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BBP Industries

BBP Industries
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Corporation Profile
AffiliationDraconis Combine
HeadquartersImperial City
(Luthien IV)[1]
LeadershipCEO
Product(s)
Parent CorporationLuthien 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]
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]
Component Type
DropShip
Nekohono'o HQ[12] DropShip

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 11: "BBP Industries (Projected)"
  2. 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. 3.0 3.1 Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 28: "BBP Industries (Projected)"
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Objective Raids, p. 70: "Produced BBP Industries Components"
  5. Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 7: "Matabushi, Inc"
  6. Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 4: "State of the Industry at a Glance (Dec 3079)"
  7. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 89: "The Industrial State of the Draconis Combine"
  8. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 89: "New Samarkand Military District"
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 DropShips and JumpShips: ComStar Intelligence Summary, p. 15: "JumpShip and DropShip Manufacturers"
  10. Technical Readout: 3057 Revised, p. 40: "Okinawa Ship Profile"
  11. Technical Readout: 3057, p. 205: "BattleSat Profile"
  12. 12.0 12.1 Experimental Technical Readout: Kurita, p. 13: "Produced Experimental Nekohono'o Ship variant"

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