Ship Manufacturing

[Gamazson]

For a long time I have been attempting to figure out the origin of some of the freelancer ship classes. Some are very obvious but some others are not. This is an intresting little thing I wrote up on my way home from work tonight.

The commonly traded space frame is a light space craft that is only partially assembled. These space frames are based around a flexible and modular design that allows the recipient to completely customize their ship to suit the local climate and the recipient’s needs.

This breakthrough “Custom assembly required’ trend in space craft design was started by Kishiro Engineering’s “M series” during mid 600 AS. The drastically reduced shipping costs of new ships creating an unprecedented boom in privately owned spacecraft. Deep Space Engineering followed up soon after with rugged and reliable “AP” series that is still in common use by the Bounty Hunters Guild today.

The easy access to schematics and parts created a booming underground ship construction industry as well. Both DSE and Kishiro were forced to have Interspace Commerce petition for a change in house patent laws allowing both companies to harshly prosecute individuals who were making ships from scratch and completely bypassing both corporations. Almost overnight the schematics for the BW series of craft appeared on neural nets across Sirius. Believed to be a collaborative design effort by disgruntled engineers of many major manufacturers, these ‘Indy’ space craft have become popular among the richest criminal organizations in Sirius as well as preformance and tech savvy freelancers.

In 770 AS Kishiro retired the aging “M” series in favour of the lighter and easier to produce CTE series. Marketed specifically at the liberty market the CTE series far exceeded expectations and has become the most widely used space frame in Sirius. Although no longer in production the “M” series still lives on through the corsair pirates who have taken to manufacturing and expanding the line themselves.

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