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United Nations

   The United Nations in the Swarm Universe is the same dysfunctional, overly political, corrupt, and ineffective organization that it is in real life.  As such, the UN will rarely play the part of the 'good guys' in a Swarm Cycle story.

Early Timeline

The United Nations was initially seen as the Earth-based authority that the Darjee needed to work with. The Darjee expected that the UN would coordinate all efforts involving evacuation and military operations, and was given a ship (referred to as Freighter #1) and a Moon base to use. No story describes what happened with that ship other than it established one or more non-Confederacy colonies.

The UN was part of the effort to develop the CAP test but attempted to use it to determine who would be loyal to UN governance.

DECO was initially established under the auspices of the UN.

Eventually the inaction of the UN encouraged the Darjee to work with individual nations and NATO instead.

Mid-timeline

From about year +2 onwards, the United Nations are a non-issue in Confederacy operations. They do not advise, dictate or control what the Confederacy does. Personnel attached to the UN are put under restrictions by the AIs and are generally not allowed to travel to Confederacy colonies.

Story Usage

A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 9/2019 and performed on 2020-01-06 and using SS Lib ver 1.16.08 (01/06/2020) identified the following top ten usage counts for United Nations:


References

From Ending This Mess by Zen Master relevance:5168 at paragraph 893 of 1455

He leaned forward. “Okay, here’s the secret: The CAP test isn’t screwed up, it’s actually very reliable. The problem is that the test is rigged. The Darjee didn’t come to us naval officers for help. When they came to Earth, they went to the UN as the people in charge. There is no human institution as corrupt and crooked as the UN. Even the Cosca have honor. The UN wasted a whole YEAR learning how to use Confederacy technology to turn us all into zombie slaves. However, eventually the AIs realized that the UN wasn’t doing anything about a military force to counter the Sa’arm, and they forced the UN to act. With me so far?”

From Ending This Mess by Zen Master relevance:4848 at paragraph 1087 of 1455

Digging into what Governor Edelmann had said about how this all started made a lot of things make more sense. The AIs, speaking for the Confederacy, had originally asked the UN for a force that could stop the Sa’arm, without having any real idea of what would be involved. The UN hadn’t known either, and they had offered the Confederacy some soldiers in return for helping the UN control Earth. However, the things the UN did with their help reinforced the AI’s fear of humans, and when Edelmann’s cabal had come up with an alternative the AIs had jumped on it with both of their figurative feet.

From Ending This Mess by Zen Master relevance:3704 at paragraph 1088 of 1455

They came up with a test for trustworthy war-fighters, and everyone had to pass it or they couldn’t go. That immediately got modified to allow all the UN people to THINK that they were allowed, and the AIs had to track all of the UN people and make sure that they only left the system to go to a couple of special UN and Chinese colonies. None of the UN people ever went to the “Confederacy” colonies set up to build fleets, train armies, and defend Earth.

From Done Voluntold Me! by corsair relevance:3522 at paragraph 54 of 78

"Things were different then," I admitted. "The Confederacy had to ditch the cumshaw United Nations organization and start over with NATO. The United Nations Peacekeeping missions around the world was what the Confederacy originally wanted, but they didn't understand that peacekeeping missions were only launched after all participants declared that they WANTED peace. Declaring a desire for peace isn't the same as wanting peace. Look at the oldest mission in the Middle East. I'm babbling, but the peacekeeping forces are national armies assigned duty under United Nations authority."

From Maquis by starfiend relevance:3388 at paragraph 2340 of 3895

“The UN negotiators specified that. Now a few months after that, weeks actually,” Toby got the impression that the person he was talking to was being prompted, “the Confederacy decided to go to Europe. In actual fact they visited the NATO military headquarters in Europe, where they spoke to a number of very high ranking military personnel, most of whom were American, but also others as well, including British. From that moment on, the USA was directly involved. More agreements were worked out, but at the end of the day the original UN negotiated agreement pretty much remained in place. The initial effect of the US being involved was that the Confederacy now has a large Earth based office, about a block away from the head quarters of the NYPD. That aside, they, we, are still pretty much only allowed on Earth during collections.”

From The First Command by Zen Master relevance:2128 at paragraph 3202 of 3250

Recruiting and Personnel could have been a sticking point, but the AIs are better negotiators than the UN is. Earth and the Confederacy recruiting effort are firmly in the hands of a UN bureaucracy named DECO, the "Directorate of Evacuation and Colonial Operations". As near as we can tell, DECO is run by escapees from an insane asylum, and any colony that actually listens to them is effectively lost to the war effort. Not to worry, DECO has no authority outside of Earth orbit, so once they send the fleet a recruit he is ours.



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