Jerome Luke Smithson is a British-born UNSC politician and was the 59th Secretary-General of the UEG from 2562 to 2565, and leader of the Liberal Party from 2558 to 2565. As Secretary-General, he enacted far-reaching reforms in healthcare and living standards, as well as increasing the rate of the UNSC's post-GW1 rebuilding, which dramtically improved living standards. However, among his actions was a massive military budget cut, diverting the funds to recolonisation and reconstruction efforts, despite ONI's dire warnings of potential threats emerging among the Covenant remnant factions. Initially, this was a popular and indeed neccessary move - the loss of Reach and devastation of Earth left the UNSC in a precarious position, on the verge of economic collapse and heavily dependent on the