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|base = Cairo Orbital Defense Platform

|image = [[File:CairoStationCallouts.jpg|300px]]

|location = Geosynchronous orbit over the City [[wikipedia:Cairo|Cairo]]

|built =

|destroyed =

|purpose = Orbital Defense

|usage =

|defense =

|armament = Mark V "Super" [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC]] Gun

|equipment =

|vehicles = *[[Bumblebee escape pod|Bumblebee]] Life Pods

*[[D77-TC Pelican|D77-TC ''Pelican'' Dropship]]

*[[GA-TL1 Longsword|C709 ''Longsword''-class Interceptor]]

|soldier(s) = [[Master Gunnery Sergeant (Armory)|The Armorer]], [[John-117]], [[Avery Junior Johnson|Sergeant Johnson]], [[Miranda Keyes]], [[Terrence Hood|Fleet Admiral Terrance Hood]], [[Banks|Sergeant Banks]].

|commander(s) = *[[Fleet Admiral]] [[Terrence Hood|Sir Terrence Hood]]

|era(s) = Human-Covenant War

|notable = Only surviving station in its Battle Cluster

|affiliation = [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Naval]] [[UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet]]

'''''Cairo Station''''', [[Hull classification symbol|Hull Classification Symbol]] '''ODA-142''', is an [[Orbital defense platform|Orbital Defense Platform]] in [[geosynchronous orbit]] about 35,900 kilometers above [[Earth]], over the [[Egypt]]ian city of [[Cairo (city)|Cairo]], hence the station's name. It is in the same battle cluster as ''[[Athens Station]]'' and ''[[Malta Station]]'' so it seems to be mainly guarding the area above the Mediterranean. It is commanded by [[Fleet Admiral]] [[Terrence Hood|Sir Terrence Hood]].

[[File:Hood.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Lord Hood, Sgt Johnson and Master Chief on Cairo station]]

The Cairo Station was assembled and put in to orbit at some point before 2552. In [[2552]], [[John-117]] received the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|MJOLNIR Mark VI armor]] in the ''Cairo'' armory prior to attending an awards ceremony on the station's command center. The ceremony was interrupted by the [[Battle of Earth]] when thirteen Covenant [[CCS-class battlecruiser|CCS-class Battlecruisers]] and two [[Covenant assault carrier|Assault Carriers]] attacked [[Earth]]. They tried to break through the ''Cairo'''s battle cluster by sending boarding craft to plant bombs on the stations to destroy them. [[Terrence Hood|Fleet Admiral Hood]] commanded the UNSC forces from the station during the attack. Unlike the ''[[Athens Station|Athens]]'' and the ''[[Malta Station|Malta]]'', ''Cairo'' survived the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] attempt to detonate a [[Antimatter charge|Covenant Bomb]] on board. In an ironic twist, the bomb was located and used by [[John-117]] to destroy a Covenant assault carrier.  

When SPARTAN-117 returned later to [[Earth]], ''Cairo'' was still intact, but appeared damaged from the battle. Lord Hood was still on board and in command of the escalating [[Battle of Earth]].<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]''', ''[[The Great Journey (Level)#Fourth_Cinematic|The Great Journey]]''</ref> The ''Cairo'', the other MAC platforms, and three [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[fleet]]s held firm against [[Battle of Earth|the onslaught of the Covenant Loyalist forces]]. It was last seen in the end of ''Halo 2'' where Lord Terrence Hood asks the Master Chief "You mind telling me what you're doing on that ship?"

''Cairo'' could have survived the Battle of Earth and could have fired on certain areas where the Covenant had a foothold on the planet, assuming the fusion generator powering it had not been destroyed in the battle but in results the Super MAC was offline during the heavy damage on controls.

==The Station==

[[File:Macstationcairolarge1ki.jpg|thumb|Cairo Station right before the [[Battle of Earth]]]]

{{Quote|When I shipped out for Basic, the orbital defense grid was all theory and politics. Now look! The Cairo is just one of three hundred geosync platforms. That [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC]] gun can put a round clean through a Covenant capital ship.|[[Avery Junior Johnson|Sergeant Johnson]]}}

Cairo Station's main purpose is as a defensive station for Earth. Its main armament is a Mark V "Super" [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC]] gun, capable of causing severe damage to even a shielded [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] Capital Ship with a single hit.<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]''', ''[[The Armory|The Armory (Level)]]'', cutscene</ref> However, it does not seem to have any kind of point defense [[weapons]], as enemy boarding craft were able to attack the station unhindered. But it could have been originally planned that some of the docked and/or space-borne ships were to defend it from boarding craft. While there is an apparent lack of point-defense systems, an AI such as [[Cortana]] can operate the station's MAC gun. It runs on power transmitted from a [[orbital defense generator|planetside generator]], much like the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor|Type III prototype exoskeletons]].

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==Internal==

Internally, it is very similar to [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] ships with set out decks and specialized rooms. Like all United Nations Space Command space constructs it featured regular bulkheads for protection against hull breaches but seemed especially adept for fending off boarding parties. It had large stockpiles of [[Combat barrier|Combat Barriers]], large supplies of [[M247 General Purpose Machine Gun|M247 GPMGs]], security booths providing defense points and regular weapons lockers in the walls containing [[BR55 Battle Rifle|Battle Rifles]] and [[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun|SMGs]]. It is possible that these weapons are a substitute for point defenses. These extra defenses against boarding parties are an obvious precaution, as the ODPs like the Cairo would be large targets for Covenant forces.

 

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*If you walk into the loading arm of the MAC gun in the Firing Control Center in the level "Cairo Station", you will be crushed and sometimes fall down into the cutscene hangar, where the Chief jumps out with the Covenant bomb. However, if you do this too many times, you might be sent back to the previous checkpoint.

*Despite being called ''Cairo'' Station, the platform is located more towards central Africa than Cairo, much like the misplacement of Athens and Malta.

*Athens, Malta and Cairo were all cities involved in the 1985 hijacking of [[Wikipedia:EgyptAir Flight 648|EgyptAir Flight 648]], which was en route to Cairo from Athens and forced to land in Malta.

*Cairo Station's serial number ODA-142 contains a possible [[list of "seven" references in Halo|7]] reference (1 + 4 + 2 = '''7''').

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File:Cairogarden.jpg|A panoramic view of [[Commons B-01]].

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