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What started as a thermal mining operation in the sixties has now become home to the Omega Space Gun, the world's most affordable way to launch satellites and deep space probes.

Our unique Atlantic Ocean location allows for this gigantic coil gun, running longer than a Marathon, to safely launch projectiles without risk of damaging the payload with risky combustion.
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The Omega Space Gun (OSG) is a colossal electromagnetic mass driver located at Site Phi, used to safely launch spacecraft into Earth orbit. The Omega Space Gun was developed as an alternative to rocket technology, with the intent of making space launches safer and less expensive.

Description

The gun uses electromagnets to accelerate projectiles, loaded into metal "bullets," to extreme velocities. Once in space, the spacecraft is jettisoned from its bullet and uses its onboard thrusters to adjust its trajectory into the desired orbit. Like many other machines in PATHOS-II, the Space Gun is operated from a Pilot Seat, allowing a user to remotely control the crane used to load projectiles into the gun, and to begin the gun's firing sequence.

The gun is approximately 7290m (23917ft) long, the length of its barrel running from the ocean floor in the Omega Sector to Site Omega on the ocean surface, the latter of which served as both the monitoring station for the Omega Space Gun as well as being the main communication and weather broadcasting relay for PATHOS-II. The Omega Space Gun can shoot a maximum payload of 10 tonnes at a maximum speed of 42000 km/h.

Appearances

After the Impact Event destroyed the Earth's surface, a small group of PATHOS-II's staff, having developed the ARK as the last hope for humanity's survival, take it to the gun to launch it into interplanetary space. However, a disagreement between Catherine Chun and the others ends with her accidentally being killed in the resulting struggle, forcing the others to retreat to Tau and postpone the launch until a later date.

In some point, after Tau's failed evacuation attempt, the Space Gun's original operator, Antjie Coetzee, climbed the gun's barrel to reach Omega platform.

In SOMA

Simon Jarrett arrives in Phi on May 11, 2104, around 3:30. He loads the ARK into the Omega Space Gun using a Pilot Seat and successfully launches it into space, causing a power outage throughout Phi. After Simon realizes he isn't on the ARK, he and Catherine Chun have a heated argument. The Omnitool containing Catherine's brain scan breaks, due to either stress or the high pressure in the Omega Sector, leaving Simon alone in Phi.

Launch Log

Week #488

Project: TACT-SX
Owner: Haimatsu
Type: Orbital Platform Freighter
Launch: 2102-12-19 @ 13:00:00
***MISSION COMPLETED***

Project: ENDO
Owner: Luna Prospex
Type: Remote sensing satellite
Launch: 2103-12-20 @ 13:30:00
***MISSION COMPLETED***

Week #489

Project: TACT-SX
Owner: Haimatsu
Type: Orbital Platform Freighter
Launch: 2102-12-26 @ 13:00:00
***MISSION COMPLETED***

Project: REVEAL
Owner: Sino-Indian Federation
Type: Communications satellite
Launch: 2102-12-27 @ 13:00:00
***MISSION COMPLETED***

Week #490

Project: TACT-SX
Owner: Haimatsu
Type: Orbital Platform Freighter
Launch: 2103-01-02 @ 14:00:00
***MISSION COMPLETED***

Project: AUGE
Owner: Zentraler Deutscher Kern 
Type: Reconnaissance satellite
Launch: 2103-01-03 @ 13:00:00
***MISSION COMPLETED***

Week #491

Project: TACT-SX
Owner: Haimatsu
Type: Orbital Platform Freighter
Launch: 2103-01-09 @ 12:30:00
***ON HOLD***

Project: KARMAN
Owner: Atmos Surveyor
Type: Weather satellite
Launch: 2103-01-11 @ 13:00:00
***ON HOLD***

After ten years of impeccable operation the Omega Space Gun will shut down, but it took an apocalypse to be made redundant.
- Vic Auclair

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