United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) was established in 1962. The Office would eventually be replaced by the United Nations Space Authority, which itself would be reforged into the United Nations Space Command. 
==History==
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs was established on December 13, 1958, alongside the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. 
===2060===
In the 2060s, UNOOSA brought about the creation of the United Nations Committee on Outer Space Colonization. The Committee created an additional three subcommittees: 
*Subcommittee for Spacecraft Financing, Construction, and Commissioning
*Subcommittee for Safety and Security
*Subcommittee for Extraterrestrial Threat and Response
Also in the 2060s, the UNOOSA officially commissioned its primary colonial support ships, Command One (2065) and Command Two (2067). These would oversee the initial development of Mars and later the terraforming of the Jovian Moons. By December 2069, the UNOOSA possessed a dozen interplanetary tugboats and two communications relay ships, with many more ships under construction. 
===2070===
By 2070, colony ships were being assembled over the Earth, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs created two organizations: the UN Colonial Development Organization and the UN Space Security Organization. 
===2080===
With humanity spreading across the Sol System, the responsibilities of UNOOSA rapidly increased, ultimately becoming unmanageable by the relatively small UN organization. It was decided to create an entirely new branch - the United Nations Space Authority - as a replacement for the Office for Outer Space Affairs.
====UNOOSA Operational Command, circa 2080====
As of January 1, 2080, the space forces and personnel of the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs were divided into three operational areas, one special operations zone, and two operational regions. All three operational areas possessed a hierarchical central command, administrative offices and facilities, service yards, and storage and resupply installations. The sole special operations zone had similar facilities and support structures assigned to it, as the one of the operational regions. With one exception, each command had a UEG-approved commanding officer who answered to both the UN secretary-general and the UEG president in times of crisis. 
The Terran Operations Area was centered on Earth with oversight of local traffic and shipyards. Despite being the most important and busiest sector in the system, the agency left most day-to-day operations to national services and corporate authorities while nominally keeping the peace with a quartet of imposing Earth One battleships and providing occasional support in the form of ten RS1 recovery tugboats. In late 2079 and early 2080, the research vessel Vitality was present, as were a trio of newly commissioned Eurasia-class security ships and the first batch of 100 Observation 1201 surveillance craft just delivered by North American Superior. 
*Terran Operations Area: 4 Earth One security ships, 3 Eurasia security ships, 100 Observation 1201 surveillance craft, Vitality research ship, and 10 RS1 tugboats 
:Subordinate to the Terran Operations Area, the Lunar Special Operations Zone was mostly an overwatch and surveillance force tasked with patrolling local Lunar space. Only recently graced with a shiny new flagship in the form of the security ship Magnificent Desolation, the Lunar Patrol possessed a hundred surveillance craft made up evenly of new Observer 901 and old Observer 1 vessels and a rudimentary service squadron of ten RS1 recovery tugboats.
:*Lunar Special Operations Zone: security ship Magnificent Desolation, 50 Observer 901 surveillance craft, 50 Observer 1 surveillance craft, and 10 RS1 tugboats 
The Martian Operations Area was centered on Mars with oversight of Martian Space, including its moons and most Mars-crossing objects. Like the Terran Force, agency forces at Mars comprised a pair of Earth One battleships, 160 Observer-type surveillance craft, and ten RS1 recovery tugboats. The UNOOSA maintained support facilities on both Deimos and Phobos. 
*Martian Operations Area: 2 Earth One security ships, 10 Observer 501 surveillance craft, 150 Observer 601 surveillance craft, and 10 RS1 tugboats
The Asteroid Belt Operational Region was by far the largest and most difficult sector. With oversight over hundreds of colonies spread out across a mind-bogglingly large portion of the system, Belt Command had the unequaled and unenviable task of patrolling and safeguarding all of it. Despite recent additions, the UNOOSA simply never possessed sufficient assets to adequately patrol the enormous region, and the challenge of doing so would bedevil both the UN Space Authority and the later United Nations Space Command. With ninety-six security ships and 790 surveillance ships, Belt Command was already the largest combat-capable force in the system. Ninety-three of those security ships were attached to the Belt Security Patrol (BSP), which had been established in 2077. Unsurprisingly, the three unattached security ships were the trio of Earth One battleships that prowled the Belt, commonly referred to as the agency's "Mobile Division". Nine auxiliary ships were included in the Belt Operations Area: the old colonial flagship Command One, usually called The Emperor, served as a mobile headquarters while a quartet of Relay One communications ships provided the necessary network to facilitate command and control; Dependable, Safeguard, and Steady, a replenishment ship, ammo transport, and salvager, respectively, rounded out the auxiliary assets. Finally, seventy RS1 recovery tugboats worked under considerable strain to support colonial activities throughout the Belt and were never not in high demand.
*Asteroid Belt Operations Region: 3 Earth One security ships, 300 Observer 201 surveillance craft, 250 Observer 901 surveillance craft, 150 Observer 1 surveillance craft, 90 Observer 501 surveillance craft, colonial flagship Command One, 4 Relay One communications ships, ammunition transport Safeguard, replenishment ship Dependable, salvage ship Steady, tracking ship Wavelength, and 70 RS1 tugboats 
*Belt Security Patrol (BSP): Peacekeeper (flagship), Torchbearer, Savoir Faire, 30 Edgar security ships, 18 Estella security ships, 14 Anastasia security ships, 12 Eurasia security ships, 10 Aleksandr security ships, and 6 Eleanor security ships 
The Jovian Operations Area was centered on Jupiter and was tasked with oversight of Jovian Space, especially commercial traffic between the Galilean moons of Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io. The combat-capable assets of the Jovian Fleet comprised a trio of Earth One battleships, 22 other security ships, and 150 Observer 601 surveillance craft. The five auxiliaries included the old administrative flagship Command Two (commonly called "Mount Olympus"), a pair of Relay One communications ships, the replenishment ship Reliable, and the enormous presence that was the massive Stalwart Fortitude, a decades-old mobile dockyard that had seen the dawn of the colonial effort. Like the other operational areas, the Jupiter Fleet also possessed ten RS1 recovery tugboats for miscellaneous support operations. Jupiter Command also possessed numerous facilities and offices on the ground and in orbit of each of the moons. 
*Jovian Operations Area: 3 Earth One security ships, 12 Estella security ships, 10 Eleanor security ships, 150 Observer 601 surveillance ships, colonial flagship Command Two, 2 Relay One communications ships, mobile dockyard Stalwart Fortitude, replenishment ship Reliable, and 10 RS1 tugboats
Finally, the Outer System Operations Region had theoretical oversight over all activities and exploration of the rest of the system. While enormous in scope, the so-called Perimeter Command had fewer than a hundred personnel assigned to it and barely even existed in 2080. Most of its staff were researchers and scientists stationed in Jovian Space or in the Belt, with the only official Perimeter Command facilities being a small office on Earth and a tiny campus on Mars. The Outer System Operational Region possessed no ships and no stations and was practically unknown outside of the bureaucracy of the agency proper.
==Total assets, 2080==
The UNOOSA possessed 1,546 commissioned spacecraft: 
*131 security ships
*1,300 surveillance craft
*115 auxiliary ships: 1 ammunition ship, 2 command ships, 6 communications relay ships, 1 instrumentation ship, 1 mobile dockyard, 2 replenishment ships, 1 research ship, 1 salvage ship, and 100 tugboats.
Another 220 spacecraft were on order or under construction: 7 security ships, 208 surveillance craft, and 5 replenishment ships. 
Ship type 	Number	Ships 	Under construction
Security ships 	131 	30 x Edgar, 30 x Estella, 16 x Eleanor, 15 x Eurasia, 14 x Anastasia, 12 x Earth One, 10 x Aleksandr, Magnificent Desolation, Peacekeeper, Savoir Faire, and Torchbearer. 	7 (4 x Luna, 3 x Eurasia)
Surveillance craft 	1,300 	300 x Observer 201, 300 x Observer 601, 300 x Observer 901, 200 x Observer 1, 100 x Observer 501, and 100 x Observer 1201. 	208 (200 x Observer 1201, 8 x Luna 1)
Communications relay ships	6 	6 x Relay One. 	0
Replenishment ships 	2 	Dependable and Reliable. 	5 (Mediterranean)
Tugboats 	100 	100 x RS1. 	0
Other ships 	7 	1 ammunition transport (Safeguard), 2 command ships (Command One and Command Two), 1 mobile dockyard (Stalwart Fortitude), 1 research ship (Vitality), 1 salvage ship (Steady), and 1 tracking ship (Wavelength).	0
==External Links==
*UNOOSA on Wikipedia
*UNOOSA website