Orbital bombardment

Orbital bombardment was a military tactic that consisted of bombing a celestial body from its orbit.
== Daleks ==
Orbital bombardment was a preferred tactic of the Dalek Fleet.
During the 2323 Dalek invasion of Earth, the Golden Emperor ordered his fleet to encircle the Earth in high orbit before opening fire. (COMIC: )
During their invasion of Islos, the Dalek Restoration Empire bombed the planet from orbit after the invading fleet had destroyed the orbiting weapons platforms. (WC: )
After the Sontaran temporal defences around Rovidia had been disabled, the Dalek Fleet began bombarding the planet, increasing the intensity of the barrage when the Dalek Time Strategist was rescued. (AUDIO: )
At the end of the Last Great Time War, at the Fall of Gallifrey, the Dalek Fleet broke through the defences surrounding Gallifrey and began an orbital bombardment to destroy the Time Lord homeworld. (PROSE: ) When multiple incarnations of the Doctor shifted the planet into a pocket universe, the fleet destroyed itself in its own massive crossfire (TV: ) in what Dalek Caan identified as the "old circular firing-squad gag". (PROSE: ) Whilst the relocation of Gallifrey took almost a day to complete, the Daleks perceived it as happening instantaneously as they were active in a slower gradient of time. (PROSE: )
During the Battle of the Game Station, the Dalek fleet bombarded the Earth with such ferocity that the planet's continents were warped. (TV: )
After Oswin Oswald deactivated the force field protecting the Dalek Asylum, the Parliament of the Daleks launched missiles which destroyed the planet. (TV: )
When the Eleventh Doctor decoded the Question, he feared that the orbiting fleets would fire on Trenzalore from orbit to stop the return of the Time Lords. (TV: ) Following the New Dalek Paradigm's conquest of the Papal Mainframe, the Supreme Dalek ordered the Dalek fleet to commence an orbital bombardment of Trenzalore until its protective force field shattered. (PROSE: )
== Other instances ==
When the Taalyens discovered Keska, they launched an orbital bombardment to try and render the Keskans extinct before the War Doctor reconfigured the sky transmitters into a planetary shield. (AUDIO: )
In an auction for the Ninth Doctor's memories, the Cybermen partially upgraded Addison Delamar, using her to execute the other representatives. Observing the death of General Onarr, Major Traneer of the Harrigain ordered a carpet bombing of Nomicae, even after the Cybermen had been destroyed, withdrawing only when the Doctor shared the overwhelming grief he felt from the Time War. (COMIC: )
In its invasion of Delta IV, the Borg-Cyberman Alliance opened with an orbital bombardment, a tactic that the Deltans noted was more aggressive than had come to be expected from the Borg. (COMIC: )
== Alternate timelines ==
In an alternate timeline created by a temporal collision of the First and Second Doctor's TARDISes, the Black Dalek Leader ordered a brief orbital bombardment to be conducted on Urbinia when it detected that the people were attempting to evacuate the planet. (AUDIO: )
In the Warrior's universe, the Warrior witnessed the Daleks bombard a planet during the Time War. The sight caused the Warrior to swear that he would destroy the Dalek race. (WC: )
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