Cairo Station

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Cairo Station
Ship history
	Unified Earth Government
Class:	Moncton-class orbital weapon platform
Identification:	OWP-142
Operator:	UNSC Navy
Manufacturer:	Vosper Engineering, Luna
Naval architect:	Lead Engineer Alexander Kerr-Fox Dr. Stephen Loftus
Commissioned:	September 14, 2552
General characteristics Length: 536 metres (1,760 ft) Height: 1,336 metres (4,380 ft) Maneuver drive: Station-keeping thrusters Slipspace drive: None Crew: 152 naval personnel Troops: 136 Marines Hull: Durasteel armor Armaments: 1 14D4A1 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon 7 M606 Goalkeeper point defense guns Air wing: SKT-9 Bumblebee lifeboats 10 D77 Pelicans or F-41D Broadswords

Cairo Station (hull classification symbol OWP-142) is a Moncton-class orbital weapon platform in geosynchronous orbit about 35,900 kilometers above Earth. Named after the Egyptian city of Cairo, it is in the same battle cluster as Athens and Malta stations and seems to be mainly guarding the area above the Mediterranean. The station was commanded by Fleet Admiral Lord Terrence Hood during the Battle for Earth.

History

Human-Covenant war

Cairo Station was assembled and put into Earth's orbit by Vosper Engineering in August 23, 2550, and officially commissioned on September 14, 2552 when it was designated as the flagship headquarters of the Earth Defense Coordination Zone. During construction, Gabby Collins' husband died in a "stupid accident". In preparation for the inevitable Battle for Earth, Fleet Admiral Joseph Harper had UNSC Chevalier deploy a security team to the station to facilitate the arrival of Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood. The security team was later assessed before Hood arrived.

On October 20, 2552, John-117 received the MJOLNIR Mark VI armor in the Cairo armory prior to attending an awards ceremony on the station's command center. The ceremony was interrupted by the start of the Battle for Earth when a fleet of thirteen Covenant Ket-pattern battlecruisers and two CAS-class assault carriers attacked Earth. They tried to break through the Cairo's battle cluster by sending boarding craft to plant bombs on the stations to destroy them. Fleet Admiral Hood commanded the UNSC forces from the station during the attack. Unlike the Athens and the Malta, Cairo survived the Covenant attempt to detonate an Chershi-pattern antimatter charge on board thanks to the efforts of John-117 and Cortana who was acting as the station's AI at the time. In an ironic twist, the bomb was located and used by John-117 to destroy a Covenant assault carrier, Day of Jubilation.

Hood remained aboard the station for most of the battle. On November 3, Hood and a navigation officer aboard Cairo helped Blue Team hijack Covenant destroyer Bloodied Spirit and jump into slipspace for Onyx by providing slipstream space coordinates and other intel. When John-117 returned later to Earth on November 17, Cairo was still intact, but appeared damaged from the battle. Lord Hood was still on board and in command of the UNSC forces participating in the Battle of Earth. The Cairo, the other MAC platforms, and the Home Fleet held firm against the onslaught of the Prophet of Truth's final invasion forces.