State of Emergency

== What is The State of Emergency? ==
State of Emergency is a Fan Fiction written and edited by MDAM-FASEGold on the FanFiction.net website. It is a Halo AU about a damaged Covenant ship jumping into lunar orbit and begins to descend towards Earth and how the people, governments and militaries around the world deal with this crisis. The story follows three characters, Harold Smith, the man who discovered the object first, Naomi Gordon, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Andrew Haily, the US Secretary of Defence, as well as a number of other minor characters and pieces of information.
== Characters ==
=== Harold 'Harry' Smith ===
Dr Harold Smith is a scientist and researcher at Manchester University's Jodrell Bank observatory in the UK. Before the Irish Sea crisis he was using the telescope as part of an international effort to find and catalogue a large number of exoplanet that could possibly be able to harbour intelligent life. He often worked alone, though from time to time, he had the company of one of the janitors, Michael Cannon, who helped him out from time to time. 
=== Naomi Gordon ===
The second Female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Naomi Gordon was the put into power after the vote to leaving the EU was passed earlier that year and the previous PM stood down. Originally an ambassador for Ireland, she moved back to the UK and lived in Belfast before being elected as a part of the Conservative Party. As the only Conservative in Northern Ireland, she got the job as the Secretary of Northern Ireland after the 2010 General Election. After the 2015 election she was promoted to Foreign Secretary by Prime Minister Callum Porter. In 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU and Callum Porter stood down after loosing the Brexit Referendum, and Gordon took the reigns of the Conservatives and thus took control of the Prime Ministry.
=== Andrew Haily ===
The Secretary of Defence Dr Andrew Haily, is one of the most influential members of the US government. He served in the Gulf War, but was honourably discharged on the grounds of mental health after his team was ambushed by Iraqi soldiers on a routine patrol. He then went into politics in 2001 and was selected by President Oliver after to be the Secretary of Defence after the 2008 election win. He stayed in this position past the 2012 election cycle and began to slowly withdraw troops from Afghanistan. He also successfully managed to start the formation of the Russo-American Coalition in Syria (RACS) and reduced the current tension between the two nuclear superpowers in 2015 which helped .
== Way of writing ==
The author of this book uses a number of ways to present his writing, some in prose, some in transcript and others in screen shots of webpages or newspapers.