Megalith (Ace Combat)
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Megalith is a fictional superweapon in the PlayStation 2 video game, Ace Combat 04.
Megalith
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Ballistic missile launch base |
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Based |
Twinkle Islands, Southwest Erusean coast |
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Supporting units |
Three, five fighter configurations from Yellow Squadron. A total of 15 Su-37 aircraft. |
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[edit] Description
Megalith is a massive missile silo facility with the primary purpose of housing missiles designed to destroy asteroid fragments and alter the orbit of larger Near-Earth Objects (NEO). Given this, it was meant to be a secondary solution against NEOs or perhaps at some point replace Stonehenge. Megalith houses about 10 separate silos for launching smaller missiles, with a larger silo in the main complex for a single larger missile. Development of the facility took place before the Usea continental war and was functional by the war's end. Megalith was built upon an island to the south of Farbanti. Because it has the ability to launch missiles, its range surpassed that of Stonehenge, so much so that it not only covered the entire Usea continent, but the range easily went beyond North Point.
By October 2005 (In the Ace Combat timeline), it was commandeered by rogue officers from Erusea. Although it was not stated in the game, it can be implied that they may have fitted Megalith to launch ICBMs or even MIRVs, as seen from the briefing where a simulation on a tactical map shows objects hitting several points with a damage radius (though oddly enough, none of these points were key locations).
Megalith's only defense is the structure itself and three five-aircraft flights of Su-37s from Yellow Squadron. Its key weakness is the heat ports, which were wide enough for a highly skilled pilot to navigate through and destroy the facility's three power generators (the exploitation of this weakness was similar to how the Rebel Alliance destroyed the second Death Star in Star Wars).
[edit] History
After the invasion of the Usea mainland, ISAF discovered Megalith, from a recon mission from a U2 spy plane during the 13th mission in the game. It is mentioned occasionally in the game after that, though mostly to tell the player that ISAF wants to end the war before Megalith is completed. Its development continued, and ISAF was too late to reach its goal. When Erusea officially surrendered, a group of rogue officers commandeered Megalith, making it an immediate threat. Mobius sqadron and an ISAF ground unit were tasked with destroying the facility. Although it could not attack aircraft, three five-aircraft flights of Su-37s from Yellow Squadron were deployed to defend it. The legendary Mobius One assisted the ground unit's infiltration and destroyed the facility's most powerful missile while it was being readied for launch, resulting in the destruction of Megalith.
[edit] Trivia
- A "Megalith" is a large stone, such as those used to build Stonehenge.
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