Armageddon Rock

**99841 Armageddon Rock**, nicknamed the **King of Terror** in the christian world, is an extrasolar asteroid sent by the Vanir from the Heliopause on a series of gravitational slingshots around Neptune, Jupiter and Mars to impact Earth and destroy it without the need to a formal declaration of war by an invasion that would have been impossible to kept secret even with the use of Colonial mercenaries.

NATO and FURA were able to divert the asteroid and kept it on the Earth-Moon Lagrangian Point 5 were MARS built the NNOS Stanford torus space station and the international fleet using materials processed from the asteroid. Yutani Corporation developped the technology to mine asteroids in the 1980s and were among the consortium that built the space infrastructure. Unfortunately, a small piece of the asteroid, about 370 m-long (between Tunguska Event and Apophis) detached and crashed in Alaska, causing a great flood.

## History

Launched from the Heliopause (about a 100 A.U. from Earth) around april 1988 by a Vanir black ops unit on direct command of Supreme Chamberlain Orlok Nospheratus, Armageddon Rock took about 11 years and 3 months to reach Earth using gravity slingshots around several planets (average speed of 151,791 kph) and threatened it with a Cretaceous level extinction event. A Japanese, NATO and FURA combined space mission, following a series of unconclusive unilateral attempts, was abled to diverged the asteroid without destroying it. During the manoeuver, a fragment -nicknamed **Armageddon Stone**- caused by a en earlier attempt at destroying it around Mars using a powerful space-based laser detached itself from the main core and crashed north of the Diomede Islands, causing a great flood in Siberia, Canada, Alaska and Japan.

Early NOAA (under USCG ships patrol boats) and Soviet nuclear icebreakers investigated the Impact Point and discovered an unknown super heavy element brought up by the meteorite and supposed to create an even bigger explosion if Terrans were to blow it up as originally envisionned by Nospheratus' plan. The presence of such unobtainium on contested US-USSR maritime border created a new string of tensions between the two countries after more than ten years of peace. Under pretense of humanitarian relief operations in the Bering Strait and Diomedes Island, Washington and Moscow deployed dozens of warships, most notably cutters and patrol boats fitted for archipelago manoeuvers, to secure the Impact Point. The sinoviet advance in icebraking technology and cold weather operations (both for deployed personnal in Arctic environnement and equipment durability) proved to be superior. White Berets, veterans of the Winter March, were deployed for the first time in polar zone and against USSR/FURA assets for the first time since 1987.

The main core of the asteroid was believed to harbour the same material, causing it to be worth exponentially more and provoking a new phase in the space race between Roscosmos, N.A.S.A. and J.A.X., and other State or non-State agencies, most notably the E.S.A. (under French technological leadership) and M.A.R.S.

By the mid-2000s, Yutani Corporation, the japanese rival of M.A.R.S., managed to create the Musokito remote-controlled digging vehicle, designed for asteroid mining for the J.A.X. who commanded sixty vehicles for 2014. The design of the Musokito allowed a fast and reliable asteroid mining technology.
By 25600 A.D., Armageddon Rock has been entirely striped and moved out by gravity manoeuver.

## Characteristics

Armageddon Rock is 13.13 km long and 4.6 teratons (4.6x10p12 tons).

Armageddon Stone was 1.6 km long.

Magnetic trail have been nailed on its surface to allowed magboots users to move with thrust assistance.

It's entire surface have been recovered by a lightweight hyperstrong nanomaterial patented by MARS and heat up with sun rays concentrated by mirrors to form a protective shell around the asteroid and prevent any piece to break apart.