Alright people, apologies here but this isn't a full chapter. Things are going to be getting a great deal more complicated and I'll be introducing a bunch of new political groups so I've written up a bit of required reading on how the Haloverse is currently setup.
Yendarman, if I could understand what you were saying I wouldn't consider you annoying and/or stupid.
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/ACCESS: The United Systems Assembledge: A Move of Desperation, by Dr. Demeter Kiev
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Foreword by Dr. Catheine Halsey.
Let it never be said that humanity is not an opportunistic species. In every encounter and at every chance, humanity has sought to derive whatever opportunity it can from any situation it has found itself in. Fire likely came from a chance discovery of something caused by nature. Weapons from naturally occurring stones with faults that left them razor sharp. Supremacy from any weakness the opponent ever showed.
In the wake of the in Great War against the Covenant Hegemony that left the UEG and UNSC on the brink of collapse, humanity looked in every possible direction for whatever advantage could be gained in order to recover our fledgling interstellar empire. Even seeking treaties and peace with some of our former enemies became reasonable if it helped us recover, for some could see how they had been used, and many knew just how they had come to our aid and rescue as the Covenant laid siege to our home world.
With such flexibility new governments and idealogies form, including what is now known as the United Species Assembledge. This hodgepodge of varied species, many once detested as the near blood enemies of humanity, now aid us in our times of need as we aid them in their times as well. The unique structure bears resemblance to old Earth governments only with varied parts crushed into one mass and forced to work together towards a common set of goals: survival and stability.
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Following the Human-Covenant War, more colequently known as the 'Great War' to both scholars and average citizens, human civilization was on the very brink of collapse if it was not already in the proccess of doing so. With nearly the entirey of the colonies burned to ashen cinders and billions upon billions of humans dead, most of the infrastructure that supported the UEG economy was destroyed.
Compared to humanity, much of the former Covenant Hegemony's economic base survived the war despite the best efforts of the UNSC. What this conglomerate of aliens lacked however was a defining leadership that could prevent further inner conflict, something humanity had been lucky enough to maintain. Through efforts by the Sangeheili known as the Arbiter as well as Rtas Vandum, Admiral of the fleet Terrance Hood and then newly elected President Andrew R. Strauss. Though largely admitted to by all parties involved at the start, the policy brought forth by these four was for UEG and UNSC assets to be used to establish stable, long-term governments for the former Covenant species through consensus, coercion, and brute force as required to establish stability and peace across as much of known space as possible using techniques and methods honed by millennia of trial and error in Earth's ancient governments. In exchange, intact former Covenant economic facilities and stockpiles would be used to help re-establish the UEG and UNSC and rebuild humanity's colonies while working to raise the level of trust and lessen the still prevalent xenophobia most humans had after the war through direct human-alien interact and by having former Covenant species be able to be observed directly helping human beings.
Further evide-
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The eclectic collection of governments that make up the United Species Assembledge are almost always at after each other in terms of policy and trade, much like the old nations of Earth; however, unlike them, the ruling council that bears direct resemblance and was in fact based upon the old UN with several major differences from the ineffective body that used to help govern our home world and in fact became the UEG.
The base governments of each member species of the Assembledge; the Ship Mothers of the Kig-yar, the Matrons of the Unggoy, the High Council of the Sangeheili, the Collossus of the Lekgolo, and the Senate and President of the UEG, all select a single representative from their species who they believe will best respect their species interests on the galactic theater. These members form the Assembledge Council which decides matters of security, interspecies trade, interspecies disputes, and several other matters.
This Council is directly related to the old UN in design barring several differences including that laws made and passed by the Council trump all other laws until challenged in court, in which case the state must make the case for the reasoning behind the law's necessity. This ability to challenge laws is a hold over and direct parallel to the judicial system of the United States on pre-UEG Earth, only stream lined and with a great deal of effort made to cut out the usual biases that can show up.
Beyond laws made by the Council, all species are free to regulate their own laws as they wish providing they do not violate a series of base rights determined and agreed upon at the founding of the Assembledge that again draws many of its parallels from the pre-UEG United States. These laws require equal pay for all people for the same job, regardless of gender or species provided they meet the minimum expectations of their employment, the full outlawing of slavery occurred as it had still been an occasional practice among Kig-yar pirates, this was elevated to a capital offense, and several other laws based around discrimination. Of note, much like the United States of old, the Assembledge has no official language, however for simplicity's sake, Englush was universally adopted as the agreed upon trade language meaning that many member species are bilingual at the very least.
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So there's a bit of back information for you about the Haloverse now that 35 years have passed in the political world. The next chapter will be out soon I hope, not sure though, finals are almost here.