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- Intent: To submit a small line of large scale industrial space infrastructure for the Mechanicum.
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- Manufacturer: Confederacy of Independent Systems | The Mechanicum
- Model: Manufactorum-class Orbital Forge
- Affiliation: (x) The Mechanicum, (x) Confederacy of Independent Systems
Production: Limited
- Material: Asteroid Fragments, Durasteel, Alusteel, Solarium Glasteel
- Classification: Industrial Station
- Length: 4000 meters
- Width: 2500 meters
- Height: 6000 meters
- Armament: None
- Defenses: Very High
Heavy Reinforced Molecular Shield Generator - Redundant Ray Shield Generator
- Reinforced Particle Shield Generator
[*]Hangar:
- Multiple Small and Medium Civilian Docking Bays
- Bulk/Heavy Freighter Mooring
[*]Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
[*]Speed Rating: Very Low
[*]Hyperdrive Class: Very Slow: 10
- Standard Sensor Array
- Escape Pods
- Hypermatter Annihilation Reactor Network
- HoloNet Transceiver
- Long-range Communications Array
- Reinforced Hull Plating
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Tractor Beams (x64)
Molecular Shields: Like most Mechanicum ships and structures, the Manufactorum-class is outfitted with cutting edge molecular shielding. These stations are extraordinarily well protected, with shield power rated well beyond the average civilian grade.
Manufacturing Plant: The Manufactorum-class was designed with a specialized purpose, to provide its crew with everything they might need to design and build anything a surface factory is capable of creating. Over time, certain orbital forges tend to become known for a particular artisanry, but every station is designed to be as modular as possible, so that its internals might be adjusted to accommodate a variety of common project types.
Bulk Storage: Orbital Forges fulfill a secondary function as major Mechanicum shipping and processing centers. It is not uncommon for enginseers to produce even large assembly runs of a tool or component without considering economic demand, and so these behemoths come equipped with plenty of cargo space to store unused tech.
- Defensive Stronghold: Equipped with the most potent shielding available on civilian markets, Mechanicum enginseers have optimized power distribution to further increase performance. Manufactorums are orbital redoubts, containing goods and secrets the machine cult considers too precious to risk falling into the wrong hands.
- Industrial Commune: Orbital Forges are massive, space-based industrial super factories. Conceived by a primarily spacefaring cooperative of droid and cyborg tech evangelists, there is a reverence to a Manufactorum's assembly work that most organics find reminiscent of religious ceremonies or spiritual gatherings.
- Singular Focus: The Manufactorum-class is a giant, spacefaring factory. This is its sole purpose, there are no weapons or powerful engines. It was not designed for any other function, so repurposing an orbital forge for a different task would take considerable overhaul.
- Vulnerable Foundation: Constructed upon the base of captured asteroids for ease of production, once the station's shields are penetrated, any concentrated fire on its rocky undercarriage would have catastrophic effects on a Manufactorum's structural integrity.
"Thus do we invoke the Machine God.
Thus do we make whole that which was sundered."
- Hymn of Reforging
From its earliest inception as a Void Kingdom among the Metal Lords, the Mechanicum has been devoted to large scale industrial manufacturing both for its own sake and as a demonstration of worthiness to its allies. While the earliest Forges on Denon were remote factory hives carved out of abandoned undercity real estate, as the Mechanicum's tender fleets grew so too did its need for orbital infrastructure.The Manufactorum-class was an early design, conceived of to limit the machine cult's impact on their organic neighbors. After the forced exodus of Void Kingdoms from the Core by civil war, all of the original orbital forges were left behind or destroyed during a period of interregnum that nearly consumed the Mechanicum itself.
Seeking sanctuary in Confederate space, those surviving Maker worshipers were granted significant orbital real estate in the more sparsely populated Zhar system. An abundance of moons orbiting the system's eponymous gas giant unsuitable for organic habitation have provided the Mechanicum with vast potential for surface expansion, but nevertheless new orbital forges were soon built and placed in orbit not only of Zhar, but several of its larger natural satellites.
