A/N ok so I received a request to make the chapters long i will try to but I am afraid of making these have too much to read since at the moment it's just the MC making ground work for what's to become his empire but will make the next few chapters about long to see how it goes.
Dark Pov
We are currently on the 10th month of the grace period and the population of Darkadia has reached 1 million after this reaching this point it became apparent that a government was needed to maintain everything so with the help of Red Queen a governmental plan was put in place with myself at the top then my team then a group of 10 people that were elected by the clones to act as their voice below them was all the heads of staff for each aspect such as military and commerce.
With a plan made it was time to implement it and have the clones run an election of sorts to do it and it was decided that no military personnel would be eligible for this election because they would be to military focused and may not voice what the people want.
The election too about a week to get a full cabinet of 10 people surprisingly it was split evenly between men and female and all the candidates chosen had some idea what they wanted to do it was also decided that a new election would be held every 10 years with a condition that a person can only be elected for 3 terms at most this will prevent someone being in power for to long.
Now for what these 10 people will be doing is handling all civilian law making and governing of Darkadia however this does not mean they have absolute power they cannot control the military this falls under the command of Dark and his team but I will still need to form a military command structure to make managing the military easier.
Now with the planet Government made and starting its job of management the planet it's time to begin creating a military command chain with that in mind I went to the bridge and called my team and Red Queen so we could discuss how to structure the military. It did not take long for my team to arrive once they did Red Queen appears on the holo table " right I called everyone her to discuss how to start a military structure we need to do it now since we already have 400 Corvettes and 50 Frigates although due to adding advanced shield technology and the antimatter reactor both ship types have less weapons then normal but still without a chain of command it will be useless to have so many ships since there will be no coordination and we will suffer heavy losses" I stop talking to let my words settle in their minds.
After a few minutes Jess was the first to speak " you are right we need to have generals and captains for the ships and crew but without ranks or some form of command it will be impossible to do anything with all these ships but I will not be incharge of military I have had enough of the killing" I kind of knew she would say that at the end she was always one who preferred science over combat and I suppose her power suits it more too I had already been thinking of establishing a science department to research new things but it would have to wait till after we stop the covenant from getting onto the ark " ok Jess I know you hate killing but for now we do not have time to set up a Science department we first need to stop the covenant from completing their objective I am sure you are all aware of what happens once Master Chief prevents the second halo from firing" my statement causes them all to have a serious look on their faces.
I suddenly remember something " Red Queen did you finish making the AIs for the ships I know it's alot of them but currently the clones have no experience handling ships so it best for them to have an AI to help" this was important as these AI not only help the crew handle the ship but also act as a way of fighting against hacking into the ship " yes I have finished them and also included the code from the system that makes them immune to the logic plague and rampancy they have also begun integration into the ships also as you suggested a batch of clones was taken and have gone through the Spartan program each ship will possess up to 3 Spartans" after she said that the other look at me with strange looks " I know what you are all thinking it's only the normal Spartan program not the one we went through during Project Oblivion I would never let anyone go through that torture again even clones" my team just sigh at my words.
The purpose of these Spartans is divided into two one is to act as a power full solder that can fight stronger opponents but the other is to ensure that the ships onboard AI can be retrieved if the ship is going to be destroyed to accommodate this a new armour which is much stronger than Mjolnir was developed but just as Mjolnir could not be used by ordinary marines this armour could not ether due to it's weight so it was used for the Spartans in this new Spartan project.
After a few hours of discussion a preliminary arrangement of how the military command will be came to be with Dark as the Supreme Commander, Victor as a Ground general who would lead a team of new Spartans, Philip would be a general who will lead a team of Spartans who specialise in explosives allowing for strategic missions and Alice was adamant about leading the Intelligence department since her ability to control the air around her allowed her to make herself and those with her release no sound making infiltration much easier.
Next was the captains, admirals and a few more ground generals to command normal clone troops for this it would have to done using simulation made by Red Queen and Destiny to see which clones were good at what since each clone was made in a way that they would be unique that's why even though cloning facilities had been built on Darkadia and on the space station in orbit there were only one million clones one the planet with a few children being born this does not include the Spartans since they only needed to look different but have the same skill set only the specialized ones were changed such as Intelligence gathering Spartans and Explosive specialists so they were easier to clone but took along time to go through the experiments of the Spartan program to make them super soldiers it was done this way to allow them to develop personalities and also give the chance to bond with others like them since their team will be their family.
After another few hour later Red Queen and Destiny had created the simulation that will be used to decide on who will fill the positions and they were downloaded into simulation pods that had been built on the space station those who wanted to join the military would have to do one of these simulations and their final score would be viable to everyone outside the pod each simulation had a pass score and unless they were able to get that score or more than they would pass and be given a military rank.
It did not take long for all the Corvettes to have captains and full crew since they could accommodate 500 crew and 1000 troops each unfortunately there was only enough troops to have 200 troops in each corvette as for the Frigates they will be used by the Admirals for now since they are the largest ship we have and will act as a command ship with a fleet consisting of 1 Frigate and 80 Corvettes.
It took the rest of the month to fill up the positions on the Frigates but they still had a low troop count due to not enough troops being available but each ship did have a compliment of 3 Spartans this made the ships have at least some source of strong troop force.
A/N that's it for this chapter hope you enjoyed and let me know if you prefer this length of chapter or the old format but do be warned in a few more chapters the events of halo 3 will begin but will change due to Dark and his Forces intervention and I will confirm that a space battles will be happening but please remember it's my first time writing a space battles I will try my best to make it entertaining as possible with that thanks for reading.