Group · Illuminati Deluxe Edition (1999)
Orbital Mine Control Lasers
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Description
A Group representing a space-based orbital weapons platform, a science-fiction-tinged military asset that gives its controller major destructive leverage from orbit.
Conspiracy Narrative
Riffs on the real Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed 'Star Wars,' the Reagan-era proposal for a space-based missile-defense shield announced in 1983 -- a program conspiracy-minded critics and skeptical scientists alike argued was as much science fiction as real policy.