We all know the UNSC but i have come to think about somthing. Is the unsc a dictatorship?
They have a sigle army, and the oni is kinda a political police.
They can do whatever they want and nobody can stop them without disappearig.
A rebelion begin before the contact with the covnants.
What do you think?
Before the Great War, the UNSC installed military governors to oversee the wayward, rebellious colonies in their pacification of the Outer Colonies. They deployed Earth’s United Nations Space Command to police those populations instead of boosting civilian law enforcement and security agencies, or even utilizing the native guard, the Colonial Military Administration.
Concerning a dictatorship, perhaps. The civilian government who was ceded control from the United Nations Space Command following the end of the war with the Covenant is likely a democratically elected body, though I would imagine that there are strict laws in place determining who is granted suffrage. The UNSC as a whole seems supportive of this body and likely doesn’t want the Outer Colonies to get the image that they solely are in command of Humanity’s empire. You can definitely see dictatorial tendencies and ambitions within the Office of Naval Intelligence and with the office of its commander-in-chiefs, Admiral Serin Osman, and formerly Admiral Margaret Parangosky.
Dictatorship or not, at the core of Human civilization in the Haloverse is a fledgling, yet dying empire grasping at every colony it can to secure control. Those who are governed under its rule, and not its care, is the same story that oppressed people have lived through and fought against for centuries.
um that was how I saw it I mean after the human covenant war started the government relinquished all control over to the UNSC which was never fully returned after the war which. though when I say the UNSC I would rather say ONI because the UNSC has been ONI’s pet ever since Parangosky centralised all covert operations, intelligence, special projects and communications lines and with the UEG relinquishing command it meant that ONI could have a field day with earth and its colonies, though meaning well for the overall survival of humanity were still very much dictators about their actions I mean the only obstruction between ONI and the rest of the world was the UEG but before it was removed it was the play toy of the UNSC and after being removed from the picture meant that ONI could very well operate without any resistance.
When the Covenant began attacking colonies, the UEG turned over control to the UNSC to effeciently coordinate the war. The UNSC is led by a board of admirals, directors, and other high political/military commanders.
Not really a dictatorship, but they did, appropriately, have a pretty tight hold on the colonies during the war.
ONI is an intelligence division of the UNSC. They gained a lot of power and reach throughout the war due to its importance, and now ONI is relatively feared by many, giving them some increased abilities. The head of ONI has a lot of influence.
After the war, a lot of the UNSC’s power has now been turned back to the UEG, the civilian governing body. This is a Republic, led by a President.
So, I wouldn’t say they are a dictatorship. Technically, the UNSC answers to a republic now. However, they were controlling, as they needed to be, during the war, and some shifts in power still remain after the war.
Use this as a source:
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/humans (“Government” section)
“A shadow government within the human sphere directed largely by the Office of Naval Intelligence and its various bureaus”
It’s officially a rappresentative democracy, but there is a strong shadow government consisting in ONI (probably CINCONI specifically), that heavily influences the UEG.
The UNSC can nuke a colony (eg: Far Isle), practice extrajudicial assassinations (eg: Halsey, or political opponents recently killed by S-IVs during the postwar period; see H4 EVG), install mega-corporate governments (eg: Andesia), organize extremely unethical experiments (eg: S-II/III programs), seize a planet’s executive power and control its economy and borders (eg: with the Trade Alliance). Most people would feel sympathetic to the UNSC because they were “the good ones” when they fought for the survival of humanity during the Covenant War. And that’s also the way we have seen them in the games. So it feels normal to like the UNSC. But it doesn’t remove their own fascistic/imperialist/colonialist tendencies. Most of them unrelated to the Covenant War, and with the aim of controlling the Outer colonies to sustain Earth and the Inner colonies, and the political/military/corporate elites. You can vote, but it’s not going to solve all those problems. The insurrectionists have had a clumsy reaction, but their cause in itself has a legitimate basis.
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> Use this as a source:
> https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/humans (“Government” section)
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> “A shadow government within the human sphere directed largely by the Office of Naval Intelligence and its various bureaus”
> It’s officially a rappresentative democracy, but there is a strong shadow government consisting in ONI (probably CINCONI specifically), that heavily influences the UEG.