United Human Government

The United Human Government was the government for humanity shortly after the Human-Covenant War. It was founded with the intent of leading humanity into a new golden era, and to counter the 'flaws' of the previous United Earth Government and United Nations Space Command.
==Background==
After the Human-Covenant and Human/Sangheili-Flood war ended, due to Thel 'Vadam killing the Prophet of Truth and John-117 "Master Chief" destroying the Ark and the Flood with it, humanity's enemies were either gone or too disorganized to pose a threat. However, few humans remained, and although many colonies that had remained hidden or survived now revealed themselves, humanity had hard times to experience. And to guide it through these hard times, humanity wanted a strong government. 
Shortly after the war ended, politicians, military officials and many others met in Sydney to discuss humanity's future. Their previous enemies, th Sangheili, also attended the meeting, and the aid of the Sangheili was ensured. Plans for humanity's restart was made, including the Sangheili and the other former Covenant races providing resources for humanity to use (in order to repay their debt to humanity, whom they had honored, but been unable to help). With Covenant technology and resources made available for humanity, and with long and intense studies of Forerunner structures and artifacts (such as the Ark Portal on Earth), technological advancements was made at an incredibly, almost unbelievably, high rate. With the new resources available, new technology could be constructed and used to aid in humanity's rebuild efforts. Flash-cloning, although still expensive, became completely reliable, allowing the cloning of humans to increase the population. While it was too expensive to completely restore the population, it was enough to help it greatly on the way.
In late 2554, after almost two years, the constitution had been successfully written for the new human government, called the United Human Government (replacing 'earth' with 'human' was deemed a good PR; a way to prevent new rebel movements suspecting 'earth first' policies). The first Chairman of the UHG was Malik Johnson, an arab-american civilian and one of the most intense followers of the new constitution, while the position of Secretary-General of the new UHG Parliament was given to Isaac Andersen, a former UNSC Vice Admiral. Lord Terrence Hood remained as Chairman of the reorganized Security Committee and Chief of Naval Operations. Together, the three leaders began the important task of leading humanity into a brighter future. The UNSC, previously roughly the leading state inside the state, was absorbed into UHG, no longer a seperate entity.
==Military==
As years passed, individual wealth and technological advancements caused human economy, welfare and population to go skyrocket, developing and advancing at a rate unparalleled in earlier human history. However, technological advancements and wealth advanced faster than the population numbers, and humanity still counted as the smallest race in 2575. To counter these hardly-ignored problems, the UHG started working long and hard to change their military doctrine to counter their low numbers (due to the threat of the resurgence of the Covenant). In a few years, the UHG leaders and Parliament had decided and effectively planned out a new doctrine. Human soldiers would, while fewer than that of other races, be subjected to safe yet effective augmentation drugs and be fitted with the best possible equipment to keep up with their opponents' larger numbers. The military would also have access to designated flash-cloning equipment to be able to clone additional soldiers. However, in return, higher criteria had to be placed on potential recruits, in order to avoid incidents with the still not entirely risk-free augmentation drugs, genetic enhancement medications and new armor (MJOLNIR Mark VII Powered Assault Armor, a variant designed to keep most the advantages of the Mark VI, but also with the advantage to be available to any human with only minor enhancements). Thus, the total amount of soldiers recruited would be lower than that of the UNSC's before and during the Human-Covenant War.
The UHG Navy was also reorganized. Instead of producing many cheap, simple vessels with light armament, human warships was fitted with top-of-the-line technology, while producing fewer ships in the end; energy shields, more advanced Magnetic Accelerator Guns and even Plasma torpedoes or Energy projectors became common and necessary on human ships. Ships would also often be refitted multiple times to keep up with the new and better weapons upgrades. Ships would also be larger, some in Covenant Assault Carrier size class. However, fewer ships available accidentally made it harder to keep sizeable garrisons on every human colony. Instead, some select colonies would be turned into Military Centers, also called Sector Centers (because the centers' area of jurisdiction would be called sectors). With the Sector Centers having a large fleet, slipspace portal prototypes based on the Ark Portal was constructed in the Center systems, connecting to every system in the sector, allowing near-instantenous travel to any system requiring naval assistance.
The consequence of this complete reorganization of the military and the creation of the new doctrine caused humanity to wield the most powerful army and fleet in the Milky Way Galaxy, although its small size kept it from overwhelming the galaxy's other races.
===Rank Structure===
Compared to pre-Human-Covenant War ranking systems, the UHG started using a simplified rank structure. Although keeping the most important and notable ranks, several ranks were omitted. Also, with the Marine Corps, Air Force and Army being abolished and instead united into Naval Infantry (for the army and marines) and Naval Force (for the Air Force), as Navy subdivisions, marine, air force and army ranks were completely removed, instead taking on the simplified naval ranks (as a consequence putting all military divisions under Naval jurisdiction).
Rank 	Description 	
Officer Ranks 	Officer Ranks 	Officer Ranks
Fleet Admiral 	The Fleet Admiral is usually just a war-time rank, although in the UHG, the Chairman of the Security Committee is always a Fleet Admiral. In war-time, it can also be given to skilled admirals in order to lead human fleets, although they remain subordinate to the Chairman of the Security Committee. 	
Admiral 	Admirals lead UHG fleets in peacetime, and is only outranked by the Fleet Admiral. They are usually the commanding officer at Sector Centers, although the position can also be filled by Rear Admirals or Fleet Admirals if required. 	
Rear Admiral 	With the rank of Vice Admiral being dropped, Rear Admirals act as second-in command to Admirals, in addition to their purpose of leading smaller ship formations, such as Battlegroups. Although earlier being divided into a Upper and Lower Half, the UHG merged the two into one rank. 	
Captain 	Captains command individual ships within a fleet. Captains are either subordinates to Admirals (if their ship is with a fleet or battlegroup), or act half-independently (if their ship is on patrol duty on its own). Captain is the only rank that commands individual ships, since the rank Commander was removed from the UHG rank structure. 	
Lieutenant 	With the omission of the ranks Commander and Lieutenant Commander, Lieutenant is the rank directly below Captain. A Lieutenant serve as a ship's executive officer, and can, if need arises, take the Captain's place as temporary commander of the ship. Lieutenants also commands permanent groundside military installations and also leads military ground operations (although a Captain or higher rank usually has overall command of such an operation). The Lieutenant is the first rank that commonly uses the MJOLNIR Mark VII Armor.	
Ensign 	Ensigns serve as the crewmen on UHG ships and fighter, bomber, attack VTOL and dropship pilots. Crewmen don't wear the MJOLNIR armor unless required, and pilots uses a special flight harness instead (although many of the flight harness' systems are near-identical to the MJOLNIR). 	
Enlisted Ranks 	Enlisted Ranks 	Enlisted Ranks
Master Chief Petty Officer	The Master Chief Petty Officer is the highest enlisted rank in the UHG. The Master Chief Petty Officer (usually shortened to simply 'Master Chief') serve as the second-in command to Lieutenants, aiding in commanding troops. 	
Chief Petty Officer 	Chief Petty Officers (often simply called 'Chief') is the second highest UHG enlisted rank. They command smaller troop formations than Master Chiefs, platoon or squad-sized formations, depending on the needs of the situation (large troop formations became redundant after the human-covenant war, with the change of humanity's military doctrine). 	
Petty Officer 	Initially being split up into First, Second and third Class, the three ranks were merged into simply 'Petty Officer' (often abbreviated as 'PO'). The Petty officer serves as second-in command to squad or platoon leaders. 	
Apprentice 	The Apprentice is roughly equivalent to the former Marine or Army rank Corporal, in being more senior conscripts, although still simply soldiers. 	
Recruit 	Recruit is the lowest rank in the UHG military. Every new conscript is of this rank, although by the end of their training, most are promoted to Apprentice or higher. Their participation in combat is rare, but if they do participate (such as when new troops are needed fast) they'll be issued a MJOLNIR armor as well and sent wherever they are needed. 	
==Recent History==