United Nations Space Command

L United Nations Space Command (UNSC) is a coalition present in the video games Halo and Halo 2 , in Halo 1 and the books one will find the equivalent of the French acronym is CSNU (Space Command of the United Nations).

Description

The UNSC is a world military alliance in the saga Halo.

Context

In 2552, humanity extended in space. Million men and women live from now on on tens of worlds similar to the Earth. The spaceships are been driven by Shaw-Fujikawa engines making it possible to travel more quickly than the light via the " under-espace" , or " hyper-espace" , putting the most remote stars at a few weeks of voyage. After a few decades, humanity had created a modern stellar empire which extended and was affirmed more and more.

The principal head office of the UNSC was on the Reach planet, which was also the space main port of the human Command.

When Covenant Alliance was at the head put to destroy the human race and all that it had carried out, under the pretext that this race was impure and unworthy of the gods covenants (cf the Forerunners), the UNSC ensured the defense of the human colonies. In spite of their good will and their perseverance, the forces of the UNSC could not reverse the course of the conflict; the enemy was indeed technologically more advanced. Thus, the man power moved back little by little and the losses increased always more.

Measurements taken by the UNSC within the framework of the war

In order to contain the Covenant threat, the staff taken of drastic measurements in particular in the field of the information, the communications and information. The admiral Preston Cole published a note, the future " Cole" protocol; , which ordered with the vessels and the troops to destroy any information (in particular flight plans) being able to lead to the Earth.

During this time, the human scientists did not remain the arms crosseds; Many scientific progresses and technological transfer the day, like the gun with magnetic acceleration or the program Spartan . According to the leaders of the UNSC, this program was the key which was going to reverse the war in their favor.

Project SPARTAN II

Developed on Reach , this project aimed at developing troops of elites which can stop the civil war which, according to the statistics, was going soon to burst at the human ones. But the hostility of the Covenants encouraged the government to make of Spartans the last line of defense protecting the mankind.

Several tens of Spartans were thus close with the combat but unfortunately, they were not enough numerous to reverse the war alone. Just could they gain some battles. At this point in time the Covenant fleet taken by Reach storm and swept human defenses. It was an hard blow for the UNSC because the fleet of Reach was one of most powerful, only the land fleet was higher to him.

Nevertheless, at least a vessel could escape: The Pillar off Fall , a Cruiser of combat of Halcyon class. Ordered by the captain Jacob Keyes , the vessel had on its board a hope: the last known specimen of the program Spartan-II : the adjudant John, Spartan 117 , whose family name remains unknown, and called: Master Chief .

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