History Characters / DustAndEchoesUNSC

* KickedUpstairs: [[spoiler:Is reassigned to Remnant as a Marine liaison following the conclusion of Operation: ODYSSEY because the Huntsmen he was supposed to escort were put into acceptable levels of risk, resulting in nearly catastrophic death and injury. His reassignment ensures that he won't cause more problems for the3 [=UNSC=] but still be of use to them thanks to his ability to build a rapport with Remnantians.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Comes across as this while serving on the Security Council, especially when compared to the likes of Ackerson. He directly backs up Cole's claims that an attempted invasion and occupation of Remnant would be foolish in favor of diplomacy, and when Ackerson suggests using the data secured from the Peponi Cartographer to turn human worlds with Forerunner artifacts onto them into so-called "fortress worlds," he points out that doing so runs the risk of investing too much of their military into ambushes that would still inevitably result in the planets' destruction. He instead advocates for evacuating the population of said colonies, reasoning that the Covenant will find them eventually no matter what they do.

[[folder: CDR. Jacob Keyes]]
!!Commander Jacob Keyes (01928-19912-JK)
-> '''Homeworld: Earth'''
-> '''Birthdate: February 8, 2495'''
The commanding officer of the [=UNSC=] ''Midsummer Night'', a ''Stalwart''-class light frigate when first contact is made between Remnant and the [=UNSC=]. An expert tactician who is no stranger to taking part in classified missions, Commander Keyes was chosen by the [=UNSC=] to escort Huntsmen delegates from Atlas, Vale, and the White Fang across [=UNSC=] space in order to prove that the [=UNSC=]'s claims about the threat of the Covenant is legitimate.

* MilitaryMaverick: Tends to come up with unorthodox strategies on the fly, such as when he detonated a nuclear warhead behind an asteroid to use its fragments like shotgun pellets against the Covenant storm cutters pursuing him over Khembalung. [[spoiler:This is part of why he is assigned to be the liason with Remnant after the Battle of Peponi, as Cole realises that most of Remnant will not respond well to a more traditional military officer]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In keeping his somewhat more sympathetic interpretation from the Silver Timeline, Ackerson realizes he's damned to Hell if it exists for his work on the SPARTAN-III Program, and recognizes the ethical violations of it, considering it a NecessaryEvil in order for humanity to survive. He does, however, try to justify it to himself via the fact that he does not use Flash-Clones or abduct the children from loving families, as Dr. Halsey did, instead relying on war orphans who are offered the chance to take revenge on the Covenant for the deaths of their families and no one will miss if they disappear, as well as not pursuing the "Spartans are the evolution of humanity as a species bullshit" that he tells himself Halsey is guilty of. The thought of creating more Spartan-IIIs in order to offer competition to Remnant's capability to produce Huntsmen is something he pursues out of necessity.
** He also recognizes the ColdCalculus of using the data recovered from the Peponi Cartographer to turn human colonies into "Fortress Worlds" that would bleed the Covenant as they make their advance, as it would divert ships, resources, and manpower from other colonies and leave them effectively defenseless, justifying it as a necessary sacrifice to ensure humanity's long-term survival, and is open to the idea of at least evacuating the civilian populations of these worlds beforehand, as proposed by Admirals Whitcomb and Cole.
* AdaptationalSympathy: Similarly to his Silver Counterpart, James Ackerson has a much more personal, understandable, and arguably more justifiable reason for his rivalry to Dr. Halsey: his sister, Julia, was a Spartan-II Candidate who died as a result of Augmentation Failures.

** This also applies to his SPARTAN-III Program; while it was partially motivated by a desire to upstage Dr. Halsey and her SPARTAN-II Program due to his utter hatred for her, he was correct in a number of areas, namely the sheer expense and restrictive recruitment criteria of the S-IIs, which the UNSC could not realistically support, especially in this time of war against the Covenant. The S-IIIs could be produced at relatively cheaper costs and in larger numbers, allowing for a much greater number of them and the option of deploying them en masse for operations that would normally be outside of the capacity of the UNSC's conventional forces to undertake but too risky to deploy the few Spartans they had from Halsey.

* MilitaryMaverick: Tends to come up with unorthodox strategies on the fly, such as when he detonated a nuclear warhead behind an asteroid to use its fragments like shotgun pellets against the Covenant storm cutters pursuing him over Khembalung.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Unlike Halsey who insists that Spartans are the next evolution of humanity Ackerson outright admits to himself that the creation of both the Spartan IIs and IIIs is evil, NecessaryEvil but still morally repugnant.

* NecessaryEvil: How he views the creation and deployment of the Spartan IIIs. He acknowledges that taking advantage of grief stricken children who have lost their families and worlds to the Covenant putting them through brutal military training, and then sending most of them off on suicide missions is evil but its necessary if humanity is to survive.

** Later Halsey verbally rips into him for his decision to park his warship in front of Remnant and not say anything when she arrives. Stating that if Remnant was more primitive as a civilization, would’ve probably assumed it was the wrath of their own gods about to come, and General Ironwood had all reason to fear Cole’s ship being the vanguard of an alien invasion. And in particular tells Cole he was just lucky as hell that he didn’t end up screwing up first contact with this alien humanity on Remnant.

The head of the entire UNSC Navy and its armed forces since the beginning of the Human-Covenant War, and arguably the greatest admiral in human history. Admiral Cole's career began fighting the Insurrection, but following the revelation that his wife was a prominent Insurrectionist admiral he was forced to retire in disgrace, only to be brought back into the fold when the UNSC needed his services again against the might of the Covenant. Following a PyrrhicVictory against the Covenant on the colony of Beijing-III, he made a random slipspace jump, only to make a discovery that would bring both the UNSC and Remnant on a collision course.

* PropagandaMachine: ONI Section II is entirely devoted to developing and spreading pro-UNSC propaganda. One of their appointed tasks is masking just how badly the war against the Covenant is actually going, making it seem that the UNSC either holding them off or outright winning when the exact opposite is happening. They're remarkably efficient at it, too, [[spoiler: managing to turn the Skirmish at Khembalung, which was the UNSC ''Midsummer Night'' walking into a trap by Jackal Privateers and nearly biting the dust before edging out a victory, into a decisive UNSC operation against the actual Covenant navy to liberate a conquered planet being used as a staging ground against other human colonies. None of the Huntsmen and Huntresses, especially Robyn Hill, are particularly pleased about that.]]

* EvilCounterpart: To his hated rival, Dr. Halsey, to the point where he even created the SPARTAN-III Program in an attempt to upstage her with a superior super-soldier program.

* BreakTheScientist: Halsey is visibly frustrated by the concepts of aura and semblance, as she is a devout atheist and firm woman of science, and how these seemingly magical abilities seem to fly in the face of the laws of physics.

* BadassNormal: UNSC Marines, when compared to Remnant's fighters and the [=SPARTANs=]. They don't have any Aura or augmentations to speak of, but make up for it in sheer tenacity and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds, earning the respect of everyone present.

** This is also why the UNSC does not have robotic armies despite having the capability to construct and field them. As gene therapy technologies advanced, they found it cheaper to train adaptable human soldiers rather than develop robots that would have to be fieldable across all 800 of their colonies. That being said, the existence of the [[RobotSoldier Atlesian Knights]] has caused Halsey to begin reconsidering that decision.
* CultureClash: There's understandably a lot of it going around between Remnant and the UNSC. Generally, the Kingdoms of Remnant are all shown to be visibly uncomfortable with the highly militarized and conformist UNSC (except for Atlas, whose own militarized society [[BirdsOfAFeather leads to them quickly working fairly well with the "aliens"]]), who understandably butt heads with Remnant's incredibly individualistic and non-conformist cultures based around personal independence and artistic expression. For example, Johnson is clearly unsettled when Qrow informs him that Huntsmen are ultimately mercenaries in all but name, and is shown to be struggling to wrap his head around the concept when the Grimm attack Amity Colosseum.

* HopeBringer: The UNSC is this to Remnant, with many people being excited by their presence since they think that they can help the Remnantians eventually travel beyond their homeworld and set up space colonies, finally getting themselves free from the Grimm.
* MightMakesRight: Subverted ''hard.'' Some of the leaders of the UNSC, namely Colonel Ackerson, believe that if it comes down to it, they can force Remnant under their control by threatening them with orbital bombardment. Cole states how ''terrible'' an idea that is and explains the various reasons why. Ultimately, they decide to continue their peace talks with Remnant in pursuit of a mutually beneficial alliance.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Keyes, Johnson, and Halsey repeatedly make remarks (particularly near the end of Chapter 11) that while Remnant is very different from Earth, it does still have things one can be found on their worlds - like racism, inequality, and so on which even they still have and haven't entirely dealt with. Keyes admits that most of said problems aren't even behind the [=UNSC=], just temporarily covered up due to the severity of the war with the Covenant.

* SoldierVsWarrior: The basic dichotomy between [=SPARTANs=] and Huntsmen & Huntresses, and this is best exemplified in [[spoiler:the battle between Blue Team and Haki Felt.]] However, it gets turned on its head in one respect -- Remnant can raise their Huntsmen much faster and in greater numbers than it takes for the UNSC to create [=SPARTANs=].

!UNSC Navy
[[folder:General]]
The backbone of the entire UNSC military, the Navy is responsible for spaceborne operations. Initially envisioned for offensive operations against pirates and Insurrectionists, they've been forced to become the primary defense against the Covenant's relentless onslaught.

* BadassNavy: Pound for pound, the Covenant Navy outmatches the UNSC Navy in every regard. But that doesn't stop the UNSC from putting up one hell of a fight and even scoring the rare victory through clever use of spacial terrain and tactics.
* CoolSpaceship: Have entire fleets filled with them.
* GlassCannon: When compared to Covenant starships. A direct hit from a plasma torpedo spells certain doom to most UNSC vessels. Still, their kiloton-range magnetic accelerator cannons ([=MACs=]) and megaton-range nuclear bombs could destroy Covenant ships in one to two hits if they get past their shields.
* MagneticWeapons: Although missiles and bombs are frequently employed against the Covenant, the primary arsenal of a UNSC starship is its magnetic accelerator cannon, or MAC. A single shot can destroy an unshielded Covenant warship, and one to two hits can deplete a full shield. While firing much smaller 50mm HE projectiles, their point-defense guns operate on a similar principle.
* SpaceNavy: While comprised of what could be considered [[StandardHumanSpaceship flying bricks with guns]], the UNSC Navy is an incredibly sophisticated fighting force.

[[folder:ADM. Preston Cole]]
!!Admiral Preston Jeremiah Cole (03956-26127-PC)
->'''Homeworld: Earth (Mark Twain, Missouri, United Republic of North America)'''
->'''Birthdate: November 3, 2470'''
The head of the entire UNSC Navy and its armed forces since the beginning of the Human-Covenant War, and arguably the greatest admiral in human history. Admiral Cole's career began fighting the Insurrection, but following the revelation that his wife was a prominent Insurrectionist admiral he was forced to retire in disgrace, only to be brought back into the fold when the UNSC needed his services again against the might of the Covenant. Following a PyrrhicVictory against the Covenant on the colony of Beijing-III, he made a random slipspace jump, only to make a discovery that would bring both the UNSC and Remnant on a collision course.

* BenevolentBoss: She surprisingly is one, assuming you do your job, don't lie to or plot against her, and avoid screw-ups. Otherwise, she's a BadBoss.

* PragmaticVillainy: While she has firmly vetoed a military campaign to annex Remnant due to the cost of men and materials (see ReasonableAuthorityFigure below), Parangosky has been confirmed by WordOfGod that she is beginning work on bringing Remnant under Earth's thumb via gradual economic dependence while working with the Kingdoms as a partner for the immediate future.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Parangosky listens carefully to both Cole and Ackerson's arguments regarding Remnant, and while sharing the latter's discomfort about allowing Remnant to exist as a sovereign political entity (and therefore a symbol of independence from Earth that the Insurrectionists can use to justify their campaigns against the UNSC), she ultimately agrees with the former's assessment that attempting to annex the Kingdoms forcibly would be far too costly and inefficient of an endeavor to justify and that Remnant should be brought in as a partner, not as a vassal. At least, for now.

* SoldierVsWarrior:
** The basic dichotomy between [=SPARTANs=] and Huntsmen and Huntresses. [[spoiler: This is exemplified in the battle between Blue Team and Haki.]]
** It gets turned on its head in one respect: Remnant can raise their Huntsmen much faster and in greater numbers than it takes for the UNSC to create [=SPARTANs=].

Officially founded in the 22nd century during the Interplanetary War, the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) is the military, exploratory, and scientific agency of the United Earth Government (UEG). Originally overseeing just the Sol System while their sister organization, the Colonial Military Authority (CMA), controlled military forces in the colonies, the [=UNSC=]'s jurisdiction gradually increased over the centuries, expanding tremendously at the start of the Insurrection to much controversy. But following the Covenant invasion in 2525, the [=UNSC=] became humanity's greatest defender and was forced to completely override civilian control of the government, forming an emergency military government from which they coordinate both the war effort against the Covenant and humanity's survival.

One of the UNSC's best soldiers outside the [=SPARTAN-IIs=], and a former member of their precursors, the ORION Project. Johnson is a skilled fighter, a charismatic leader, and a veteran of countless engagements, even being involved in the opening shots of the first major battle of the Human-Covenant War on Harvest.
Currently, he serves as the UNSC's primary liaison with the Hunters traveling on board the UNSC ''Midsummer Night''. In the future, he will develop a close relationship with Qrow Branwen and his family.

[[folder:SSgt. Johnson]]

[[folder:Sgt. Johnson]]
!!Sergeant Avery Johnson (48789-20114-AJ)

!!Master Chief Petty Officer [=John-117=]