Orbital Bombardment

Orbital Bombardment is the newest (relatively speaking) and most effective type of artillery bombardment which can be employed by human military forces. Using various sizes and types of 'charges' being fire down upon any object from orbit, this type of artillery strike can effectively fulfill any possible need of a commander of ground-forces. Orbital Bombardments can range from fire meant to deal damage quite strictly to personnel with minimal damage to structures all the way up to explosions which deal enough kinetic energy to be in the same realms as thermonuclear weapons. Most of the time, these bombardments are carried out by ships rather specially designed for exactly this purpose. As a rule of thumb when dealing with these ships, the larger they are the more firepower they can lay down over a larger area at any given time. But, several times it has been shown that smaller ships can do more overall damage in aggregate at they perform precision 'hit and run' type engagements by flying into orbit, firing, and retreating quickly.

There is next to no need for ground-deployed artillery forces anymore, and the majority of the conventional bombing has been completely done away with save for a rare few precision strikes with Strike Craft.