Considered the 'heart' of the modern Authority apparatus, Northern Command is the third oldest regional command, having existed prior to the Authority's existence as the 'Auctoritas New World Interest Group,' predating Columbus' arrival in the Americas. North America would grow to become one of the Auctoritas', and eventually the Authority's, largest frontiers, with settlements spanning the continent's two coasts.

A tense rivalry would develop with the rise of the United States, which, under the Jackson administration, kicked off several 'silent wars' with the Authority, that would never truly be resolved even into the new millennium. When considering this region, one might be tempted to consider the tragedies that occurred at Site-014 or Site-313 as the 'dark chapter' of Northern Command, but they should never forget the 'Great Breach' of 1979, during which GD-North authorized several highly questionable operations in Middle America, as well as the subsequent occupation of the Mexican Branch entirely.

There have only been times when interactions with the United States government have been tenuous, but none more so than after the Fail-Safe Incident of 2019. The Authority compensated the outraged United States in order to safeguard Northern American operations from prospective force removal.

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Operational Districts of Northern Command.

Jurisdictions

• OPDIS-1: New England
• OPDIS-2: Quebec Peninsula
• OPDIS-3: Dixie South
• OPDIS-4: Midwest-Heartland
• OPDIS-5: West Coast
• OPDIS-6: Far North
• OPDIS-7: Mexico

South America played a significant role in the early development of Authority presence on the continent. Prior to the establishment of a region wide command, the Auctoritas influenced the continent's culture and politics with ease, thanks in part to the assistance of the Spanish and Portuguese.

Most natives embraced their arrival on the continent, with the exception of a few who considered them incursions or conquerors of their sovereignty. Resistance from a small number of tribes became common, forcing the Auctoritas to resort to military intervention and a full-fledged territorial conquering. Their actions prompted the 'Great Tribe Question' period, during which the Auctoritas conducted some of the earliest and most contentious human experimentation using anomalies. These experiments continued well into the nineteenth century, but the Auctoritas institute refused to acknowledge them. As the Authority was formed, many of the scientists involved defected and continued their work until [REDACTED].

Southern Command faced numerous political and dictatorial retaliations as a result of centuries of colonialism and revolutionary movements once the twentieth century came to a close. Dictators, such as Argentina's President Juan Perón, were among those in Latin America who posed a threat to the Authority's mission.

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Operational Districts of Southern Command.

Jurisdictions

• OPDIS-1: Greater Colombia
• OPDIS-2: Brazil-Amazon
• OPDIS-3: Andean-North
• OPDIS-4: Southern Cone
• OPDIS-5: Caribbean-Atlantic

As the birthplace of the Auctoritas and the Authority, Western Command is one of the oldest institutions of regional structure. Previously consisting of various centralized commands, Western Command was founded in the 1950s as part of a reformed effort to de-centralize and separate power across the European continent to expand command and control capabilities. Despite its roots to the Catholic Church, Western Command is regarded as a "conservative structure" that holds a mixed perception on religious identity, particularly Catholicism. Catholics within the command, allegedly, are often shown prejudiced in certain regions. This sentiment has been held across many districts since the late 1800s.

For the longest time, Western Command was the Authority's command center until reforms made decentralization a focal policy into the twenty-first century. Considerations for an "Authority headquarters" within Europe was initially drafted in the 1900s, although this was largely postponed due to the Great War and tenuous relations with Europe in this period. As the Second World War began, Authority-European operations were exiled to the British Isles.

Western Commands holds a special relations status with the European continent, particularly the European Union and the Council of Europe. Unlike its other regional counterparts, Western Command has full autonomy within the continent with strong cooperation agreements with local governments, and has the most influence in any other continental regions. However, despite this, the eastern regions of the command are often influenced by Eastern Command despite these regions under the jurisdiction of Western Command.

As of 2008, Western Command remains an Authority stronghold in its existing iteration, containing the majority of the world's installations.

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Operational Districts of Western Command.

Jurisdictions

• OPDIS-1: British Isles
• OPDIS-2: Nordic Region
• OPDIS-3: Western Europe
• OPDIS-4: Central Europe

Previously part of Western Command under "West-East Command" in the 1950s, Eastern Europe was subjected to the watchful eyes of the Soviet Union. Prospering under a new era and eventual turmoil into the Cold War, influence into the east became strenuous to stabilize as the Authority would become a target by communist elements. Eastern Command replaced West-East Command as the Soviet Union advanced its political authority over the Eastern Bloc, posing a serious threat to Authority sovereignty.

Eastern Command continued to function with scarce site operations inside the communist state while confronted with adversity from the Soviet government, including the Iron Initiative. This did not deter Eastern Command from operating within the Eastern Bloc, benefiting from political influence of certain party members and corruption in government.

Some within the Authority suspected Eastern Command of harboring Marxism, culminating in an institutional red scare and accusation within the command's early days, though these proved to be unsubstantiated. When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Western Command took over a large portion of its territory. Many had expected for greater cooperation within the established federation, but that would only be temporary after Vladimir Putin ascended the presidency and pushed for a tougher stance against the Authority.

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Operational Districts of Eastern Command.

Jurisdictions

• OPDIS-1: Moscow
• OPDIS-2: Siberia
• OPDIS-3: Central Asia
• OPDIS-4: Caucasus

Establishing their first foothold in the newly discovered African continent, Africa Command is the second oldest regional command after Northern Command. The first exploration to the west coast of Africa was led by Diogo Cão, supported by the Portuguese royal family and the Papacy and sailed in 1480. Further expeditions into the African plane continued well-into the Age of Discovery, heralding a new continental foothold for the Auctoritas. Much of its earlier precedents and onsets were focused on the expansion and influence across the continent, through European expeditions and colonial expansion. It was foretold by encountered shamans that the continent harbored cryptid creatures that were unimaginable, many of which considered too dangerous to interact or explore further into the depths of the African plane.

As the Auctoritas expanded its supremacy, institutional authority within the Auctoritas' Africa branch becomes unstable in 1828. This came after Pope Pius VII instructed for the apprehension of Zikali, a chief witch-doctor to Shaka Zulu. This resulted in his disappearance and the death of Shaka Zulu, causing the withdrawal of financial backers of the Auctoritas outside the Papacy. It is believed by historians that this action paved for the successful uprising of the Authority.

Into the coming 20th Century, the Authority would face instability and regional conflicts as colonial empires withdrew from the continent. Civil wars and colonial independence would briefly interrupt the expansionist African branches with foreign African armies utilizing anomalies in various regional conflicts and civil war, such as the First Congo War. Stability within the African plane would be soften by UNISAAF intervention, but African insurgency and containment of anomalous species endangering the ecosystem continued to become a regional issue for the exhausted Africa Command.

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Operational Districts of Africa Command.

Jurisdictions

• OPDIS-1: Northern District
• OPDIS-2: Eastern District
• OPDIS-3: Western District
• OPDIS-4: Central District
• OPDIS-5: Southern District

As a growing powerhouse within the Arabic region by the middle of the twentieth century, Eurasia Command plays a vital role in the Authority's economic growth and financial stability. As the Authority transitioned into the 1960s, Eurasia Command was the most under-budgeted in comparison to its regional counterparts as financial priorities were allocated to Eastern Command following Soviet tension.

In 1961, Global Director "Eurasia" began negotiations with several Arabic nations to discuss economic and security co-operation when it came to the veil. Promising assurance to these nations, particularly Saudi Arabia, Eurasia Command would be supplied with the necessary resources and a sum of economic support from the oil industry. These resources would, in the eyes of Global Director "Eurasia", would help their regional command to prosper from the lack of financial support that the Directorate had imposed. This view was not shared with GD-Eurasia's counterparts as they misinterpreted these financial backings from Arab nations, such as Iraq and Syria, as communist elements. Further concerns were raised after an economics report published by the Office of Financial Affairs (OFA) predicted a substantial increase in Eurasia Command's budget would exceed the rest of the regional commands for the next half-decade. To ensure that Global Director "Eurasia" does not cause an unbalanced power with the other regions, the Directorate divided Eurasia Command to establish Asia Command (ASIACOM) in 1967.

Stability within the region was questioned by the Directorate as concerns for the veil succumbing to terrorist organizations were heightened after several coup d'etats between 1948 to 1956. By 1958, an economic package was authorized to Eurasia Command that allowed security to be increased within installations. Between 1970 to 2002, Eurasia Command faced several terrorist and insurgency attacks from Al Qaeda and the Church of Malthus. A coalition with Western nations' special operation forces was established in 2002 under the "750th Intelligence Combatant", and absorbed by the Joint Task Force Occult in 2013.

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Operational Districts of Eurasia Command.

Jurisdictions

• OPDIS-1: Arabia
• OPDIS-2: Crescent-Persia
• OPDIS-3: Indian Subcontinent
• OPDIS-4: Near East

Controversially a cultivating regional element within East Asia, Asia Command was created as a result of increasing Eurasian's sphere across the Authority apparatus. Beginning operations in 1968, Asia Command absorbed the eastern and south-east regions of Eurasia and Antarctica-Oceania Commands respectively. Mainland China became the focal-center operations across the East and South-East Asia, with many regional branches brushed aside by the growing power-houses of the Chinese and Japanese branches.

Various branches within the newly formed command contested for control due to cultural and operability differences. Between 1968 to 1974, the Japanese Branch steadily became a recognizing power within Asia Command as the hierarchy slowly became dominated by personnel from the Japanese mainland. The Japanese Branch grew uncontested, resulting in majority of the regional command's hierarchy consisting of Japanese personnel by the mid-late 1970s.

However, due to the increasing ethnic control by the Japanese branch, the Chinese branch increasingly became tenuous with their Japanese counterparts. These tensions with the two branches culminated instability within Asia Command's structure, with many from the Chinese branch demanding a "power-share" in the hierarchy. The-then Global Director "Asia" refused these demands, and instead reduced the finances of the Chinese branch. Demands for a "power-share" slowly disappeared as the branch weakened, and caused rupture in containment operations within the Chinese region.

Further weakening within Asia Command became apparent in 1976 after the People's Republic of China declared a "General Operation Zone" that resulted in the removal of almost all Authority presence within mainland China. Tenuous ethnic struggle between the Japanese and Chinese continued until the 21st Century, with South-East Asia transferred to Oceania Command allowing Asia Command to focus operations within East Asia and mainland China.

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Operational Districts of Asia Command.

Jurisdictions

• OPDIS-1: East Pacific
• OPDIS-2: South-East
• OPDIS-3: Sino-Himalayans

Due to the ineffective capabilities and effort by the former Antarctica-Oceania Command, Oceanic Command was created as a reformed effort to revitalize containment operations within the Southeast Asia, Oceanic, and Pacific areas. As a region consisting mainly of maritime islands, many Authority sites are consistently located in naval bases within a mainland or artificial island. Operating as a maritime regional command, Oceanic Command was one of inconvenient creations that was the result of an agreement back in the 1950s. Southeast Asia was originally under their domain until the establishment of Asia Command, which took over the territory for a brief period between 1968 to the early 1990s.

There was resentment between these periods towards Asia Command's takeover of the Southeast Asia region mainly due to historical sentiment towards Communist China to Imperialist Japan in the prevailing 1940s. The Australasian Branch, recognized as an ascending Oceanic branches in this period, grew its regional capabilities that extended towards the Polynesian region. It's predecessor, the Antarctica-Oceania Command, was largely controlled by the Australasian Branch and was frequently considered as an "Australian Command" by foreign observers.

Following the return of Southeast Asia to Oceanic Command, the Australasian Branch's influence into the returning territory was often subjugated into controversy by many Southeast Asian counterparts, particularly the Filipino and Indonesian branches. Whilst Oceanic Command is, to this day, largely controlled by Canberra, its influence towards its northern counterparts is weighed down by imperialist sentiments.

The Authority Naval Force (ANF) is primarily located in the jurisdiction of Oceanic Command due to the lack of territory that consisted of mostly islands, and thus holds most of the Authority's naval installations across the Authority structure.

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Operational Districts of Oceanic Command.

Jurisdictions

• OPDIS-1: Australasia
• OPDIS-2: Melanesia-Pacific
• OPDIS-3: Greater Malaysia

Located in the southernmost region of the planet, Antarctica Command is situated in the Territorial South Pole that is responsible for not only the Antarctic continent but also, since [REDACTED], space affairs of the Authority. Original conceptions for a regional command within the antarctic region was a question of necessity during the late 1940s, with early Authority expeditions into the continent dating far back as the early-twentieth Century.

These discussions were, much like Eurasia and Oceanic Commands, held to further separate regional powers concentrated in the Australasia region. When Antarctica was considered for special status as a unique regional operations structure, hierarchy and oversight largely lacked in its inclusion when Antarctica Command was formed. A power-struggle shifted in the region, resulting in various Site and Area Directors to unilaterally be recognized as an equivalence to that of a Regional Site, though this was never approved by the Global Directorate.

Antarctica Command held its first elections in the mid-late 1970s after its establishment. However, this election resulted in a power vacuum and eventual crisis that was intervened by the Directorate. Provisions for the regional elections in Antarctica Command were introduced to allow personnel within the Antarctic theater to vote for their regional representative as opposed to a Regional Director due to the lack of regional sites.

Territorial claims into the continent have complicated logistical and containment efforts. With jurisdictional claims by international observers creating complex diplomatic and territorial recognition in the continent. Site and Area installations became almost impossible to construct due to differing agreements with varying territorial claims by nations.

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Operational Districts of Antarctica Command.

Jurisdictions

Note: Operational districts do not exist within Antarctica Command due to its unique nature. Local facilities within the Antarctica sphere function similarly to operational districts, with the position of Site Directors replaced by Regional Directors to replace the issue of electing Antarctica's regional representative.