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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. | *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 [[Wikipedia:Battle of Thermopylae|Battle of Thermopylae]], in which 300 [[Sparta]]ns used the phalanx formation to hold their own against an army of more than 200,000 Persians. | *The fact that there are 300 ODPs orbiting Earth could be a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Thermopylae|Battle of Thermopylae]], in which 300 [[Wikipedia:Sparta|Sparta]]ns 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. | *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 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. | ||