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'''Orbital defense platform'''<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', p. 330</ref> ('''ODP'''),<ref>''Halo Encyclopedia'', p. 294 (2011)</ref> also known as an '''orbital weapon platform''',<ref name="cairo">''[[Halo 2]]'', campaign level, [[Cairo Station (level)|Cairo Station]]</ref> is a general term for a wide variety of [[space station]]s employed by the UNSC. Stations falling into this classification include unmanned weapon satellites all the way to large stations with a capital grade [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] built into it.<ref name="lookingglassed">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-looking-glassed ''Halo Waypoint'': Canon Fodder - Looking Glassed]</ref> Some classes of ODP have the [[hull classification symbol]] of '''OWP'''. | '''Orbital defense platform'''<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', p. 330</ref> ('''ODP'''),<ref>''Halo Encyclopedia'', p. 294 (2011)</ref> also known as an '''orbital weapon platform''',<ref name="cairo">''[[Halo 2]]'', campaign level, [[Cairo Station (level)|Cairo Station]]</ref> is a general term for a wide variety of [[space station]]s employed by the UNSC. Stations falling into this classification include unmanned weapon satellites all the way to large stations with a capital grade [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] built into it.<ref name="lookingglassed">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-looking-glassed ''Halo Waypoint'': Canon Fodder - Looking Glassed]</ref> Some classes of ODP have the [[hull classification symbol]] of '''OWP'''. | ||
Orbital defense platforms are frequently placed in [[geosynchronous orbit]] and deployed in groups, or clusters, of two to five platforms. The well-equipped and large bridge of an ODP is suitable for directing large-scale engagements. Such was the case when [[Lord Hood|Fleet Admiral Sir Terrence Hood]] directed UNSC forces from an ODP during the [[Battle of Earth]]. These platforms are capable of destroying even the largest of [[Covenant]] capital ships but are vulnerable to [[Covenant boarding craft]] which can avoid the heavy slugs and latch onto the stations. If they survive the point defense guns, it is up to the UNSC personnel within the stations to repel any [[Boarding|boarders]].<ref name="cairo"/> | Orbital defense platforms are frequently placed in [[geosynchronous orbit]] and deployed in groups, or clusters, of two to five platforms. The well-equipped and large bridge of an ODP is suitable for directing large-scale engagements. Such was the case when [[Lord Hood|Fleet Admiral Sir Terrence Hood]] directed UNSC forces from an ODP during the [[Battle of Earth]]. These platforms are capable of destroying even the largest of [[Covenant]] capital ships but are vulnerable to [[Covenant boarding craft]] which can avoid the heavy slugs and latch onto the stations. If they survive the point defense guns, it is up to the UNSC personnel within the stations to repel any [[Boarding|boarders]].<ref name="cairo"/> | ||
==Specifications== | ==Specifications== | ||
===Facilities=== | ===Facilities=== | ||
Internally, the stations are remarkably spacious, complete with high ceilings and a monorail system to move personnel and equipment. In addition to numerous small craft bays, there are two docks for larger ships, such as [[freighter]]s, or even [[UNSC frigate|frigates]]. These docking bays could possibly be used to hold [[GA-TL1 Longsword|Longsword fighters]] used to protect the station from hostile spacecraft. The design incorporates many features against potential hostile boarding action, including security stations and small arms racks situated at strategic locations.<ref name="armory">''Halo 2'', campaign level, [[The Armory]]</ref> | Internally, the stations are remarkably spacious, complete with high ceilings and a monorail system to move personnel and equipment. In addition to numerous small craft bays, there are two docks for larger ships, such as [[freighter]]s, or even [[UNSC frigate|frigates]]. These docking bays could possibly be used to hold [[GA-TL1 Longsword|Longsword fighters]] used to protect the station from hostile spacecraft. The design incorporates many features against potential hostile boarding action, including security stations and small arms racks situated at strategic locations.<ref name="armory">''Halo 2'', campaign level, [[The Armory]]</ref> | ||
===Armament=== | ===Armament=== | ||
====MAC platforms==== | ====MAC platforms==== | ||
The primary and crucial armament is a Mk. V "''Super''" [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] capable of causing near-fatal damage to even a shielded Covenant capital warship with a single slug. The slug can weigh up to 3,000 tons and is launched at 4% the speed of light,<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', p. 283</ref><ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach|Halo: The Fall of Reach (2010 edition)]]'', p. 320</ref><ref group="note">While the [[Halo Encyclopedia]] lists the velocity as 40% the speed of light, the figure remains unchanged in the reissue of ''The Fall of Reach'', a more recent source.</ref> ensuring the complete annihilation of the target.<ref name="armory"/> As with starship-mounted MACs, a platform's cannon is commonly controlled by an [[Artificial intelligence|AI]]. Due to the immense power of the MAC, a large recoil dampening system is situated at the base of the cannon.<ref name="cairo"/> The weapon is vulnerable to the detonation of nuclear weapons, as their superconductive coils could be burned out from their electromagnetic pulse.<ref name="TFORC34>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', Chapter 34</ref> | The primary and crucial armament is a Mk. V "''Super''" [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] capable of causing near-fatal damage to even a shielded Covenant capital warship with a single slug. The slug can weigh up to 3,000 tons and is launched at 4% the speed of light,<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', p. 283</ref><ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach|Halo: The Fall of Reach (2010 edition)]]'', p. 320</ref><ref group="note">While the [[Halo Encyclopedia]] lists the velocity as 40% the speed of light, the figure remains unchanged in the reissue of ''The Fall of Reach'', a more recent source.</ref> ensuring the complete annihilation of the target.<ref name="armory"/> As with starship-mounted MACs, a platform's cannon is commonly controlled by an [[Artificial intelligence|AI]]. Due to the immense power of the MAC, a large recoil dampening system is situated at the base of the cannon.<ref name="cairo"/> The weapon is vulnerable to the detonation of nuclear weapons, as their superconductive coils could be burned out from their electromagnetic pulse.<ref name="TFORC34>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', Chapter 34</ref> | ||
====Point defense guns==== | ====Point defense guns==== | ||
Some platforms are armed with a number of [[point-defense gun]]s for close-in defense against enemy munitions, fighters, and boarding craft.<ref name="warfleetpgs3031"/> | Some platforms are armed with a number of [[point-defense gun]]s for close-in defense against enemy munitions, fighters, and boarding craft.<ref name="warfleetpgs3031"/> | ||
===Power plant=== | ===Power plant=== | ||
ODPs do not possess the power generation equipment necessary to fire their main armament. Instead, they receive power from [[orbital defense generator|ground-based generators]]. An effective strategy to neutralize the formidable ODPs would be to disable the generators via ground assault. This would disable the platform's weaponry without destroying it, allowing this valuable prize to be captured or destroyed outright. The Covenant used this strategy during their invasion of [[Reach]], dropping troops to the planet's surface and destroying these generators. This paved the way for Covenant forces to completely overwhelm the UNSC forces in the space battle over Reach. | ODPs do not possess the power generation equipment necessary to fire their main armament. Instead, they receive power from [[orbital defense generator|ground-based generators]]. An effective strategy to neutralize the formidable ODPs would be to disable the generators via ground assault. This would disable the platform's weaponry without destroying it, allowing this valuable prize to be captured or destroyed outright. The Covenant used this strategy during their invasion of [[Reach]], dropping troops to the planet's surface and destroying these generators. This paved the way for Covenant forces to completely overwhelm the UNSC forces in the space battle over Reach. | ||
==Deployment== | ==Deployment== | ||
===Reach=== | ===Reach=== | ||
[[File:Magnetic Accelerator Cannon.png|thumb|right|300px|An ODP above Reach firing its main cannon.]] | [[File:Magnetic Accelerator Cannon.png|thumb|right|300px|An ODP above Reach firing its main cannon.]] | ||
By [[2552#August|August 2552]], [[Reach]] was protected by twenty ODPs. At least one of these platforms was in place by [[2517|May 2517]];<ref>''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]''</ref> a number were online by [[2527]].<ref>''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe'', p. 50</ref> During the [[Fall of Reach]], the orbital defense platforms inflicted massive losses on the Covenant armada in the opening stages of the battle, as well as providing fire support for ground forces on Reach. Large numbers of UNSC forces were deployed to protect the orbital platforms' planetside power generators, but they ultimately fell against determined enemy assaults. The disabling of the defense platforms was a major factor on the battle's outcome.<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach''</ref> | By [[2552#August|August 2552]], [[Reach]] was protected by twenty ODPs. At least one of these platforms was in place by [[2517|May 2517]];<ref>''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]''</ref> a number were online by [[2527]].<ref>''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe'', p. 50</ref> During the [[Fall of Reach]], the orbital defense platforms inflicted massive losses on the Covenant armada in the opening stages of the battle, as well as providing fire support for ground forces on Reach. Large numbers of UNSC forces were deployed to protect the orbital platforms' planetside power generators, but they ultimately fell against determined enemy assaults. The disabling of the defense platforms was a major factor on the battle's outcome.<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach''</ref> | ||
===Earth=== | ===Earth=== | ||
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. | ||
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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> | ||
===New Carthage=== | ===New Carthage=== | ||
The MJOLNIR GEN2 [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Infiltrator|Infiltrator]] was tested on [[New Carthage]]'s orbital defense platforms. | The MJOLNIR GEN2 [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Infiltrator|Infiltrator]] was tested on [[New Carthage]]'s orbital defense platforms. | ||
===Camber=== | ===Camber=== | ||
Several orbital defense platforms were stationed around [[Camber]]; these were eventually destroyed when the Covenant [[Battle of Camber|destroyed]] the planet during the Human-Covenant War. | Several orbital defense platforms were stationed around [[Camber]]; these were eventually destroyed when the Covenant [[Battle of Camber|destroyed]] the planet during the Human-Covenant War. | ||
===Meridian=== | ===Meridian=== | ||
Several orbital defense platforms held station above the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Meridian]], owing to the world's critical importance as an industrial supplier of the UNSC; these stations were lost to the Covenant during the [[Battle of Meridian]] in [[2551]]. | Several orbital defense platforms held station above the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Meridian]], owing to the world's critical importance as an industrial supplier of the UNSC; these stations were lost to the Covenant during the [[Battle of Meridian]] in [[2551]]. | ||
==Stations of the line== | ==Stations of the line== | ||
*'''{{Class|Moncton|orbital weapon platform}}''' - A large MAC-based ODP that was deployed en masse over [[Earth]].<ref name="cairo"/> | *'''{{Class|Moncton|orbital weapon platform}}''' - A large MAC-based ODP that was deployed en masse over [[Earth]].<ref name="cairo"/> | ||
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File:HFB-ODP.jpg|Model of the orbital MAC platforms for ''Halo: Fleet Battles''. | File:HFB-ODP.jpg|Model of the orbital MAC platforms for ''Halo: Fleet Battles''. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Gameplay== | ==Gameplay== | ||
===''Halo: Fleet Battles''=== | ===''Halo: Fleet Battles''=== | ||
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**Firing arc: Forward | **Firing arc: Forward | ||
**Dice: 10 | **Dice: 10 | ||
====Rules==== | ====Rules==== | ||
*'''Fighter Cover''': Only Interceptors can be selected by MAC platforms. Bombers are not available. | *'''Fighter Cover''': Only Interceptors can be selected by MAC platforms. Bombers are not available. | ||
*'''Vital Defensive Asset''': A maximum of two MAC platforms per full 1,000 points are permitted. | *'''Vital Defensive Asset''': A maximum of two MAC platforms per full 1,000 points are permitted. | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
{{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Images of orbital defense platforms}} | {{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Images of orbital defense platforms}} | ||
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*The kinetic energy of a single shell from an orbital defense platform would be equivalent to almost''' '''51.6 gigatons of TNT, 1,031 times the yield of the real world's largest nuclear weapon currently tested. | *The kinetic energy of a single shell from an orbital defense platform would be equivalent to almost''' '''51.6 gigatons of TNT, 1,031 times the yield of the real world's largest nuclear weapon currently tested. | ||
*The orbital defense platforms had entered the conceptual stage sometime around the 2490s, as [[Avery Johnson]] mentions that they were being proposed around the same time he shipped out for boot camp. | *The orbital defense platforms had entered the conceptual stage sometime around the 2490s, as [[Avery Johnson]] mentions that they were being proposed around the same time he shipped out for boot camp. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
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File:H5G-Infinity&Guardian.jpg|Several ODPs in Earth orbit as the ''Infinity'' and her escorts approach the Guardian. | File:H5G-Infinity&Guardian.jpg|Several ODPs in Earth orbit as the ''Infinity'' and her escorts approach the Guardian. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}} | ||
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*''[[Halo Mythos]]'' | *''[[Halo Mythos]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Lone Wolf]]'' | *''[[Halo: Lone Wolf]]'' | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
<References group="note"/> | <References group="note"/> | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
Revision as of 10:13, January 3, 2020
- "That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant capital ship."
- — Avery Johnson, describing the gun of a Moncton-class orbital weapons platform.[1]
Orbital defense platform[2] (ODP),[3] also known as an orbital weapon platform,[1] is a general term for a wide variety of space stations employed by the UNSC. Stations falling into this classification include unmanned weapon satellites all the way to large stations with a capital grade Magnetic Accelerator Cannon built into it.[4] Some classes of ODP have the hull classification symbol of OWP.
Orbital defense platforms are frequently placed in geosynchronous orbit and deployed in groups, or clusters, of two to five platforms. The well-equipped and large bridge of an ODP is suitable for directing large-scale engagements. Such was the case when Fleet Admiral Sir Terrence Hood directed UNSC forces from an ODP during the Battle of Earth. These platforms are capable of destroying even the largest of Covenant capital ships but are vulnerable to Covenant boarding craft which can avoid the heavy slugs and latch onto the stations. If they survive the point defense guns, it is up to the UNSC personnel within the stations to repel any boarders.[1]
Specifications
Facilities
Internally, the stations are remarkably spacious, complete with high ceilings and a monorail system to move personnel and equipment. In addition to numerous small craft bays, there are two docks for larger ships, such as freighters, or even frigates. These docking bays could possibly be used to hold Longsword fighters used to protect the station from hostile spacecraft. The design incorporates many features against potential hostile boarding action, including security stations and small arms racks situated at strategic locations.[5]
Armament
MAC platforms
The primary and crucial armament is a Mk. V "Super" Magnetic Accelerator Cannon capable of causing near-fatal damage to even a shielded Covenant capital warship with a single slug. The slug can weigh up to 3,000 tons and is launched at 4% the speed of light,[6][7][note 1] ensuring the complete annihilation of the target.[5] As with starship-mounted MACs, a platform's cannon is commonly controlled by an AI. Due to the immense power of the MAC, a large recoil dampening system is situated at the base of the cannon.[1] The weapon is vulnerable to the detonation of nuclear weapons, as their superconductive coils could be burned out from their electromagnetic pulse.[8]
Point defense guns
Some platforms are armed with a number of point-defense guns for close-in defense against enemy munitions, fighters, and boarding craft.[9]
Power plant
ODPs do not possess the power generation equipment necessary to fire their main armament. Instead, they receive power from ground-based generators. An effective strategy to neutralize the formidable ODPs would be to disable the generators via ground assault. This would disable the platform's weaponry without destroying it, allowing this valuable prize to be captured or destroyed outright. The Covenant used this strategy during their invasion of Reach, dropping troops to the planet's surface and destroying these generators. This paved the way for Covenant forces to completely overwhelm the UNSC forces in the space battle over Reach.
Deployment
Reach
By August 2552, Reach was protected by twenty ODPs. At least one of these platforms was in place by May 2517;[10] a number were online by 2527.[11] During the Fall of Reach, the orbital defense platforms inflicted massive losses on the Covenant armada in the opening stages of the battle, as well as providing fire support for ground forces on Reach. Large numbers of UNSC forces were deployed to protect the orbital platforms' planetside power generators, but they ultimately fell against determined enemy assaults. The disabling of the defense platforms was a major factor on the battle's outcome.[12]
Earth
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.[13] By October 2552, some 300 ODPs were operational.[5] 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 charges installed by Covenant boarding parties, while Cairo Station only narrowly avoided the same fate as the other platforms thanks to Master Chief's removal of the bomb on board.[1] 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.[14]
During the Didact's 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 nuclear warhead.[15]
New Carthage
The MJOLNIR GEN2 Infiltrator was tested on New Carthage's orbital defense platforms.
Camber
Several orbital defense platforms were stationed around Camber; these were eventually destroyed when the Covenant destroyed the planet during the Human-Covenant War.
Meridian
Several orbital defense platforms held station above the Outer Colony of Meridian, owing to the world's critical importance as an industrial supplier of the UNSC; these stations were lost to the Covenant during the Battle of Meridian in 2551.
Stations of the line
- Moncton-class orbital weapon platform - A large MAC-based ODP that was deployed en masse over Earth.[1]
- H2-CairoStation-MAC-ODP.png
Cutout of Cairo Station, a Moncton-class from Halo 2.
- Unidentified MAC platform - A large MAC-based ODP deployed over Reach.[4]
Model of the orbital MAC platforms for Halo: Fleet Battles.
Gameplay
Halo: Fleet Battles
UNSC MAC Platform
This element includes a single ODP.
- Cost: 160 points
- Movement: 0"
- Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 3
- Build rating: 3
- Hangars: 4
- Boarding Craft: 2
- Security detail: 6
- System loadouts:
- Emplacement
- Point defense (5)
- Titanium armor (5)
- Primary weapon: Super MAC
- Range: 20/40"
- Weapon loadouts: MAC (3)
- Firing arc: Forward
- Dice: 10
Rules
- Fighter Cover: Only Interceptors can be selected by MAC platforms. Bombers are not available.
- Vital Defensive Asset: A maximum of two MAC platforms per full 1,000 points are permitted.
Trivia
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- All known orbital defense platforms over Earth are named after cities on Earth. It is also apparent that the stations' names are also based roughly on the region they orbit above: Cairo, Athens, and Malta, for example, are located rather close to each other geographically. However, the stations' locations do not directly correspond to the planetside locations of the cities, as the other stations in Cairo's battle cluster can easily be seen with the naked eye, whereas their namesakes are hundreds of kilometers apart.
- The fact that there are 300 ODPs orbiting Earth 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 Fall of Reach, when the UNSC Security Council 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, 1,031 times the yield of the real world's largest nuclear weapon currently tested.
- The orbital defense platforms had entered the conceptual stage sometime around the 2490s, as Avery Johnson mentions that they were being proposed around the same time he shipped out for boot camp.
Gallery
Concept art of an ODP's fighter launch bay Halo 2.
Concept art of an M12 Force Application Vehicle in an ODP's interior airlock.
Concept art of an ODP's interior airlock.
Concept art of an ODP's weaponry controls.
Cairo Station's battle cluster above Earth, one of the dozens of triads in the orbital defense grid.
The typical layout of an ODP.
Cairo Station right before the Battle of Earth.
Nassau Station firing its MAC in Halo: Uprising.
An orbital defense platform above Reach, along with the Epsilon Eridani Defense Fleet in Halo: Fall of Reach.
An ODP, as shown in one of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary's Terminals.
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An ODP shown in orbit above Earth.
Oaxaca Station in 2558 in Halo: Escalation.
- H2A - ODP.jpg
Cairo Station with docked In Amber Clad from Halo 2: Anniversary.
The underside of a Super MAC platform.
The dampening system at the base of an ODP's MAC.
Cairo Station firing its MAC.
ODPs firing at a Covenant fleet in the Halo 2 Anniversary Terminals.
Orbital MACs in Halo: Fleet Battles.
An ODP in the vicinity of a newly awakened Guardian above Earth in Halo 5: Guardians.
Several ODPs in Earth orbit as the Infinity and her escorts approach the Guardian.
List of appearances
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
- Halo: First Strike (Mentioned only)
- Halo 2
- Halo: Uprising
- Halo Legends
- Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
- Halo: Reach
- Halo: Fall of Reach
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
- Halo 4 (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Escalation
- Halo 2: Anniversary
- Halo: Fleet Battles
- Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Halo Mythos
- Halo: Lone Wolf
Notes
- ^ While the Halo Encyclopedia lists the velocity as 40% the speed of light, the figure remains unchanged in the reissue of The Fall of Reach, a more recent source.
Sources
- ^ a b c d e f Halo 2, campaign level, Cairo Station
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, p. 330
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia, p. 294 (2011)
- ^ a b Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder - Looking Glassed
- ^ a b c Halo 2, campaign level, The Armory
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, p. 283
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach (2010 edition), p. 320
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, Chapter 34
- ^ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedwarfleetpgs3031 - ^ Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, p. 50
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach
- ^ Halo: First Strike, p. 104
- ^ Halo 3, campaign level, Crow's Nest
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level, Midnight
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