ODIN Space Station

The ODIN (Orbital Defense Initiative) Space Station is an orbital kinetic bombardment weapons platform that appears in Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Design
The station is armed with a battery of sophisticated kinetic projecticle launchers that can launch tungsten rods with pin-point precision anywhere around the world. The tungsten rods were 6.1 by 0.3m and had the equivalent of a small tactical nuclear warhead without the fear of radiation or nuclear fallout, reaching speeds at about Mach 10 and reaching its target in minutes. The weapons platform is constantly manned by crews rotating every three months to avoid muscle atrophy, skeletal deterioration, and combat readiness should ODIN ever be need.

History
On July 10th, 2017, as the crew was completing a systems test of the weapons platform, the Daedalus shuttle arrived to rotate the crews back to Earth. As Specialists Kyra Mosley and Baker return to the station, a squad of Federation soldiers emerge from the shuttle and kill the crew. The Federation took control of the station and began targeting American cities and firing the tungsten rods. The first payload targets Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Houston, and Miami with an estimated 27 million casualties. NASA scuttles the ODIN Space Station and activates the station's self-destruct system. This aborted the launch of ODIN's third and fourth payloads, presumably saving dozens of cities. However, the second payload of rods had already targeted San Francisco, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, and Washington D.C. and were preparing to launch. Accepting their fate, Mosley and Baker destablize its orbit as it falls back to Earth, sacrificing themselves in the process as they burn up re-entering the atmosphere. However, remnants of the ODIN Space Station crash in No Man's Land which would not be discovered by the U.S. government until 2027.

The resulting impacts from the rods devastated several regions across the United States, notably Southern California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Nevada, Louisiana, and Florida. As the Federation invaded, attempts by the U.S. government to bring aid to these regions was swept aside. A band of craters and destroyed cities along the southern U.S. is now collectively known as "No-Man's Land". Later, the Federation built a new orbital kinetic bombardment weapon platform, called LOKI, based on salvaged components of the ODIN Space Station.

Multiplayer
Tungsten rods appear in Multiplayer as the K.E.M. Strike, which can be obtained through a Field Order or through a 25 gunstreak, similar to the M.O.A.B from Modern Warfare 3. The K.E.M. Strike is very similar to the M.O.A.B. from the Modern Warfare 3, but when called in, it can change the terrain of some maps, notably Strikezone.

The Odin satellite itself also appears in the Support Strike Package in multiplayer as a 16 pointstreak.

List of U.S. Cities targeted

 * Atlanta, Georgia (destroyed)
 * Austin, Texas (destroyed)
 * Baltimore, Maryland
 * Boston, Massachusetts
 * Charlotte, North Carolina
 * Chicago, Illinois
 * Columbus, Ohio
 * Dallas, Texas (destroyed)
 * Denver, Colorado (destroyed)
 * Detroit, Michigan
 * El Paso, Texas (destroyed)
 * Fort Worth, Texas (destroyed)
 * Houston, Texas (destroyed)
 * Indianapolis, Indiana
 * Jacksonville, Florida (destroyed)
 * Kansas City, Kansas
 * Kansas City, Missouri
 * Las Vegas, Nevada (destroyed)
 * Lexington, Kentucky
 * Los Angeles, California (partially destroyed)
 * Louisville, Kentucky
 * Memphis, Tennessee
 * Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 * Miami, Florida (destroyed)
 * Nashville, Tennessee
 * New Orleans, Louisiana (destroyed)
 * New York City, New York
 * Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (destroyed)
 * Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * Phoenix, Arizona (destroyed)
 * Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * Portland, Oregon
 * Providence, Rhode Island
 * San Antonio, Texas (destroyed)
 * San Diego, California (destroyed)
 * San Francisco, California (destroyed)
 * Seattle, Washington
 * Washington D.C.

Trivia

 * ODIN, along with its Federation counterpart LOKI, are each named after a Norse God, Odin and Loki, respectively.