And so our intrepid heros took it outside, so far outside in fact that they got on a shuttle headed for the shipyards central hub.
The hub is a large disk with what appears to be three decks. The bottom and top decks are devoted to the maintenance and running of the hub and off limits to the public. The middle deck contains an observation deck circling the entire hub with extension ports linking the hub up to the actual yards. The central area of the hub is devoted to administration offices except for the help center and a restaurant that looks classy but is full of casually dressed dockworkers. The new Ragno-gov battleship is docked at the 'Ships of Rose' yards and there is a small crowd at the observation window taking a look at it. Apart from the crowd the station is almost empty with the occasional shift of workers heading to or from the shuttle dock.
There is a map of the hub in front of the help center:
A small amount of inconsequential talking to the help centre staff reveals the specializations of each of the yards:
Jacobs and Melcorp are small companies that share a yard. They mostly build commissions, repairs and modifications but they do have some existing ships that were ordered but never picked up.
Arkan's foundry is pretty much what the barkeep said it is. They build industrial ships like those found in mining and hauling industries but also create specialty ships for large companies.
Ships Of Rose was the first and largest ship production company on the planet and do a majority of their work for the government, typically creating military ships. Apart from warships they produce a range of small high speed ships that are usually used by couriers and stellar surveyors.
Mao-Fa Unlimited is the local branch of a large ship production and design company. They have a very large range of mid to low range ships for almost any purpose.
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