Ardclach Orbital Strike

The Ardclach Orbital Strike was an incident that occurred on 12.IV.1656 AN, during the War of Lost Brothers and which marked the first occasion in which weapons deployed from orbit, in this instance the NSS Damocles, had been used against a terrestrial target, in this instance ship-repair facilities and military installations established by the New Zimian War League in the settlement of Ardclach, located in the ungoverned regions of Northern Keltia.

Authorisation for the strike had been given weeks previously but had been deferred to allow for a fortuitous conjunction of climatic and meteorological conditions.

Munitions deployed consisted of four kinetic "kill vehicles" deployed from an altitude of 410 km by the Damocles, which had assumed a geosynchronous orbit over the target site on the night previously.