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Author: Arivne

Mar 16th 2013 at 11:08:17 PM

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/MenInBlack''. After the Bug kills the Arquilian prince and steals the Galaxy, an Arquillian battle cruiser enters orbit around the Earth. It sends an ultimatum: deliver the Galaxy or it will destroy the Earth. It then fires a warning shot at the North Pole to make it clear that it means it.

Would it be all right to expand this to orbiting space stations?

If so:

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* RobertHeinlein
** ''Literature/BetweenPlanets''. The Federation has a large space station in orbit around Earth called Circum-Terra. It's their main guided-missile control station, and can fire missiles at any city on Earth. It has between 200 and 1,000 fission bomb rockets and components for the manufacture of fusion bombs.

[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* ''TabletopGame/StarFleetBattles''
** After the Klingons invaded and conquered the Hydrans, they put space stations in orbit around the Hydran planets which could destroy the Hydrans on the surface if they revolted. Unfortunately they didn't provide as much protection against attack from space as they did against attack from the ground, and the Hydrans were eventually able to capture them.