It's the year 2570 , mankind is slowly rebuilding after a devastating mostly one sided war.
Mankind fought a alliance of alien races called 'The Covenant' for twenty-two years which resulted in the near extinction of mankind. Billions were slain, dozens of worlds were destroyed and both fleets of spaceships were reduced to a handful. It was only due to the efforts of the human super soldiers called 'Spartans' and a portion of the Covenant led by the Sangheili (Called Elites in human tongue) mankind survived.
Fifteen years have passed since the end of the war, the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) and the Sangheili Alliance (consisting of a alliance of all the tribes on the homeworld) were at peace and decided to work together for a better future.
Due to the Sangheili having relied on the rest of the Covenant to build and maintain their ships, they found themselves in need in creating a new kind of spaceship to pursue the war with the remnants of the Covenant. Mankind, having the resources and minds for this task, made a proposition.
They would teach and help the Elites build their new space ships in exchange for trade rights, aid in terraforming worlds that were glassed (orbitally bombarded by plasma) and a space station between UNCS and Alliance space.
This station would be created with a unique blend of Covenant and human technology and to show the galaxy the new friendships between the two people. However many survivors and veterans of the Great War recall the atrocities committed by the other side, with quite a few rallying together in terrorist cells and creating movements to oppose the friendship.
However the station, Anchor Seven (but preferably called Armstice Station) was completed with little to no problems and would become the major trading hub between the UNSC and the Alliance.
To open the station, the UNSC send one of their prized officers over who would be present for the opening ceremonies and become the Commander for the station.
His name was Commander Terrence Johnson, the son of one of the human heroes of the war, Sergeant Avery Johnson and the hero of a skirmish between a allied UNSC/Alliance attack on a Convenant stronghold. His role however will be much, much more then being the Commander of one space station...
