G.O.D. SATELLITE |
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Earth Alliance "Global Orbital Defense-grid", better known as "G.O.D." is the primary planetary defense platform used by the Earth Alliance to protect their home world and major colonies. This latest version of the G.O.D. system was developed after the Earth/Minbari war, to act as a viable deterrent against possible invasion from alien forces. G.O.D. network in orbit of Earth consists of some two hundred Aegis class defense satellites circling the earth in an orbit of approximately 1,000 kilometers. These satellites are armed with one heavy Particle Beam cannon, three omni-direcional pulse cannon guns and up to 80 missiles with variable yield warheads. The primary Particle Beam cannon onboard are rated at a maximum energy output of 2 million Terawatts, enough destructive energy to decimate the East coast of the continental United States, or the whole of Great Britain. However it should be noted that this type of discharge would destroy the satelite upon firing. Fusion missiles aboard the Aegis satellites have a mean output in the kiloton range for short-range combat or as high as the multi-megaton range for long-range planetary defense. |