colony drop

A fictional space combat strategy first depicted in the Gundam series.

It consists of dropping an O'Neill Cylinder in a specific area for hostile military purposes and massive destruction.

Specific examples include:

• Operation British - the dropping of Island Iffish on Australia (Mobile Suit Gundam)
• A holographic recreation of this scene with a very different outcome (Gundam Build Fighters Try)
• Operation Stardust - the dropping of a colony on North America (Gundam 0083)
• Operation Apollo - the attempted dropping of a colony onto the moon (Zeta Gundam)
• The dropping of a colony on the city of Dublin (Gundam ZZ)
• The mass drop of colonies that ended the 7th Space War in a global apocalypse (After War Gundam X)