JohnRoth wrote:Annachie wrote:Technodyne must have a sizable yard somewhere near Messa (near being relative when you add in hyperspace bridges etc)
Technodyne of Mesa (a subsidiary of Technodyne of Yildun) has, or rather had, a manufacturing facility at Mesa itself. In all likelihood it got blown up when Albrecht pressed the button. I believe it was one of the places where they were manufacturing Cataphracts. Or at least that's what the clues seem to say.
I previously posted about this in
Re: The logistics of SLN commerce raiding.
There are no Technodyne manufacturing facilities on Mesa. Just a corporate headquarters. At least according to previously published text. However, RFC has recently said in these forums that Technodyne has (or at least did have prior to the arrival of Henke and Tourville at Mesa) a manufacturing facility on Mesa, so a retcon may be forthcoming (assuming the fact what he said in the forums is in the next Honorverse book and it doesn't get edited out).
SLN Admiral Filareta thinking to himself at Tasmania before leaving for Manticore:
A Rising Thunder, Chapter 9 wrote:That was the final element which had him considering the sort of “paranoid conspiracy theories” with which Burrows had so little patience. The order to prepare to receive a massive influx of reinforcements had arrived on April the eleventh, with instructions to sortie no later than the twenty-fifth. Obviously, the reinforcements he was to expect had already been put into motion, and although the timetable had been tight, he’d felt reasonably confident of making the ordered departure date. Except that two days later he’d received orders to await a convoy of ammunition ships loaded with the latest Technodyne ship-to-ship and system defense missile variants. As a follow-up dispatch had explained, it would delay the operation by no more than forty-eight hours, assuming the missile colliers experienced no delays of their own.
He’d been surprised Technodyne was supplying anything, given the legal firestorm still swirling around the huge arms manufacturer. But then he’d examined the new order a bit more closely and discovered that the “Technodyne” shipment had actually originated in the Mesa System.
Which was odd, since there was no Technodyne manufacturing facility in that star system.
Technodyne did have a corporate headquarters on Mesa, so it might have made sense for shipping orders to originate there, but there was no way the missiles themselves should be coming from that star system. Not if they’d actually been built by Technodyne, at least. Unless, perhaps, they were coming out of ammunition stockpiles already amassed by someone—someone other than the Solarian League Navy—in the aforesaid system.
Italics are the author's, boldface and underlined text is my emphasis.