BBP Industries
BBP Industries | |
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Corporation Profile | |
Affiliation | Draconis Combine |
Headquarters | Imperial City (Luthien IV)[1] |
Leadership | CEO |
Product(s) | |
Parent Corporation | Luthien Armor Works[2] |
Manufacturing Plant(s) | Mercante (New Samarkand)[3] |
BBP Industries was a Draconis Combine DropShip manufacturer.
Overview[edit]
For many years, BBP Industries was the only manufacturer of 'Mech-carrying DropShips in the Draconis Combine.[4] They lost this unique status when Matabushi Incorporated started producing Overlord- and Union-class DropShips.[5]
During the Clan Invasion time period, they expanded their offerings to include several other DropShips and Space Stations. BBP Industries was a division of Luthien Armor Works by 3067.[2]
During the Jihad, the Luthien factory suffered greatly losing 95% of its workforce and capital. In 3079, after several years of rebuilding, the factory was only at 5% of its pre-Jihad output.[6] The Combine continued to repair the BBP Industries facilities on Luthien, and by mid-3081 it was estimated that the factories were within three months of being back to full production capacity.[7]
BBP Industries opened an additional facility in the New Samarkand system and it was speculated before its completion that the site was actually to be a repair and refit yard instead of a production plant.[3] The Combine had managed to keep the purpose of the site a mystery to external observes at least as late as mid-3081.[8]
Manufacturing[edit]
BBP Industries has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
Luthien[edit]
Components produced on Luthien:[1][4][2][9] | |
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Component | Type |
Small Craft | |
K-1 DropShuttle[citation needed] | Small Craft |
DropShips | |
Excalibur[1][4][9] | DropShip |
Intruder[4][2] | DropShip |
Nekohono'o[1][2] | DropShip |
Okinawa[1][2][10] | DropShip |
Rose (Bara no Ryu)[1][2] | DropShip |
Triumph[4][2][9] | DropShip |
Space Station | |
BattleSat[2][11] | Space Stations |
Interplanetary Drive - Small Craft | |
Pratt & Whitney 400 | [citation needed] |
Interplanetary Drive - DropShips | |
Delano 1070 | Triumph[4] |
GE 2080 | Excalibur[4] |
GE 2080-II | [citation needed] |
Movem-XL Drive | Intruder[4] |
? (for Okinawa) | [citation needed] |
New Samarkand[edit]
Components produced on New Samarkand:[12] | |
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Component | Type |
DropShip | |
Nekohono'o HQ[12] | DropShip |
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 11: "BBP Industries (Projected)"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Handbook: House Kurita, p. 160: "Luthien Armor Works"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 28: "BBP Industries (Projected)"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Objective Raids, p. 70: "Produced BBP Industries Components"
- ↑ Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 7: "Matabushi, Inc"
- ↑ Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 4: "State of the Industry at a Glance (Dec 3079)"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 89: "The Industrial State of the Draconis Combine"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 89: "New Samarkand Military District"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 DropShips and JumpShips: ComStar Intelligence Summary, p. 15: "JumpShip and DropShip Manufacturers"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3057 Revised, p. 40: "Okinawa Ship Profile"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3057, p. 205: "BattleSat Profile"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Experimental Technical Readout: Kurita, p. 13: "Produced Experimental Nekohono'o Ship variant"