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| *''[[Nassau Station]]'' (Unknown) | | *''[[Nassau Station]]'' (Unknown) |
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| ==Trivia==
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| *All known Orbital Defense Platforms over Earth are named after cities on Earth.
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| *The fact that there are 300 ODPs could be a reference to the Battle of Thermopylae, in which 300 Spartans used the phalanx formation to hold their own against an army of more than 200,000 Persians.
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| *Two weeks after the Battle of Reach, when the UNSC Security Commitee met at HIGHCOM in Sydney, it is mentioned by Colonel Ackerson that most of Earth's ODP'S would take ten days before being fully operational.
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| *The kinetic energy of a single shell from an orbital defense platform would be equivalent to almost 300000 megatons of TNT, almost 60 times the entire world's current nuclear arsenal.
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| *They were originally proposed sometime before 2490 as [[Avery Johnson]] mentions that they were being proposed around the same time he shipped out for boot camp.<ref name="armory"/>
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
| <references/> | | <references/> |
