Di Tron Heavy Industries

Di Tron Heavy Industries
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Corporation Profile
Founding Year2203[1]
Affiliation
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
(Terra III)[1]
LeadershipCEO
Product(s)
Division(s)Ioto Galactic Enterprises[2]
Manufacturing Plant(s)

Di Tron Heavy Industries was a major Japan-based corporation. Operating during the Terran Alliance, the Terran Hegemony, and later the Star League, its primary area of interest was construction.

Overview[edit]

Founded in 2203, The company's headquarters were located in Tokyo, Japan on Terra, with regional offices on New Earth, Sirius, and Zebebelgenubi. Despite its origins, the company had a very rocky relationship with the Draconis Combine, stemming from a dispute between the Toshimotos and Kuritas. Who started the disagreement is unknown, but it is believed one had offended the other sometime in the twenty-third century.[1]

Di Tron secured its first WarShip contract with the Terran Alliance, constructing the rugged and durable Dart light cruiser, a class that continued service through nearly 200 years and the waning years of the Star League.[3] Di Tron became interested in the Lyran Commonwealth when the Commonwealth first began looking into domestic WarShip production in 2371; as a result of the combination of extensive financial chicanery on the part of experienced Lyran businessmen and the knowledge and know-how in WarShip construction held by Di Tron, a new company—Ioto Galactic Enterprises—was created in the Commonwealth, carefully avoiding the legal constraints around sale of restricted Terran Hegemony technologies, and in 2375 the first Commonwealth-class cruisers emerged from the Port Sydney Naval Shipyards.[4] During the Hegemony era, Di Tron had a hold of a large share of the construction market, with subsidiaries focused on urban and military construction. The company built the Nightwing surveillance corvette throughout the Age of War Era for the Hegemony,[5] and with the creation of the Star League, the company diversified, with Di Tron Shipbuilders pumping out quality craft from its ten shipyards.

Manufacturing[edit]

The only known Di Tron heavy Industries manufacturing center to survive the first three Succession Wars was the Port Sydney Naval Shipyards in orbit above Alarion in the Lyran Commonwealth,[6] which became part of Ioto Galactic Enterprises when the rest of the company was destroyed.[1] Di Tron's shipyards in the New Earth, Sirius, and Zebebelgenubi systems were destroyed during the First Succession War.[1][7]

Unknown[edit]

Components produced on Unknown:
Component Type
DropShips
Dictator-class DropShip[1] DropShip
Titan-class DropShip[1] DropShip
Warships
Aegis-class Heavy Cruiser[1] WarShip
Dart-class Light Cruiser[4][3] WarShip
Nightwing-class Surveillance Corvette[8] WarShip

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 The Star League, p. 162: "Top Ten Hegemony Companies - [Di Tron Heavy Industries]"
  2. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 143: "Ioto Galactic Enterprises (IotoGal)"
  3. 3.0 3.1 Technical Readout: 3057 Revised, p. 212: "Dart WarShip Profile"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Field Report 2765: LCAF, pp. 23–24: "Commonwealth (Light Cruiser)"
  5. Technical Readout: 3057 Revised, p. 184: "Nightwing Profile"
  6. Handbook: House Steiner, pp. 73–74: "Alarion"
  7. First Succession War, p. 125: "Shipbuilding Casualties of the First Succession War"
  8. Technical Readout: 3057 Revised, pp. 184–185: "Nightwing"

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