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The B.O.M.B., or Ballistic Orbital Missile Base, was a series of Ballistic Missile Sattelites first created by the United Nations during the Interplanetary Wars. BOMB's were designated by number, and each could hold an estimated 42 MIRV's worth of Nuclear Warheads, equipped with living quarters onboard for operators of the station. Only 17 were commissioned during the War however, of which three suffered systems failures before becoming fully online. In the years following the Interplanetary Wars the 14 remaining BOMB units were successfully retrieved and returned to storage facilities on Earth, and all units were decommissioned by the newly formed U.N.S.C. subsequently.

In the 2550's the UNSC had begun improving upon the BOMB designs, and an experimental BOMB-018 was launched and tested successfully in the years following the Human-Covenant War. The UNSC's Department of Military Logistics has estimated that at least 50 fully functioning BOMB units will be launched into the orbits of UNSC-controlled planets in the Sol System by two years' time, with many more to follow in Colonial orbits.