- "The SOLG. A military attack satellite that your country began building during the war 15 years ago, then abandoned in the peace that followed."
- ― Nastasya Vasilievna Obertas to Albert Genette
The Strategic Orbital Linear Gun (戦略的な軌道リニアガン Senryaku-tekina Kidō Riniagan) (acronym SOLG) Was an orbital weapons platform and a superweapon developed by the Osean Federation in the midst of the Belkan War in 1995.
History
Conception
The Linear Gun was developed by Osea in 1995 in response to the Belkan Federation's attack on the continent. The creation of the weapon, involving space weapon technologies produced in the Cold War, proceeded without problems until the Battle of Waldreich and the subsequent surrender of Belka in June 1995, at which point the project was cancelled. Since the weapon was mostly complete at that point, Osea abandoned it in the Earth's atmosphere.
Circum-Pacific War
In the 21st century, the SOLG was seized by the Belkan Gray Men, who planned to use it as a last measure in the event of their plans concerning the Circum-Pacific War being discovered. A remote control system was installed in the underground tunnel network they built under the Waldreich Mountains, which would send an order to the SOLG to descend into the atmosphere and crash into a developed area in the case of connection being lost.
The role of the Orbital Linear Gun in the war was discovered by Yuktobanian Major Nastasya Obertas, who obtained a disc containing technical information of the SOLG and a Belkan V2 MIRV weapon secured by the Gray Men during her stay at the Shtil internment camp in the Pobeda Peninsula. When Jack Bartlett and the Razgriz Squadron rescued Seryozha Nikanor from the prison, Obertas delivered the disc to the OFS Kestrel, where it was decoded.
Deployment and destruction
After an emergency conference involving Nikanor and Vincent Harling at Oured, the armies of Osea and Yuktobania launched an attack against Gründer Industries in Sudentor, where they fought the troops of the Gray Men. Following a raid by Osean Marines on the controls of the Waldreich tunnels entrance, Razgriz entered the network and destroyed the SOLG's control systems with the aid of Bartlett, fleeing to Belkan territory before its self-destruct protocol activated.
Within hours of the Sudentor invasion, the satellite received an order to crash on Oured. Its approach was detected by the Osean military, and the Razgriz were rapidly dispatched to the city. The satellite, protected by the Grabacr and Ofnir squadrons in a suicide mission, was intercepted by the Ghosts over the Bay of Oured and destroyed before it could reach the capital, disappearing in a massive explosion.
Design
Trivia
- During mission 27, where the player has to destroy the control system of the SOLG, it seems that the satelite has been finshed by the Belkans as they fire upon the forces attacking the control facility. But in the following mission (27+) there are no sort of weapons in it.