Post by shadowstrike on Nov 22, 2016 16:41:48 GMT
Overview
The FlashTek Forge Yards, are the largest Cybertronian owned ship construction yard in the galaxy. Created for the express purpose of building ships that are too large for atmospheric enviornments 'the forge' as it is widely known is one of the few places in the galaxy capable of making Dreadnought class ships. As a result of the mass amount of money and materials funded into the yards it also comes equipped with one of the strongest anti-space defences in the solar system, to protect itself from pirate attacks. The effectiveness of its defences only losing out against full sized planets such as Cybertron and it's planetary defence grid.
Due to the requirements necessary to house and build Dreadnought class ships, the Forge Yard has been specially built for the task. As a result it is made up of a single central hub the size of a space station with numerous support struts jutting out from its origins, while some spread out towards support hubs of various sizes others spread out into open space. In the case of the support hubs these are often used to seperate the different classification of ships with Dreadnoughts, Carriers and Battlecruisers often receiving their own hubs. The rest of the support struts heading out into space are then used to dock the constructs while the lack of an enclosed space ensures the build crews are not restricted when building outwards.
History
The Creation of the Forge Yards where first considered during the first decade of the age of transition, as the organisation FlashTek continuously found their ability to create higher classifications of warships restricted due to the constraints of building planetside. At the time though the idea was scrapped due to the dangers of building away from the planet during a time of relative instability offworld as pirate attacks where rampant and the fear of a Quintesson counterattack still existed. It wouldn't then be till another two hundred and twenty years that the idea was given the go ahead after the construction of the Cybertron Defence Force's primary space command centre. The increased security making the risk low enough that the Forge Yards where built in a few minutes of FTL drive from the command centre.
In a few years the Yards would be responsible for the creation of more than a hundred ships, and though most of them where between Light Freighter to Frigate size more than a handful of large sized cruisers and freighters where also created. It wouldn't be till over seven hundred years later however that the Forge Yards became FlashTek's primary site for ship construction, having been originally set in Kaon which even after the change continued to be involved in the process though instead in parts construction, rather than finalising the builds. By this point then the Forge had began producing Battlecruiser/Battleship class ships. An accomplishment which gained itself the interest of the Cybertron Defence Force which began sourcing FlashTek as its primary contractor.
A move which would lead to the creation of FlashTek's first Carrier just fifty years before the beginning of the Second Golden Age of Cybertron. Which was followed a hundred years into the Golden Age by the creation of the first Dreadnought, and then its three brethren.
The FlashTek Forge Yards, are the largest Cybertronian owned ship construction yard in the galaxy. Created for the express purpose of building ships that are too large for atmospheric enviornments 'the forge' as it is widely known is one of the few places in the galaxy capable of making Dreadnought class ships. As a result of the mass amount of money and materials funded into the yards it also comes equipped with one of the strongest anti-space defences in the solar system, to protect itself from pirate attacks. The effectiveness of its defences only losing out against full sized planets such as Cybertron and it's planetary defence grid.
Due to the requirements necessary to house and build Dreadnought class ships, the Forge Yard has been specially built for the task. As a result it is made up of a single central hub the size of a space station with numerous support struts jutting out from its origins, while some spread out towards support hubs of various sizes others spread out into open space. In the case of the support hubs these are often used to seperate the different classification of ships with Dreadnoughts, Carriers and Battlecruisers often receiving their own hubs. The rest of the support struts heading out into space are then used to dock the constructs while the lack of an enclosed space ensures the build crews are not restricted when building outwards.
History
The Creation of the Forge Yards where first considered during the first decade of the age of transition, as the organisation FlashTek continuously found their ability to create higher classifications of warships restricted due to the constraints of building planetside. At the time though the idea was scrapped due to the dangers of building away from the planet during a time of relative instability offworld as pirate attacks where rampant and the fear of a Quintesson counterattack still existed. It wouldn't then be till another two hundred and twenty years that the idea was given the go ahead after the construction of the Cybertron Defence Force's primary space command centre. The increased security making the risk low enough that the Forge Yards where built in a few minutes of FTL drive from the command centre.
In a few years the Yards would be responsible for the creation of more than a hundred ships, and though most of them where between Light Freighter to Frigate size more than a handful of large sized cruisers and freighters where also created. It wouldn't be till over seven hundred years later however that the Forge Yards became FlashTek's primary site for ship construction, having been originally set in Kaon which even after the change continued to be involved in the process though instead in parts construction, rather than finalising the builds. By this point then the Forge had began producing Battlecruiser/Battleship class ships. An accomplishment which gained itself the interest of the Cybertron Defence Force which began sourcing FlashTek as its primary contractor.
A move which would lead to the creation of FlashTek's first Carrier just fifty years before the beginning of the Second Golden Age of Cybertron. Which was followed a hundred years into the Golden Age by the creation of the first Dreadnought, and then its three brethren.