Forces programs in the late-27th century, the Colonial Military Administration experimented with a prototype Special Forces projects in the 26th century that tested the effects of bioaugmentations on Marine Corps and Navy personnel. The experiments proved ineffective and were formally canceled as a result, marking the first attempt to create a specialized force of covert-warfare operators in response to insurgent outbursts within the domain of the United Nations Federation.
Due to increasing risk of rebellion activity in the 26th century, the USC's Office of Space Intelligence conceived a project to train Special Forces soldiers in counter-insurgent and counter-revolutionary warfare. The Lancelot Project, was a Special Warfare program, overseen by the CMA, created to train special advanced warfare squads to combat the Rebellion. They became experts in counterinsurgency operations, assassinations, raids, and eliminating high value targets—all considered black operations.
However, expectations for the new soldiers were not met, and the project was deactivated in 2589, and all members reassigned to other Special Operations units. In the coming years, LANCELOT's methodologies would be used as basis for a reform in the Tactical Orbital Defense Troopers, the most famed special operations force of the USC Armed Forces.
In 2694, OSI's alarming projections on colonial instability prompted them to initiate a second generation supersoldier project which would come to be known as the program. Partly informed by the pioneering efforts of ARTHUR with new methodologies conceived by Dr. Leslie Andrews, the new program introduced aspects such as the conscription of mentally and physically gifted individuals who would be molded into the perfect instruments to quell rebel leadership and thus prevent the predicted scenario of indefinite all-out war. Physically augmented and equipped with the new state-of-the-art [GEN3] EXCALIBER Powered Armor, Knights proved to be the most effective soldiers fielded by the USC, though after several years their role soon shifted from quelling rebellion; the attack of the genocidal Hivivian quickly saw the Knights reallocated to combat the new enemy.

Second Energy War (2695 – 2700)

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Human-Hivivian War

Main Article: Human-Hivivian War

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First Contact

Hivivian

Main Article: Hivivian Empire

Stemming from the encounter of human and Hivivian forces at New Earth, the contact made between humanity and the Hivivian involved the Russian planet, Aurora, and was less than peaceful for first contact made between the two factions. An unofficial meeting between representatives of the two factions took place on the fields of Aurora, but the attempt at diplomacy soon turned into a bloodbath. The Hivivian claimed the planet for the numerous "Trek'on relics" their luminaries had detected, and slaughtered all of the colony's population.
On April 17, after pretending not to know what happened, the New Soviet Union requested the aid of the UNF's United Space Command, who sent a small fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Gregory Armstrong to investigate cessation of communications between Aurora and the New USSR. Before being destroyed by Hivivian forces, the fleet discovered that the planet's surface had been completely devastated. In orbit around the remains of the colony world was a single alien ship which proceeded to attack the battle group, destroying them all except two. Intercepted communications identified the enemy as the Hivivian, a caste-driven, technocratic organization made up of several alien species. The message "Your destruction is inevitable...for trespassing in our territory! Die now in terror!" was broadcast in perfect English. The war for mankind's very survival had begun.
Merely hours after the USC's fleet was destroyed above Aurora, multiple distress signals were broadcasted this time in UNF controlled space closing in on the colony world of New Earth.

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Caniic Hierarchy

Main Articles: Caniic, Tigriic, and Sauruanian

Within the following weeks after the fall of New Earth, the USC Blue Dawn and her crew encountered several Hivivian warships while searching nearby space for any trace of the UNF President's starship. Taking heavy damage, the Dawn's commander, Colonel Kody Davidson, was about to order all hands to abandend ship when out of no where fifteen warships of unknown origin dropped out of hyperspace and almost immitiately opened up fire on the Hivivian ships. Feeling greatful for the rescue, and wanting to 'look a gift horse in the mouth', Colonel Davidson opened a comm channel to new ships and parhaps start peaceful dialog with who or whatever was onboard.
Those unknown ship were in fact crewed by a peaceful yet militaristic race of wolf-like beings known as Caniic, who as it so happens, were too on a rescue mission against the Hivivian. While lacking any formal authority to begin an alliance, Kody did promise to assist the Caniic in their mission thinking that he might figure out where President Brandon Carter was; hoping that he too was a captive of the Hivivian. The Caniic leader, Governor-General Jaal Vaniic, assigned his own son and two combat units to stay onboard the Blue Dawn as emissaries, and Colonel Davidson did the same by assigning a KNIGHT unit and OSI team to Vaniic's capital ship, the Space Claw.

Organization

The United Space Command is subordinate to the United Nations Federation. The professional, controlling body of the USC is the USC High Command (HIGHCOM), headed by the USC Security Council which convenes in HIGHCOM Facility, the USC's headquarters in New Washington D.C., North Carolina, USA.
Within HIGHCOM are a number of administrative commands, including PERSCOM, the Medical Corps, the Engineering Corps, Human Resources, and Astrophysics. Legal matters such as the issuing and enforcement of protocols are handled by the USC Judge Advocate General's Corps. Research designed to improve the USC's operations is carried out by the Internal Audit office.
Also under HIGHCOM's command are the USC Armed Forces, which handle the defense of UNF territory. Control is exercised through regional CENTCOMs, which have responsibility over certain areas of space. The Armed Forces encompass the USC Army, the USC Navy, the USC Air Force, the USC Marine Corps, and the Tactical Orbital Defense Troopers. The Navy houses the Marine Corps, (with the Tactical Orbital Defense Troopers being an independent branch of the Marine Corps), the Office of Space Intelligence (OSI), and the Fleet. The Army and Air Force maintain garrisons on colony worlds. When certain rebellious factions began to rise in 2715, the USC was forced to police its protected colonies tirelessly to keep privateers and pirates from raiding the colonies and any USC ships. On 2701, Knight Operations became the seventh and newest branch of the USC, responsible for command of special operations undertaken by the first generation of augmented soldiers. The Knights are the smallest operational component in the entire Armed Forces.
In an effort to maintain a constant supply of service members, the USC offers all able-bodied civilians the chance to enlist in various branches of the Armed Forces at automated USC recruiting centers. Numerous recruiting centers can be found throughout populated metropolitan areas.
The USC is also responsible for the overseeing and regulation of commerce throughout UNF space through the Department of Commercial Shipping. The USC also maintains the USC Symphony Orchestra and the USC Jazz Band as ceremonial musical units.
The USC also has a working relationship with a number of human companies, a number of whom provide materiel. These include Mars Corps Armory, Avalon Security, Saturn Armory Incorporated, Northern Defense Corporation, Anderson Mobile Technologies, Defense Transportation Corps, Wind Corps Engineering, Frostfire Industries, Defense Weapon Systems, Washington Machine Complex, Milia Steel and Shipbuilding, Star Motors Incorporated, and Titan Tactical Systems among many others.

Organizational structure of the USC USC Security Council • Covert Services • USC High Command • USC Naval Command • USC Fleet Command • Unified Ground Command • USC Personnel Command • USC Medical Corps • USC Engineering Corps • USC Logistical Corps • Office of Space Intelligence • USC Panther Corps • USC Signal Corps • USC Internal Audit • Office of Investigations • USC Human Resources • USC Astrophysics • USC Testing and Evaluation Command • USC Astronavigation • USC Department of Commercial Shipping • USC Judge Advocate General's Corps • USC Department of Doctrine and Training • USC Fleet Auxiliary • USC Archive Division • Incident Response and Investigation

Technology

By the time the Hivivian War began, humanity, and thus the USC, had reached Tier 3 of the Trek'on civilization rank system. Humanity's rank continued to rise due to the capture of Hivivian technology and equipment, which was studied and adapted for human needs. The very best and cutting edge of USC equipment was supplied to the KNIGHT project. Human technology is innovative, rather than reverse-engineered from Trek'on technology. This means humanity remains flexible in their technical expertise, despite being thousands of years behind the Hivivian.

Public perception

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Active

2110

Allegiance

United Nations Federation

Headquarters

HIGHCOM Facility, New Washington D.C., North Carolina, USA, Earth

Type

Military, exploratory, and scientific force

Role

Military defense of Earth and her colonies

Commanders

Commander of the USC/Chairman Martin Gains

Commander of the Army - Katie Watson

Commander of Naval Operations - Randall Barnett

Commander of the Marine Corps - Haiden Glenn

Commander of the Air Force - Zachary Dawson

Commander of the TODT - Isaac Bennett

Commander of Knight Operations - Melissa Donalson

Engagements

Planetary War on Terror (2075 – present)

First Energy War

Martian Rebellions of 2380

Second Nuclear War (2438–2587)

Jovian Conflicts of 2687

Second Energy War (2695 – 2700)