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The outbreak of the [[Human-Covenant War]] prompted a massive expansion of [[Earth]]'s defenses. Even as late as the [[Battle of Reach]] preparations had not yet been completed; a series of new platforms above Earth were set to come online on September 14.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', p. 104</ref> By October 2552, some 300 ODPs were operational.<ref name="armory"/> Many of Earth's ODPs were named after points of interest that they roughly kept station over. | The outbreak of the [[Human-Covenant War]] prompted a massive expansion of [[Earth]]'s defenses. Even as late as the [[Battle of Reach]] preparations had not yet been completed; a series of new platforms above Earth were set to come online on September 14.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', p. 104</ref> By October 2552, some 300 ODPs were operational.<ref name="armory"/> Many of Earth's ODPs were named after points of interest that they roughly kept station over. | ||
A portion of the 300 platforms first saw action at the early stages of the [[Battle of Earth]]. ''[[Athens Station]]'' and ''[[Malta Station]]'' were each destroyed by [[antimatter charge]]s installed by [[Covenant]] boarding parties, while ''[[Cairo Station]]'' only narrowly avoided the same fate as the other platforms thanks to [[John-117|Master Chief]]'s [[Cairo Station (Level)|removal]] of the bomb on board.<ref name="cairo"/> The ODPs were used throughout the drawn-out Battle of Earth after [[Truth's fleet]] arrived, but the Covenant might have already destroyed numerous stations when Truth himself arrived at Earth on the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] in November.<ref>''Halo 3'', campaign level, [[Crow's Nest (level)|Crow's Nest]]</ref> | A portion of the 300 platforms first saw action at the early stages of the [[Battle of Earth]]. ''[[Athens Station]]'' and ''[[Malta Station]]'' were each destroyed by [[antimatter charge]]s installed by [[Covenant]] boarding parties, while ''[[Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station]]'' only narrowly avoided the same fate as the other platforms thanks to [[John-117|Master Chief]]'s [[Cairo Station (Level)|removal]] of the bomb on board.<ref name="cairo"/> The ODPs were used throughout the drawn-out Battle of Earth after [[Truth's fleet]] arrived, but the Covenant might have already destroyed numerous stations when Truth himself arrived at Earth on the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] in November.<ref>''Halo 3'', campaign level, [[Crow's Nest (level)|Crow's Nest]]</ref> | ||
During the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]]'s [[New Phoenix Incident|attack on Earth]] in mid-[[2557]], ODPs defended Earth from the Didact alongside the ships of the UNSC Home Fleet. However, the Didact's ship ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' was too heavily shielded for even the ODPs Super MACs and as a result, the Master Chief had to destroy the ship from the inside with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|HAVOK nuclear warhead]].<ref>''Halo 4'', campaign level, [[Midnight]]</ref> | During the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]]'s [[New Phoenix Incident|attack on Earth]] in mid-[[2557]], ODPs defended Earth from the Didact alongside the ships of the UNSC Home Fleet. However, the Didact's ship ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' was too heavily shielded for even the ODPs Super MACs and as a result, the Master Chief had to destroy the ship from the inside with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|HAVOK nuclear warhead]].<ref>''Halo 4'', campaign level, [[Midnight]]</ref> | ||
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File:H2_Cairo_Airlock_Concept.jpg|Concept art of an ODP's interior airlock. | File:H2_Cairo_Airlock_Concept.jpg|Concept art of an ODP's interior airlock. | ||
File:H2_Cairo_GunConsole_Concept.jpg|Concept art of an ODP's weaponry controls. | File:H2_Cairo_GunConsole_Concept.jpg|Concept art of an ODP's weaponry controls. | ||
File:UNSC Home Fleet.JPG|[[Cairo Station]]'s battle cluster above Earth, one of the dozens of triads in the orbital defense grid. | File:UNSC Home Fleet.JPG|[[Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station]]'s battle cluster above Earth, one of the dozens of triads in the orbital defense grid. | ||
File:CairoStationCallouts.jpg|The typical layout of an ODP. | File:CairoStationCallouts.jpg|The typical layout of an ODP. | ||
File:Macstationcairolarge1ki.jpg|''Cairo Station'' right before the [[Battle of Earth]]. | File:Macstationcairolarge1ki.jpg|''Cairo Station'' right before the [[Battle of Earth]]. | ||