Osean Space Agency 'Arkbird'

OSEAN FEDERATION
OSEAN SPACE AGENCY/STRATEGIC DEFENCE INITIATIVE

ARKBIRD

This is the patch worn by Osean Astronauts that operated the Arkbird during the clearing of the Ulysses 1994XF04 Asteroid's debris disposal and the Circum-Pacific War of 2010 between the Osean Federation and the Union of Yuktobanian Republics.

History of the Arkbird

During the cold war, the Osean-Yuktobanian relations were getting worse, starting from Mutual Assured Destruction to Countervailing Strategy. At last, both of them reached Strategic Defense Initiative. This was because the qualities of strategic weapons such as ICBM were improved rapidly and the platforms like reconnaissance satellites and alert systems advanced as well. What was more important was that Satellite Based Laser and Anti Satellite Technologies were deployed in addition to the existing ground to air missile defense systems. Arkbird was originally designed to go beyond all these SBLs and ASATs. Arkbird, which is able to keep flying without landing, was expected to detect enemy missile launch, go up to the point where the missile is about fly through and intercept it by means of its hyper laser weapon in any phase.
Just before Arkbird took flight, Ulysses was discovered to be coming close at hand. It was also found that Ulysses would surmount Roche limits of Earth and crash down mainly on the Usean continent. The Usean countries constructed Stonehenge to protect the continent. Stonehenge combated Ulysses, but it never constituted a solution to the space debris that Ulysses left behind, espicially once it was destroyed by ISAF forces during the war. In this phase, Arkbird took its first flight as a suitable replacement of Stonehenge to get rid of these debris which might jeopardize not only Usean continent but also Osea, Yuktobania and others.