UNSC Report
(2174)
Summary: The year was a winding down of exploration as the UNSC survey fleets returned home after their standard four year tour of duty, it was also a turbulent year as the political election closed in for the entire UEG, with the question of how the new colonies would be represented, especially those who were formerly in arms against the United Nations years prior, even with the war over the UNSC decided to put all ships at alert status over the week election period to ensure security, in better news the world of Ballast received its first colonists and Andraste was delivered further infrastructure to assist it in colonisation efforts, with the CAA believing that jump stabilisation is the most important tool to permanent colonisation, multiple Endurant class jump stabilisation stations were towed to jump point and began stabilising.
Inner Expansion, Domestic Troubles
(General Assembly of the Unified Earth Government, formerly United Nations)
With slowdown for the UNSC in terms of exploration and an election on the way, only one new system was discovered in the year and instead the year was primarily spent on establishing new colones already known worlds and utilising jump stabilisation technology, politically the elections of the general assembly as well as the election of a president were to be held on the 4th-9th of June, The UNSC Would provide security during this time as it was just less than four years ago that the solar system was engulfed in a politically centred war.
Political Situation of the Unified Earth GovernmentThe Unified Earth Government is a Constitutional Democracy with a parliamentary style system, with Earth controlling one hundred and eighty seats that represent each of the former nations of Earth, while colonies control only one for an entire planet, this has lead to some people demanding reform, suggesting that the current system is weighed in Earths favour and that it does not fairly represent the other planets of the UEG, this critique has remained at a fairly low level though due to the recent war. The election process represents the people of the UEG with each person voting for a member of the general assembly who will then go on to vote for a President every four years, there are currently three parties that hold seats in the General Assembly.
The Conservative PartyThe Conservative Party is considered to be right-of-centre in its policies and traditionally favours small government, fiscal conservatism and economic liberalism, a free-market economy, higher levels of gun control, the promotion of personal responsibility over welfare programs, low taxation and low deficit spending. In recent years the conservative party has been supported by the majority of people due to the interplanetary war and the belief that the other parties policies would not see humanity through the war, the current president is of the conservative party.
The Conservative Party has traditionally found its support in the business community, medium-high income voters, families, Earth and the Inner Colones as well as the military, especially the Officer Corps. This has typically lead to people supporting the conservative party during times of strife or war as the people seek security and the party advertises that it will provide that through military spending, and hard crackdowns. The Conservative party is currently the largest party in the general assembly and holds a majority.
The Liberal PartyThe Liberal Party is considered to be Left-of-Centre in its policies but it also follows a liberal ideology. In recent years it has strayed away from too far of left policies as it did not want to be confused with the terrorist organisation Koslovics that advertise very far of left policies, but in the past it has supported socialist policies such as the public ownership of key industries, government intervention in the economy, the redistribution of wealth, increased rights for workers, the welfare state, high budget deficits in order to pay for social policies, looser gun control, and greater government influence in publicly-funded healthcare and education, all to produce a more egalitarian society. It also has a history of being softer on crime than the conservative party with shorter sentences and greater use of control orders and non-lethal force, it also believes that high defence spending is wasteful and in recent years after the war has seen the necessity of the military as questionable as Humanity faces no threats from the outside, as well as the philosophy that violence never solves anything and these issues can be solved through diplomacy.
The Liberal Party has traditionally found its support among blue-collar workers, low-income voters and families, it is also suggested that the colonies will be of much greater support to them though their effect of the elections are dubious at best. It is currently the second largest party in the general assembly.
The Earth-First PartyThe Earth-First Party is an Earth Nationalist, far-right party that takes the view that all policy decisions should be done for the benefit of Earth's citizens first and the colonies second. It supports completely halting immigration from the colones, with the justification that the colonies contain dangerous terrorists that could come to Earth as refugees after the Interplanetary War, a hard-line approach to crime that favours increasing the number of crimes punished by execution, as well as the re-introduction of corporal punishment. Its economic policy favours protectionism for Earth-made goods, economic nationalism, and corporatism. They propose a high defence budget, the peacetime introduction of conscription and the abolition of gun ownership rights for non-Earth citizens, which they argue would have prevented the interplanetary war if it had been adopted throughout the system, an assertion that is not supported by the overwhelming majority of analysts and historians.
It is a relatively new party that only came into existence during the outset of the war, it only has supporters on Earth and holds no seats within the general assembly but does poll highly in some regions of Earth, it is expected that they will gain at-least two seats in the elections.
Trouble on MarsWith the election closing in, the newly integrated colonies of the UEG would be allowed to vote in the next election but due to the system of how the elections were run which heavily favoured Earth and the fact military forces were still garrisoning former towns, there would be a spark of political unrest as former Koslovic miners would strike, their reasoning behind this was that they were being oppressed and the political system was bankrupt and not properly balanced,
In response to this the president of the UEG authorised the police arm of the civilian government to crack down on the strikes and bring them to a stop before it would get out of control, wanting to end them quickly before the elections, police units were deployed to the hubs of Mars and multiple arrests were made as well as the dispersing of large gatherings, the strikes would subside for now but the issue itself had not been fixed, for now the crisis was averted.
(Police Units look on towards a crowd of Protesters)
The Election of 2174With June closing in each party was readying themselves for the elections, most analysts believed that the conservative party would retain a majority in parliament as most of its actions had been popular among the citizens of the UEG, recent crackdowns on Mars had stunted this growth though. The Liberal party was expected to gain some seats among the colonies while Earth-First was seen as a wild card, below are the results of the Election, there are a total of one hundred and ninety seats with a party requiring one hundred seats to hold a majority in the general assembly.
The Conservative Party:336 Million votes - 115 Seats
With the recent actions of the government and the colonisation and exploration of new star systems, the people rallied behind the conservative party believing that they were leading the country forward, with the treaty of Callisto, the colonisation of Andraste and Ballast, this result means they still hold a majority.
The Liberal Party145 Million votes - 72 Seats
An increase over last election cycle with the party gaining twelve more seats in the general assembly, while this was a victory they were not able to gain a majority, analysts say the reason for an increase in seats over the previous election was due to the newly integrated colonies as well as the extra-solar colonies as their voter base heavily supported the Liberal party in the polls.
The Earth-First Party15 Million votes - 2 seats
While they received a meagre fifteen million votes and only two seats this was the first time they have ever held a seat in the general assembly and many analysts would suggest the reason for this support to the party was because of the end of the war and the belief among certain demographics that terrorist threat was still around and the government was not doing anything about it.
Results of the Election
With the majority in the general assembly sustained by the conservative party and increases for the liberal and Earth first parties it would be an interesting presidential term, with Lance Laskey elected again for a second term into office, he would make a speech after hearing the election news.
I am so proud of this government, this party, with your faith put into us we shall continue as we have started and bring humanity into a new age, a age without the strife and conflict of the past decade, now with these results I shall go forward and uphold my mandate, we shall support the voters who remained true to us and those who joined us as equals, we shall uphold humanities values, policies and ethics in our continued colonisation of the stars.
With that being said, I also want to congratulate my political opponents on a job well done and for a smooth election process, I am sure we will be able to work together to make decisions on what is best for humanity, for with unity and resolve we can bring forth this golden age, thank you and good night!
General Report
(January - December)
January:January - 17th, The UNSC Home Fleet is publicly set to train above Luna, but in actual fact its real purpose is to provide security in case of possible terrorist attacks during the election period.
February:February - 9th, All survey groups are ordered back to Earth to begin overhauls, each ship served a four year tour of duties and will serve another two of these tour of duties.
March:March - 7th, the system of Cordoba is discovered in the Draconis Arm, it is a single star system with two planets that are not colonisable but contain vasts quantities of minerals and a low gravity moon that could support a small population.
April:April - 7th, Two Endurant class jump stabilisation stations are towed to the Tau Ceti and the Ross 128 jump points in the sol system and begin stabilising the jump points, as they do Eager scientists collect data on the process.
July:July - 1st, The third Endurant class Jump stabilisation station finishes construction above earth and is towed to the Gilese 526 jump point in Tau Ceti.
August:August - 1st, Cargo shuttle stations and military listening post equipment is to be deployed to Andraste.
September:September - 7th, Infrastructure is to be delivered to the colony of Ballast, and then later in the year colonists are to be landed on the colony.
October:October - 29th, The first colonists set off for Ballast, their journey would take just under a month to complete.
December:December - 25th, The final cargo shuttle station is delivered to Andraste, and the first colonists set down on Ballast, this now means humanity has colonies in three star systems.
(One of the first colonists looks out into the distance at the mountains of Ballast)
End of UNSC Report - 2174-Admiral Duane Luera, commander of all UNSC Naval Assets

<Office of Naval Intelligence Political Report B5>
<Authorisation observed>
<ONI Access Granted> With the Authorisation of the President, Section One has been attempting to uncover information on the Earth First party, the findings are attached below.
The Earth-First Party has been suggested to work with the Koslovics and Friedens during the interplanetary war but no evidence has been found that could indicate this, though thanks to several agents work we have managed to figure out that the party is utilising some very interesting means of funding in an attempt to gain a rise into power, its leader also has ties to past terrorist organisations but so far we have not managed to determine if he still has those connections.
They seem to be affiliated with certain Arctic based Sorium mining operations that use extortion as well as violent tactics to control mining populations to keep high amounts of profits while keeping expenditure very low, they have been trying to cover this up for some time but we have managed to get an operative on the inside who has confirmed these findings, they also appear to be using offworld work to complete these tasks, which we theorise they use to justify their belief of "Earth-First".
It is within my opinion that the Earth-First Party is not a direct threat to the security of the UEG but could become a major issue if left alone for an extended period of time.
-Special Agent Diana Jones of Section One<Exiting File #247>