CAA Factbook

The CAA Factbook is a document pruduced by the Colonial Administration Authority, containing extensive files on everything under jurisdiction of the CAA.

Planet: Reach (excerpt from CAA FACTBOOK [l.update 12.7.2535])

 * Length of day: 27 hours
 * Length of year: 390 days (local)
 * Gravity: ~1.08 g
 * Natural satellites: [2] Csodaszarvas, Turul

Reach is the 4th largest planet in the Epsilon Eridani [K2 Orange-red dwarf] system, second closest to ε Eridani. Stable for planet of its age [<1B years]. First planetary confirmations were in early 21st century.

Reach is the location of the UNSC's largest and most active shipyard. It is also where the UNSC's most elite troops, the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, are trained. Reach is also the largest non-automated exporter of titanium. ε Eridani's superior interstellar jump point has been the most active S-F space transfer zone (arrivals and departures) for over thirty years, with ε Eridani's inferior IJP and Sol's superior IJP regularly trading second and third place spots.

Population: 703,341,500

Largest Cities: Manassas, Quezon, Ezhtergom

Military Power: Reach (excerpt from CAA FACTBOOK [l.update 1.5.2550])

 * Total Available Military Manpower: 385,421,100
 * Total Land Assets: 58,430
 * Total Naval Assets: 1,209 (T); 75 (X)
 * Total Air Assets: 11,050
 * Serviceable Airports: 1,246
 * Defense Budget: cR. 38,287,000,000 [2548]

While Earth is rightly seen as the UNSC's commercial, political, and cultural center; Reach is undeniably the hub of its military power.

The ε Eridani fleet is a full strength Carrier Group with the supercarrier UNSC Trafalgar at its core. The planet itself has a semi-mobile array of 20 Orbital Defense Platforms, and they are in turn defended by multiple wings of single ships and tactical multi-role craft.

The Spartan Project: (excerpt from CAA FACTBOOK [l.update. 5.21.2547])
The members of the Spartan Program are elite military operators recruited from all corners of UNSC governed space. Each of them is a highly decorated veteran with literal decades of combat experience and an unwavering commitment to the defense of mankind. In order to aid them in their goal, they are armed with the absolute bleeding edge in military technology--the Mjolnir powered assault armor.

More to the point, the Spartan super-soldiers are the only men and women alive with the extensive training and physical wherewithal necessary to harness the full potential of this highly specialized equipment.