Satellite Orbital Linear Gun
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The SOLG (Strategic Orbital Linear Gun) is a fictional superweapon created for the video game Ace Combat 5 for the Playstation 2 by Namco.
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[edit] The Belkan War
Built by the huge superpower of Osea sometime during the Belkan war[1] as a military attack satellite, although capable of launching conventional and nuclear warheads, it was specifically designed to launch hi-tech MIRV (Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle) missiles.
Despite complex technology employed in the SOLG it is completely unmanned: its four pronged struts providing stability in orbit, its main length made up of a magnetically accelerated rail gun and six lines of three solar panels each providing power to its magnets. Instead the SOLG is operated by a control centre on Earth where all SOLG functions are based.
Due to the huge size of the project (it is approximately the same mass as the Arkbird however would have to have been built in orbit rather than on the ground, and is still even bigger in length than the Arkbird) it was never completed to see the end of the war, instead after the close of the Belkan War it was left in orbit half completed until the International Space Station project made plans to convert the fearful weapon into the start of the station itself.
The SOLG is unique in that it is the only unmanned permanent satellite that can receive SSTO shipments, the only other craft being the manned manuverable orbiting spacecraft, the Arkbird that occasionally must dive into the atmosphere to make use of friction for course correction.
[edit] Circum Pacific War
Although the SOLG never saw operational use against Belka, in an ironic turn of events after covertly provoking full-scale war between Osea and Yuktobania, Belka under North Osea Gründer Industries (secretly a Belkan loyalist organisation), gained full access to the SOLG and established a command centre inside a secret tunnel which would have been used to transport troops secretly through the mountain range between Belka and Osea to reunite Belka with what it considers the stolen lands of South Belka (named North Osea)[2].
From the SOLG, which was completed by Belka by using the Osean Mass driver and SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit) from Basset Space Centre[3], the Belkans planned to launch a V2 MIRV missile, which was also secretly completed, at either Osea or Yuktobania, or eventually both, destroying almost all civilian and military centres in both countries and bringing about Belka's total victory.
After this information is intercepted by Yuktobanian agent known as 'Major' the newly formed allies of Osea and Yuktobania, spearheaded politically by President Vincent Harling and Prime Minister Seryozha Viktrovich Nikanor and led by the legendary Razgriz squadron, launched an attack on Sudentor where the command centre was successfully captured and destroyed by allied forces.
In a final act of defiance, Belka had programmed the SOLG in the event of loss of its data stream before launch of the V2 missile to drop into downtown Oured, the capital of Osea. Although guarded by Belkan aggressors Grabacr and Ofnir, Osea's blueprints of the SOLG from the war allowed an exploitable point to be found and destroyed by the Razgriz pilots, causing the SOLG to lose structural integrity and break apart in orbit. It would see as it was torn apart when a volatile section (possibly the missile itself) was detonated, causing a spectacular explosion and meteor shower over Oured bay.
[edit] MIRV missile
Although a fearsome weapon in its own right, the SOLG's purpose was to launch an experimental and presumably top-secret MIRV missile. Although called a missile, the MIRV would have been unlikely to have a propulsion device, as it would have been outside the atmosphere at launch. Using its ultra high altitude, the MIRV would break apart in mid flight and release seven individual targetable nuclear warheads. These warheads would then have dropped in selected areas, causing massive and instantaneous damage upon the country targeted. Although the MIRV design was created by Osea to be used against Belka, the Circum-Pacific war caused the design to fall into their own hands, where it was completed and built with materials it already was in possession of (Belka had been capable of and had indeed used nuclear weapons before) and was named V2.
[edit] References
- ^ See AC5 cut scene Sea of Chaos ... your country began building during the war fifteen years ago, then abandoned in the peace that followed
- ^ See AC5 Mission 27:Aces briefing Their ultimate goal is to reunite the two Belkas
- ^ See AC5 cutscene Sea of chaos: Now even after the Arkbird was destroyed, the space centre's mass driver is still sending supplies into orbit
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