UNSC Frontier Command

The UNSC Frontier Command, or FRONTCOM, is an organization of the tasked with the military oversight of most post-war colonization projects as Humanity began to expand into what it referred to as "The Frontier," as well as providing defense for said colonies.
==History==
===Formation===
In 2553, shortly following the formal conclusion of the , the Unified Earth Government was nearing collapse. After nearly thirty years of war, the large majority of human colonies had either been devastated by Covenant attacks, or glassed and rendered largely uninhabitable. This left the UEG with a crippling number of resource shortages necessary to stabilize and rebuild society. In addition, billions of refugees who had fled the Covenant onslaught were now occupying worlds that simply could no long support them and their native populations.
While not all colonies attacked by the Covenant had been glassed, most that weren't had still been largely abandoned by populations worried that a Covenant retreat was only temporary. Years, sometimes even decades, of neglect had left most of the necessary colonial infrastructure in disrepair. While these worlds would be resettled, the UEG needed a more immediate solution to stave off mass waves of disease and starvation that was feared to soon follow. After several weeks of discussion and planning between various UEG Senators and members of UNSC High Command, a finalized plan was introduced during an emergency meeting of the Senate.
Dubbed the Colonial Reconstruction and Expansion Act of 2553, the bill contained two provisions, the first being an expansion and relaxing of UEG colonization and settlement protocols which would become the Human in Every Habitat Program, while the second called for the creation of a detachment of the UNSC Armed Forces, utilizing assets and personnel of both the Naval Command and the Unified Ground Command for the purpose of exploring, settling, and defending new worlds for humanity, which would be the basis for Frontier Command. The bill passed rapidly, mostly with support from those Senators representing the surviving worlds and populations from the Outer Colonies, and was signed into law by President Ruth Charet on April 14, 2553.
Following its official formation, FRONTCOM spent several weeks awaiting for its first vessels to come out of refit. Given that a large majority of the UNSC's survivng naval assets had suffered some form of damage, the remaining shipyards around Mars prioritized repair and refit over new construction, and those assigned to FRONTCOM were given top priority to fit in with the extreme timetables that influenced its creation. These largely consisted of a majority of the surviving and , due mostly to their capabilities to support themselves and escort ships for extended durations. The shipyards were given a maximum of three weeks to repair as many ships as possible, and on March 7, 2553, the first task forces of Frontier Command left the Sol system, carrying thousands of refugees and troops.
===Post-War Service===
====Insurrectionists and Covenant Remnants====
====Created Crisis====
====The Banished====
==Organization==
Frontier Command is fairly unique amongst the varied elements of the UNSC, at once appearing to be simply a division of the UNSC Navy, while at the same time employing large amounts of assets and personnel traditionally under the control of the Unified Ground Command. Officially, Frontier Command operates under the same legal and bureaucratic definitions that normally govern the sharing of resources between NAVCOM and UNICOM, rather than as a separate branch. Despite this, the commanding officer of FRONTCOM, much like the Spartan Branch, maintains a non-voting, advisory position within .
Rather than being organized into fleets, the various naval elements of FRONTCOM are organized into semi-autonomous battlegroups, entirely capable of operating independently for many months at a time. These battlegroups usually center around a central carrier or small groups of carriers, and consist of a variety of vessels, including the typical frigates, destroyers, and cruisers, but also including large numbers of corvettes and even survey ships such as the to chart out new Slipspace routes and star systems. These battlegroups performed dual roles as hybrid expeditionary/defense forces and colonial support groups, tasked with aggressively claiming and defending new territory, while also helping to establish and support colonial efforts in these new areas. As such, they contained a mixture of dedicated warships and support vessels, including civilian designs adapted for military use.
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