Heaven’s Fist is the Earth Federation’s orbital bombardment superweapon, a type-4 colony-sized, cylindrical shaped, 19.79 miles in length, 6.25 miles in diameter. It follows a variable orbit around earth to avoid detection, but is capable of leaving its orbital path to relocate when a mission order stipulates. The basics behind the concept of the weapon is that an empty shell of an orbiting space colony is converted into a large laser for the purpose of either defense or attack.
It houses thousands of Earth Federation soldiers and civilians that are employed to assist in the overall operation.
Lost Century:
First deployment
As of date, there was no official record of when the orbital bombardment weapon was actually first deployed, but Knight hinted it (as quoted in Episode 5 - Clash)
Knight told Amber Leigh La Flaga and Raba Lue
“Highly plausible, I should say. Probably you have heard of the countless conspiracy theories during the recent years, especially the one about the interstellar fleet bound for the planet Jupiter that seemingly vanished without probable cause, right? Purportedly there were nine deep space-fitted Vesalius-class vessels in that fleet,” Knight answered. “A sweep of an energy beam with that kind of caliber can easily accomplish that.”