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| | '''Kupiga Simu''' is a [[military base]] located in the [[East African Protectorate]] on [[Earth]]. Operated by the [[United Nations Space Command]], the facility was one of the primary sites responsible for deep space communications relay on Earth.<ref name="universe">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/earth '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Earth'']</ref> |
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| |location=[[East African Protectorate]], [[Earth]]<ref name="universe">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/earth '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Earth'']</ref>
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| *[[11-B1 intercontinental ballistic missile|11-B1 ICBMs]]<ref name="h3standoff">'''[[Halo 3]]''', multiplayer map, ''[[Standoff]]''</ref>
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| *[[Advanced Short-Range Ground-to-Air Missile 10X|ASRGAM 10X missiles]]{{Ref/Reuse|h3standoff}}
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| '''Kupiga Simu''' is a [[military base]] located in the [[East African Protectorate]] on [[Earth]]. Operated by the [[United Nations Space Command]], the facility was one of the primary sites responsible for deep space communications relay on Earth.{{Ref/Reuse|universe}}
| | The Kupiga Simu communications facility specialized in transmitting signals to and from locations across the [[Sol system]]. However, the technological advances in [[superluminal communications]] that followed after the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]] have rendered the site functionally obsolete. The UNSC used Kupiga Simu as the basis of a [[War Games]] simulation, and now the facility is primarily used as a training environment for the [[SPARTAN-IV program]].<ref name="universe"/> |
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| The facility housed several [[missile silo]]s, containing [[11-B1 intercontinental ballistic missile]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|h3standoff}} The missiles were maintained by the [[UNSC Defense Force]].{{Ref/Reuse|image}} The base also contained several smaller [[Advanced Short-Range Ground-to-Air Missile 10X|ASRGAM 10X]] missiles.{{Ref/Reuse|h3standoff}} | | The facility housed several [[missile silo]]s, containing [[11-B1 intercontinental ballistic missile]]s.<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]''', multiplayer map, ''[[Standoff]]''</ref> While the missiles were obsolete, they were used during the [[Battle of Earth]] as a last resort.<ref name="ENC328">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 329'' (2011 edition)</ref> |
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| The Kupiga Simu communications facility specialized in transmitting signals to and from locations across the [[Sol system]]. However, the technological advances in [[superluminal communications]] that followed after the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]] have rendered the site functionally obsolete. The UNSC used Kupiga Simu as the basis of a [[War Games]] simulation, and now the facility is primarily used as a training environment for the [[SPARTAN-IV program]].{{Ref/Reuse|universe}}
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| While the facility's [[11-B1 intercontinental ballistic missile]]s had become obsolete, they were used during the [[Battle of Earth]] as a last resort against [[Covenant]] forces that evaded planetary [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC]] [[Orbital defense platform|defense weaponry]].<ref name="ENC328">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 329'' (2011 edition)</ref> | |
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| Kupiga Simu is [[Human languages|Swahili]] for "call", likely a reference to the facility's purpose as a communications relay. | | Kupiga Simu is [[Swahili]] for "call", likely a reference to the facility's purpose as a communications relay. |
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| [[Category:East African Protectorate]] | | [[Category:East African Protectorate]] |
| [[Category:UNSC military bases]] | | [[Category:UNSC military bases]] |
