Talk:Damocles/@comment-44997843-20200804215804/@comment-46344077-20200804221246

Short answer: no in eleven languages.

Longer answer: the closest analog to Damocles our world could create is some type of space station armed with nukes; essentially an orbital missile silo. Technically feasible, meaning it's within our technology abilities to build. What it would also be is ludicrously expensive and utterly wasteful in light of more sensible options (IE submarines). Such a station would have good to strong first strike capabilities but no ability to hide, and one good ICBM or even specially built rocket (China is experimenting with a jet launched anti-satellite missile) would turn that expensive sky fortress into so much scrap. Without antigravity technology or energy shields, there's no point in building such a thing like Damocles, and even if you did, why? There has to be cheaper options available; even those luxury liner airships would be more cost effective.