Union Settlement Command
Union Settlement Command |
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| Motto: "Strength, Prosperity, Victory" | ||||
| Anthem: "Strength, Prosperity, Victory" | ||||
| Capital and cities | New DuVall | |||
| Official languages | Codexian | |||
| Demonym | Unionists | |||
| Type | One Party State | |||
| Leaders | ||||
| - | Leier of the Union Space Command | Donald Hering | ||
| Legislature | Union Settlement Commission | |||
| Establishment | ||||
| - | Reformation of the Veridian Union | 10th May, 2178 | ||
| Population | ||||
| - | 2332 estimate | 4,984,229,871 | ||
| GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate | |||
| - | Total | $1,246.565 Billion | ||
| - | Per capita | $13,425 | ||
| HDI (2014) |  0.693medium |
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| Currency | Union | |||
| Date format | Month/Day/Year | |||
| Internet TLD | .usc | |||
The 'Union Settlement Command' born in 2178 during the reformation of the Veridian Union. No longer burdened by it's restraints to Urth, the Union Settlement Command was created. An attempt to forge a new future amongst the stars and to achieve supremacy in science, military, and culture.
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History
Government
Dictatorship by 2334, a year into the Avarba Conflict.
The Union Settlement Command is an Authoritarian State due to the fact that Leier Hering's rule was created through the dissolution of the presidency, while resuming the propaganda, suppression of opposition, and with support from the military leading to a Totalitarian Military Dictatorship as the government. The Union is also an autocracy because the ruler (Leier in this case) has full authority and the final say over the entire country. The Leier is the official Head of State and the Head of Government and often anyone who either opposed or denied the Leier's rule was declared and enemy of the state and was to be executed by orders from the High Council.
High Council
The Union Senate, or the High Council, is the main legislative and governing body of the Union Settlement Command. Reformed from the Senate after the rise of Leier Donald Hering in 2334. The Union Senate is ran by officials that were elected by their local constituents. They serve primarily as advisers and macromanagers, allowing the Leier to focus attention elsewhere.
Union Settlement Command Armed Forces
The Union Settlement Command Armed Forces (USCAF) is the military force of the USC, consisting of the Marines and Navy, including Force Recon, which serve as a joint air, land, sea, space, and advanced infantry force.
Education
Culture
Systems
The Union controls seven solar systems.
Crux System
The primary solar system which the USC rules from. It is host to twelve planetary bodies, nineteen moons, and two asteroid belts. Crux System is named after it's star, Crux. Crux is a Class K star, a yellow dwarf.
Aripho
Considered the newfound homeworld, it is the most prized possession in the Union.
Geography
Rocky world dominated by dry, arid plains covered by a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. The small hydrosphere allows for brief wet seasons, but aside from a few ubiquitous grasses vegetation is largely concentrated around shallow oases.
Fiero
A moon orbiting Aripho, it was the first temporary home for the Veridian Union. It's grey exterior and rocky surfaces is populated by stations and space elevators.
Klendathu
Klendathu is the second ellipsoidal moon from Turnada. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Klendathu is 50% larger than Fiero, and it is 80% more massive. It is the second-largest moon in the Crux System, after Turnada's moon Bolano, and is larger than the smallest planet, Heves, but only 40% as massive.
Geography
Klendathu is primarily composed of water, ice, and rocky material. The dense opaque atmosphere hides liquid hydrocarbon lakes in Klendathu's polar regions. The geologically young surface is generally smooth, with few impact craters, although mountains and several possible cryovolcanoes have been found.
The atmosphere of Klendathu is largely nitrogen; minor components lead to the formation of methane and ethane clouds and nitrogen-rich organic smog. The climate—including wind and rain—creates surface features similar to those of Aripho or Urth, such as dunes, rivers, lakes, seas of liquid methane and ethane, and deltas, and is dominated by seasonal weather patterns as on Urth. With its liquids (both surface and subsurface) and robust nitrogen atmosphere.
History
The Union Settlement Command had plans to establish a massive mining facility on Klendathu since the late 2100s. However, the establishment of such was never achieved until 2237. In 2268, the Oiltown Space Elevator was completed. It provided the easiest method of transporting the resources of Klendathu up into the Space Elevator's port. As a result, the resources have been more plentiful at a lower cost.
Rich in nitrogen and various gases, it serves as the USC's personal gas station. It fuels all of the Union's needs and aspirations from spaceships to generators and vehicles.
