>>23534719
>Endymion might possibly have been an accident. The system was installed there to melt ice rapidly into water for their water supply and overloaded during the battle, supposedly as an accident and also some suspected it was intentional it was never figured out one way or the other.
This is directly contradicted by the official glossary.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050416002445/http://www.gundamofficial.com/worlds/ce/background/glossary_technology.html#cyclops
>Cyclops System
>>A weapon of mass destruction
>>the Alliance used a Cyclops System installed beneath their supply base in the moon's Endymion Crater to destroy the base, taking with it both ZAFT and Alliance forces.