Rakhmamort wrote:Manticore, if I remember correctly, is planning to build something like the previous Hephaestus albeit this one designed to grow from the very start.
Grayson 'prefers' stand alone shipyards. Easier to set up/build but a bit less efficient. Considering the attack that took out their old shipbuilding capacities, I think Grayson would stick to the stand alone yards since it is going to be more difficult to take out a lot of scattered singletons compared to one big shipyard complex. I suppose they'd probably equip the new stand alone shipyards of theirs with some sort of propulsion so it can change it's position from time to time to make it harder to take them out.
It's not that they prefered dispersed ship yards. It's that at the time it was easier to build quickly even if it required them to through far more manpower at to work realativly but still less efficently then their Manticoran equivalents. Grayson prefers anything that maximises their manpower. They were just trapped in that they couldn't justify the cost of rebuilding their whole industrial complex to a automated Manticoran style yard when they had something that mostly worked. Oyster Bay changes that.
I'm also willing to bet that their old shipbuilding infrastructure is still there and in use. They probably sold it off to some civilian company. Probably one that was making minor things like intra sytem runabouts or mining ships or other miscillaneous civilian orientated space born infrastructure(i.e. replacement parts for the orbital farms). If this is so then it was also likely upgraded to modern civilian standards. I doubt it was expanded much though, but I could be wrong. As all new construction was going up in BlackBird.
Which means that coupled with their own repair ships they should have a small neculeous of spacers and equipment to rebuild. Plus we know from Honor Amoung Enemies that their technical training school was ground based (White Haven visited it well on planet if I recall corectly).
We do know that all the old pre alliance Defence forts were scraped. However there were defensce platforms of a modern stripe protecting Grayson, and thats all still there.