Contemporary History

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===Human-Covenant War===
===Post-Covenant War Period===
Referred to as the Post-Covenant War Period, or more commonly as the Post-War Era, the short time period of borderline-perpetual-peace between the Unified Earth Government and the former Covenant Empire client civilizations was one defined by a systematic rebuilding of infrastructure, worlds, and the resettlement of displaced peoples. Taking place between the UEG-Standard-Years 2553 CE and 2558 CE, the Post-War Era was a five-year period set between the climax of the Human-Covenant War and the Created Crisis that followed.
The Human-Covenant War was a century-defining event, eclipsing the destructive pseudo-civil war called the Insurrection that came before, and when the fighting finally stopped, the known galaxy was left uncertain what the future had in store. Much changed and yet much remained the same and age-old conflicts that had occurred before the Great War were simply resumed where they left off. Insurrectionists returned to actively resisting and undermining UEG governance. Covenant remnant factions turned on each other and continued disorganized military operations against Human society through acts of terrorism and interstellar asymmetrical warfare. Bad blood long present among client states within the Covenant hierarchy broke out into open conflict or civil wars within their own territories.
These minor conflicts, known collectively as the , became one of the two main components of the Post-War Era. The other component was the systematic-societal crisis that the Unified Earth Government and other post-Covenant client states were afflicted with. The destruction of countless colonies, the lack of centralized governments, the mass migrations of wartime refugees, mass famines, perpetual economic collapse, an excessively-large military-industrial complex without a specific enemy to fight against, and a lack of infrastructure or specialized skillsets among working-age individuals were all symptoms of the greater societal crisis perpetuating throughout Human and former Covenant territories.
In response to these upheavals, responses varied across known space. For the UEG, who was without colonies, without money, and with billions of refugees allowed limited self-autonomy for some colonies, sold out administrative rights of colonies and planetary states to private corporations and forward deployed their massive military and intelligence departments to maintain an uneasy peace through all necessary means. Private corporations, particularly security contractors, made a killing off the UEG's failing security apparatus, trading their services for lucrative economic and policy deals across the UEG. Baal Defense Solutions was among the most well-off corporate entity in the half-decade, following the Human-Covenant War.
Personal freedoms and personal privacy protections were heavily revoked in secrecy even as the civilian government was restored by the emergency military government. The new civilian government, under newly-elected UEG President , was allied closely with the former emergency-military-government-leadership and saw many officers transition from military service to public service in politics. A surveillance state highly dependent and networked back to Earth and the was adopted throughout the UEG's colonial holdings at the insistence of the Office of Naval Intelligence who was now the primary intelligence wing of the UEG as well as the UNSC.
Military operations against former Covenant client states continued as if the Covenant War never ended, even after the UEG signed a ceasefire with their new, uneasy allies in the , led by the Sangheili Arbiter, . The Office of Naval Intelligence and factions within the UNSC continued to propagate a cold war scenario in regards toward the Swords of Sanghelios, considering means to destroy their new ally's capability to wage war, however, all considerations were ultimately shelved or placed in a secret, non-first-strike state. The UNSC continued to maintain anti-terrorist and anti-piracy operations against Covenant remnant factions, in particular, , , among others. And at the same time, the UEG made underhanded allies of these factions, providing them with weapons and technology to continue perpetuating civil and proxy wars in former Covenant territories.
In regards to colonies, the UNSC maintained aggressive military action against rogue colonial states like the Gilgamesh Free State, Glabetovan Resistance Organization, and Victorian Independent State. They fought with more-fluid multi-world terrorist organizations such as the reinvigorated and the newly-formed . The UNSC went after abandoned colonies in the Glasslands and regions of the in hopes of retaking and securing their worlds before alien civilizations or organized crime groups took the worlds for themselves. In an attempt to secure the colonial Frontier of space, the Office of Naval Intelligence made an alliance with the interstellar crime syndicate, the Iskandar Syndicate, in hopes of stabilizing crime in a region of space where UNSC security forces were minimal at best, nonexistent at worst.
And between all this, with the goal of putting on a false-face that the Unified Earth Government had achieved a miraculous recovery to become a "galactic superpower", the UEG went to the extreme, spending significant funds to rebuilding Earth and major Human colonies as part of to bolster public trust in the Human government. This project also included the taking-in of refugees, alien and human, and attempting to resettle them in the newly-rebuilt cities and orbital habitats and putting alien refugees to work in viable work-camps where their manpower and intelligence could benefit the Unified Earth Government's recovery efforts. All this in the hopes that the massive farce put up would one day become a reality. Ultimately, intervention from forces inside and outside the Human territories would make these efforts obsolete and once again plunge the known galaxy into a state of all-out warfare.
===Created Crisis===