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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*All known Orbital Defense Platforms over Earth are named after cities on Earth. As the stations are geosynchronous, it's possible they are named for the cities they orbit above. This is supported when in Halo 2 it states that the Cairo, Athens and Malta are part of one battlegroup, and the Earth cities they are named for are located close to each other geographically. | *All known Orbital Defense Platforms over Earth are named after cities on Earth. As the stations are geosynchronous, it's possible they are named for the cities they orbit above. This is supported when in ''Halo 2'' it states that the Cairo, Athens and Malta are part of one battlegroup, and the Earth cities they are named for are located close to each other geographically. | ||
*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. | *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. | ||
*Two weeks after the | *Two weeks after the Fall of Reach, when the UNSC Security Committee met at HIGHCOM in Sydney, it is mentioned by Colonel Ackerson that most of Earth's ODPs would take ten days before becoming fully operational. | ||
*The kinetic energy of a single shell from an orbital defense platform would be equivalent to almost''' '''51.6 gigatons of TNT, 1031.08 times the yield of the current world's largest nuclear weapon ever tested. | *The kinetic energy of a single shell from an orbital defense platform would be equivalent to almost''' '''51.6 gigatons of TNT, 1031.08 times the yield of the current world's largest nuclear weapon ever tested. | ||
*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. | *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. | ||
*ODPs can also fire downwards into the atmosphere, as shown in Halo: Reach when an ODP's MAC round destroys a Covenant Corvette in atmosphere. | *ODPs can also fire downwards into the atmosphere, as shown in ''Halo: Reach'' when an ODP's MAC round destroys a Covenant Corvette in atmosphere. | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
