Shipyards of Torfan
From FABT
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Location: |
In orbit over Torfan / Riflar / Uifa'ar Nebula / Milky Way Galaxy |
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Commissioned: |
September 15, 1107 CE |
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Destroyed: |
March 3, 2177 CE |
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Length: |
912,000km (all stations) |
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Diameter: |
11km |
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Population: |
689,000 approx. |
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Defenses: |
8 Light point-defense guns per station |
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Type: |
Shipyard/Drydock |
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Power: |
4 eezo cores |
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The Shipyards of Torfan were a series of orbital drydocks and shipyards that were commissioned and used by the Batarian Liberation Navy, and later the Batarian Hegemony Navy, for the repairs, construction, commissioning and decomissioning of its vessels that was located in orbit over Torfan. In the decades following the first batarian settlement of Torfan, it was becoming evident that the Batarian People's Republic wanted Torfan as their primary military staging base, and had gone to great lengths to fortify the planet and establish fortifications to protect it. The Shipyards of Torfan were one of the first steps made in establishing this, with the Shipyards of Torfan intended to become the new home of terrifying and mighty developments in batarian naval technology, and indeed it would produce many powerful warships after its completion in 1107 CE. The shipyards saw the rise of a powerful new batarian navy, one that could even go toe-to-toe with the Turian Hierarchy in its prime. However, after the losses suffered in the Quarian-Batarian War, and the economic downturn that the regime-change caused after the First Batarian Civil War, funding for the military became tight, leading to the shipyards becoming underused and poorly maintained, although still being used by the Hegemony Navy.
The Shipyards of Torfan were spurred into use again many decades later, and pumped out a steady stream of batarian warships, although nowhere near to the degree that the Batarian Golden Age had enjoyed. They were used to refuel and resupply ships of the Hegemony Slaver Corps as well, and during the Skyllian Blitz, it found itself overwhelmed by the amount of ships it needed to supply and rearm, lacking the logistics to handle the surplus. The shipyards were among the first military targets designated by the Systems Alliance during their invasion of the Riflar system in March of 2177 CE, and Battlegroup Black made short work of the fleetyards, destroying them with a series of well placed MAC rounds that displaced the gravitational stability of the facility and caused vibrations and impact shock to tear the stations apart. Due to the abandonment of Torfan after the war, the shipyards were never rebuilt, with the Hegemony Navy's main base for construction being redesignated to the Shipyards of Khar'Shan. For decades, the debris of the former shipyards would slowly make their way into Torfan's orbit, until only a few scant pieces of debris remained, the last of it being removed when the Third Batarian Republic resettled the planet following the Dominion Civil War.