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colony drop
A fictional space combat strategy first depicted in the Gundam series.
It consists of dropping an O'Neill Cylinder in a specific area for hostile military purposes and massive destruction.
Specific examples include:
- Operation British - the dropping of Island Iffish on Australia (Mobile Suit Gundam)
- A holographic recreation of this scene with a very different outcome (Gundam Build Fighters Try)
- Operation Stardust - the dropping of a colony on North America (Gundam 0083)
- Operation Apollo - the attempted dropping of a colony onto the moon (Zeta Gundam)
- The dropping of a colony on the city of Dublin (Gundam ZZ)
- The mass drop of colonies that ended the 7th Space War in a global apocalypse (After War Gundam X)
