Also known as: コロニー落とし
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)