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==History==

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.  

''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.

{{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]]}}

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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.

==Trivia==

*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.

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

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