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screwcharms · 5 months

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#halo #the covenant #the UNSC #meme #the indomitable human spirit

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helix-studios117 · 2 months

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Halo Reloaded: The UNSC

Named "The United Nations Star Council" in this AU, my depiction of the UNSC is far less "morally-gray at best, straight up diabolical fascism at worst." I'm sure ther eare people who find that moral-ambiguity interesting, but the point of my AU, or at least of the things about it that DIVERGES it from the main universe, is that everything is supposed to be streamlined (plus, I'm a sucker for more straight-forward 'good vs evil' stories). While bad people can do bad things in the military, the UNSC is largely a force for good. Less the "Galactic Empire" (Star Wars) and more "The Terran Federation" (Starship Troopers). Instead of a shady, militaristic and authoritarian 'Big Brother' empire, it's a libertarian one-world republic that DOESN'T spy on it's citizens with 24/7 surveillance.

Of course, the UNSC has had little to no involvement with the Spartan-Programs Orion to III, all three of which were done behind the scenes by ONI.

The Spartan-II Program isn't nearly as bad as it is in-canon, but they still weaponize children all of the same and The UNSC was just as surprised as everyone else was. They shut down production of the Spartan-III Program after Ackerson got ousted, remeding the situation by placing the IIIs under the care of the II and prohibiting them from seeing battle until the IIs make the call (and most of them don't think the IIIs are ready for action). They can't reverse what's been done to them, it'll kill them; this was the best they could do: Give the IIIs families, families that are just like them and completely understand them.

The UNSC being a "Council" stems from it being, well... a council; it's led by Lord Hood, an admiral who is the head of the council. But in a more meta-sense, it's renamed "The United Nations Star Council" as a reference to the "United Earth Space Council" (the UESC) which is the leading government-body in the MARATHON series (Bungie's original Sci-Fi FPS before Halo and Destiny).

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bloodgulchblog · 1 year

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As a recent convert, I think one of the things that gets me about the UNSC, for all that it contains many of our most beloved faces and characters, is absolutely the turbofascist monolithic antagonist of a hundred other works of fiction and yet here, somehow, remains the singular edifice standing between humanity and extinction when it came to the Covenant. It’s literally one of the worst things to happen to mankind except for \this particular incident/ and it’s maddening. Like I’m reading all this shit about Parangosky and Halsey today, and combing the wikis, and I’m just in awe- esp how that would like, ‘justify’ it’s existence in-universe ( even if it actually still wouldn’t have been enough! If the Prophets had waited like a week to kick things off it would have been over. )

Wild.

Welcome to, and my condolences for, Halo!

I think part of what's going on is: Halo borrows really openly from some source material, and two of the most obvious contributors to its DNA are Alien/Aliens and Starship Troopers. Halo: Combat evolved isn't just about shooting alien soldiers, it's also about the horror of encountering a new and scary parastic threat that's even more alien than the known enemy. (Someone with deeper pre-release Halo familiarity than me would have to confirm this, but I'm under the impression that the Flood was not mentioned anywhere before the game came out and it was a big surprise.)

Both of these sources feature pretty grim settings where you are not supposed (....at least in the film version of Starship Troopers, it's been a long time since I engaged with Starship Troopers in any form so I'm running on thinner memory ice here) to view the government/military as good and heroic.

One of the things that really cheered me up about Halo this year was finally reading Contact Harvest (which was released pretty much concurrently with Halo 3) and seeing in very clear terms how well Joseph Staten understood that this setting is incredibly fucked up. It's that way intentionally. Early Halo knows that the UNSC is the cudgel the Unified Earth Government is using to bludgeon the colony worlds into line and that this shit is not okay. We do get heroic UNSC characters all the time, but... I don't think that entirely derails the idea, because heroic and good individuals cannot overturn the badness of a whole power structure. (Also, Nylund absolutely loved brave and noble ship captains who are trying their best to do the right thing when faced with complicated and terrible choices, and really, who doesn't.)

I feel like the point where it starts to break down is as Halo went on to be not just a trilogy of games, but a huge ongoing media property where they (and by they I mean 343/Microsoft, because the rot really starts to set in by that point) had to keep figuring out reasons to make video games about this. And Halo's games have never been particularly good at calling out the fraught sociopolitical Stuff going on in the Halo universe, and thus the UNSC gets off looking way cleaner than it actually is unless you are big enough of a nerd to get into the expanded lore.

So, by trying to just continue what worked before and make UNSC Good Aliens Bad FPSes while the apocalyptic alien xenocide war is over, you end up with the weird situation where it feels like the big drivers of Halo canon don't want to rock the boat on the UNSC. That's how we get shit like the Spartan-IVs being presented as the "unproblematic" Spartan program even if the motives are the same and the ethics are still rancid.

Honestly, that's probably why they went with Cortana going off the chain in Halo 5. It raised the already-ugly issue of how badly AIs are treated in the UNSC, but it handily dodged having to deal with the much more mundane and close-to-reality issue of using military force for control over people.

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vyorei · 2 months

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