Portal:Post-War Era

Outline of Daybreak's version of the post-war era.

Related pages:
 * Reconciliation Era

Interspecies politics

 * Who are the major Jiralhanae factions operating in Human territory

Initially, most of them just call themselves "the Covenant", maintaining the Covenant never fell, and claim to be fulfilling the Hierarchs' will. However, rifts between different chieftains start forming from the very first months onward, and while they themselves may continue to refer to themselves as the Covenant, the UNSC and the Concord will quickly adopt more descriptive nomenclature. As time goes on, the Brute factions start diverging more and more ideologically and politically. By 2558, most Brute factions have been driven out of human space, though the war continues to rage in the Covenant's spinward side.


 * The Torchbearers - a prominent coalition of Jiralhanae warmasters operating in the human sphere, established in the first half of 2553. Prominent leaders: Belgarum, Garanthus, Maractus.
 * The Keepers of the One Freedom - split off from the Covenant loyalists in 2554


 * Who are the major Sangheili factions operating in Human territory. Who is working with the UNSC, who is secretly undermining them

Most allied factions (essentially outgrowths of existing Covenant fleets) are also aligned with the Concord of Reconciliation, at least at first, since the Concord was initially a pact between Thel, Rtas, and fleetmasters they rallied to their side in human space during the early months of 2553. However, this changes especially with outlying fleets operating near the Tempest Crossing, Pleiades Corridor, as well as the now largely glassed sectors, which host various unaffiliated factions. Some are even tentative allies to the UNSC, but against the Arbiter.


 * What kinds of joint operations and civilian efforts do the UNSC and the Concord engage in?


 * The ANVIL initiative could be incorporated in some form; i.e. there are no S-IVs, but there can be joint ops. The distinction from 343i's canon is that such initiatives and ops aren't top secret; instead, they're highly publicized (at least when successful), because the UNSC wants to shift the public's opinion on the allied ex-Covenant, and they can't do that if they keep any and all cooperation secret.


 * The Contrite, while not a formal appendage of the Concord, are a group of (mainly Sangheili) monastics who aid in reconstruction efforts, though mostly on a localized level.


 * Some civilian reconstruction stuff


 * What are the strategic focal points that everyone is fighting over?


 * The Installation 04 debris field
 * Earth remains in a precarious position thanks to the presence of the Voi Excession.
 * The Epsilon Eridani system remains a strategic site thanks to its location in a slipspace crossroads. It is retaken by a joint UNSC-Concord task force in the very first weeks of 2553.
 * Any systems along major slipspace routes, and worlds of note in those systems.

Humanity, UNSC, and the Phoenix Initiative
The Phoenix Initiative is more akin to a mutual defense/cooperation pact and economic union initiated by the UNSC than a cohesive polity in the truest sense. There are various degrees of cooperation within the Initiative, with many of the former Inner Colonies in particular assuming a more core role than some Outer ones, which only involve themselves in a peripheral status. The Initiative's purview mostly covers matters of security and resettlement-related issues, outside which its ability to interfere in the member worlds' affairs is limited.
 * How is the Phoenix Initiative put together? What is its relationship to the UNSC and UEG?

In theory, the Phoenix Initiative seeks to reclaim most colonies lost during the war. In practice, however, this is not exactly feasible, or only feasible over a timeline spanning several centuries. The immediate concern in the post-war decades remains to find enough viable space to put all the people displaced by the war and give them at least basic humane living conditions, and preferably something productive to do.
 * What are the Phoenix Initiative's major colonization efforts? What are the hotspots of the reclamation process post-war? On what kind of timeline do these efforts take place in?

Reclamation projects of note:
 * Reach - long-term restoration project.
 * Tribute - got off a bit more lightly than Reach, prioritized for resettlement.
 * Sigma Octanus IV
 * Ariel
 * Atlas Moons (some)
 * Emerald Cove
 * New Jerusalem
 * Draco III

New colonies:


 * Under what industrial constraints is the UNSC operating under, and how does that industry expand?

A big issue is that most of their industry will have to be built again from scratch, though on the plus side this also means it'll be modern. Some existing industries in Sol and Epsilon Eridani were evacuated to other systems away from the Covenant in the final years of the war, though this ultimately represented only a fraction of the UNSC's industrial prowess.


 * What are the veterans doing now that the Army and Marines are downsizing?

Many will enlist their services to private security companies attached to reclamation or recolonization efforts, or establish their own. Some can act as military advisors to new colonists, training local militias.


 * How will the UNSC change its doctrine in the years after the war?

This will mostly be influenced by what the UNSC needs to secure and defend, and against who: i.e. both remaining and new colonies against not just pirates and raiders, but factions of ex-Covenant marauders.


 * How internally cohesive will human civilization be?

More than one might think. There are still dividing lines (e.g. regarding how friendly the UNSC should be with aliens), but no real resurgence of the Insurrection like in 343i's fiction.


 * Misc. things to consider


 * The remaining Spartan-IIIs, mostly Gamma Company. They'll be filling the niche the S-IVs do in 343i's lore for the most part, just less colorful and publicized.
 * Since Ackerson is still around, S-III Delta Company goes forward despite the loss of Onyx, albeit with a lower budget and therefore personnel pool.
 * Non-Spartan augmentation programs and the proliferation of augs and cybertech in the private sector.
 * The ODST's Hoplite program becomes more established, and more of its own thing. It's still not as prominent as the S-IVs, but it's probably the closest thing there will be to one.