Mass Effect: Dreams of Stone and Dust - Codex Chapter 1: UPSC and UNSC, a Halo + Mass Effect Crossover fanfic

Mass Effect: Of Stone and Dust

Codex

U.P.S.C.:

Established in the year 2356, the United Planetary Systems Alliance is the overarching government of humanity and consists of representatives of every planetary government existing in U.N.S.C. space.

It was created to stop another Earth-Mars war from ever occurring again, and to prevent later colonies from becoming independent nations. Its parliament consists of representatives of all U.P.S.C. worlds, with Earth and Mars possessing veto rights. The number of representatives is dependant on the number of states on the planet.

A state is heavily regulated by size and number of inhabitants, and Covus oversees any unregularity between state number and actual inhabitants.

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U.N.S.C.:

The United Nations Space Command is the strong right hand of the U.P.S.C., enforcing laws on all colonies and protecting the citizens of humanity. The U.N.S.C. created the then three, now four, major governmental defence divisions in the year 2145.

The first where the Sentinels, tasked with policing the colonial administrations, supplying frontline troops in times of war and the enforcement of law and order on the colonized planets. After many years the Sentinels learned how to cooperate effectively with colonial militia and police forces, establishing themselves in the eye of the public as knights in shining armour.

The Sentinels are the only Department with access to ATLAS-class or Colossus-class Javelins.

Then there is the Legion. They are the explorational and colonial aspect of the U.N.S.C., controlling anything concerning the establishment of new colonies, terraforming new planets, establishing landing zones for invasions and any new Forerunner technology.

After working together with the engineering corps for such a long time, they became masterful engineers themselves and started the construction of their own specialised vessels, the Pheonix-class Colonial Support Vessel and the Prowler fleet.

The Legion also provides the infiltration and recon teams for the standing U.N.S.C. army. They always work closely with the Sentinels to protect the cities on border planets, which are not as secure as the core planets.

Most people fear the Legion for the incredibly fast and stealthy Infiltrator-class Javelins that they possess.

The third Department are the Archivists, they are assigned the scientific aspect of the U.N.S.C. Nearly all new technological developments come out of their closed hall. Recruiting from an early age, most Archivists don't see the outside world for nearly 15 years, after which they have the right to venture out into the galaxy.

Most young Archivists team together with a local Legionnaires team or find a Freelancer team, which they can use to obtain new samples of alien flora and fauna.

The only fighting teams that the Archivists possess are the Storm-class Javelin pilots, which are incredibly powerful. They can bend natural gravity fields and control natural phenomena like electricity, fire and frost to combat their enemies. Nothing is more frightening then a team of Storm-class Titans work together to summon gigantic firestorms or generate blizzards.

The U.N.S.C. established the last Division in the year 2354, called Corvus. Corvus is the internal police force of the U.N.S.C., tasked with supervising the other divisions and the brass to make sure that no humanitarian laws are broken. Many Freelancers from the Archivists and the Legion end up in Corvus, because they are not allowed to directly recruit from the military academies. Other responsibilities are the protection of VIPs, surveillance of state enemies, internet security, finance control and deep space surveillance.

U.N.S.C. Command Structure:

High Admiral - Directors of the four Departments - Admiral - Vice Admiral - General - Colonel - Major - Captain - Lieutenant

At the very top resides the High Admiral. A High Admiral normally served as a Admiral for around 15 years before being admitted into the rank of High Admiral. There is always only one High Admiral in active service, even though retired High Admirals are encouraged to return to active service in times of war.

The Directors of the four Departments (Legionnaires, Sentinels, Archivists and Corvus) are semi-independant from the U.N.S.C. command structure, but have to answere to the currently acting High Admiral. A Director is always promoted from the higher ranks of the affected department, without influence of outside sources.

There are currently 15 Admirals, each of them is overseeing one of the most important fleets of the U.N.S.C., for example: Homefleet-01 above Earth is overseen by Admiral Kastani Drescher, Defensefleet-56 above Reach by Malcolm Fitzgerald, Attackfleet-15 at Arcturus by Ismail Üzbey and Explorationfleet-02 above Anthem at Jumppoint Zero by Andrea Goldbaum.

U.N.S.C. Buildphilosophy:

The U.N.S.C. began to construct settlements on rimworlds as bunkercities after the destruction of most of the U.P.S.C. colony worlds by Covenant forces [Glassing through Plasmabombardment by Covenant capital ships].

Nowadays most cities consist of a top-side recreation and agricultural district and a down-side industrialised, residential district. All existential services, like water treatment, main generators and food storages, are required to be build underground, in case of an invasion or the destruction of the uppermost planetary crust.

All cities can survive for at least half a year before rationing sets in and can then still hold out for at least another year.

U.P.S.C. Races:

Humans:

The Humans, where the first member race of the U.P.S.C. and still hold most of the high-ranking positions. Most planets are mainly colonized by humans and humanity now numbers around 50 billion.

Tevarin:

The Tevarin, an avian race from an oceanic homeworld, where once bitter enemies of the U.P.S.C., but lost their "holy war" against the Humans. After nearly losing their planet because of their own high admiral, the remaining Tevarin surrendered and asked the U.P.S.C. to support their dying race, in exchange for their technology. Now they are the biggest supporters of the democratic system, even though they still live in mainly militaristic colonies.

Huragok:

The Huragok, where once a slave race of the Holy Covenant. These bio-mechanical constructs are dependent on their surrounding environment for protection and willingly joined the U.P.S.C. after their main colonies were freed.

Drell:

The reptilian Drell are from the now lost Homeworld of Rakhana. They possess a naturally eidetic memory, which forces them to always remember anything that they lived through. After nearly nuking themselves back into the stone age, the Drell, where saved by a major humanitarian intervention by the Legionnaires.

Over 10 billion Drell, where saved from their failing Homeworld and resettled on various human and Tevarin desert colonies. It is known, that the Drell where already visited once by an extra-terrestrial species, but they only saved a small amount of their race for their skin colour.

Only green Drell, where saved for a specific reason by the illustrious Hanar and the rest of their race was left behind. The biggest concentration of Drell live on the Shieldworld Delta and support the Legionnaires.

Unggoy:

The Unggoy are a short, methane breathing, crustatean race from the world of Balaho. They are mainly farmers and builders because of their naturally fearful disposition.

Many Clans are part of the newly formed Sangheili Protectorate, but a not small number of clans merged with the U.P.S.C.

They once worked as a slave race and meat shield for the San'Shyuum in the Covenant.