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| image = Kresters Ship Construction.jpg
 
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| affiliation = [[Terran Hegemony]]
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| headquarters = Station Alpha<br>([[Terra III]])<ref name=SLp165>''The Star League'', p. 165: "Top Ten Hegemony Companies - [Krester's Ship Construction]"</ref>
 
 
| leadership = [[CEO of Krester's Ship Construction|CEO]]
 
| leadership = [[CEO of Krester's Ship Construction|CEO]]
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| products = [[DropShip]]s<br>[[WarShip]]s
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| Division = [[Terra]]<br>[[Keid]]<br>[[Terra Firma]]<br>[[Thorin]]<br>[[Yorii]]
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'''Krester's Ship Construction''' was one of the largest shipbuilding companies of the [[Star League]].  At its height, it operated more than thirty shipyards, with six located outside the [[Terran Hegemony]], and was a major manufacturer for the [[Star League Defense Force]].<ref name=SLp165/>
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'''Krester's Ship Construction''' was one of the largest shipbuilding companies of the [[Star League]].  At its height, it operated more than 30 shipyards, with 6 located outside the [[Terran Hegemony]], and was a major manufacturer for the [[Star League Defense Force]].<ref name=SL165>''The Star League'', p. 165</ref>
  
 
==Overview==
 
==Overview==
The company was headquartered on Station Alpha, a satellite in orbit of [[Terra]].  Other major company facilities included [[Keid]], [[Thorin]], [[Terra Firma]], and [[Yorii]].  Though it was a primary supplier of the SLDF, the company also wished to do business with the other [[Great Houses]], which put it in conflict with the League.  During the designing of the ''[[Behemoth (DropShip class)|Behemoth]]'' and ''[[Mammoth]]'' [[DropShips]], the company was assured that it could sell the designs to foreign markets.  However, when prototypes of both ships made their maiden flights in [[2658]], the government immediately put them on the advanced-technology blacklist, limiting their sale to the Hegemony and creating financial hardship for the company.  Two years later, both prototypes were stolen from their moorings above Keid. The Hegemony government, realizing the prototypes would be copied and sold anyway, relented and allowed Krester's to sell to foreigners.<ref name=SLp165/>
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The company was headquartered on Station Alpha, a satellite in orbit of [[Terra]].  Other major company facilities included [[Keid]], [[Thorin]], [[Terra Firma]] and [[Yorii]].  Though it was a primary supplier of the SLDF, the company also wished to do business with the other [[Great Houses]], which put it in conflict with the League.  During the designing of the ''[[Behemoth (DropShip class)|Behemoth]]'' and ''[[Mammoth]]'' [[DropShips]], the company was assured that it could sell the designs to foreign markets.  However, when prototypes of both ships made their maiden flights in [[2658]], the government immediately put them on the advanced-technology blacklist, limiting their sale to the Hegemony and creating financial hardship for the company.  Two years later, both prototypes were stolen from their moorings above Keid. The Hegemony government, realizing the prototypes would be copied and sold anyway, relented and allowed Krester's to sell to foreigners.<ref name=SL165/>
  
Whether Krester's was behind the theft of its own ships was never proven, and it continued to be a primary supplier for the SLDF.  Krester's would not survive the fall of the Star League, and many of its facilities, such as the orbital yards at Keid, were destroyed in the fighting.<ref name=SLp165/> While the facility at Terra would be decommissioned, the shipyards at Keid, Terra Firma, Thorin and Yorii were all destroyed during the [[First Succession War]].<ref name="FSWp125">''First Succession War'', p. 125: "Shipbuilding Casualties of the First Succession War"</ref>
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Whether Krester's was behind the theft of its own ships was never proven, and it continued to be a primary supplier for the SLDF.  Krester's would not survive the fall of the Star League, and many of its facilities, such as the orbital yards at Keid, were destroyed in the fighting.<ref name=SL165/> While the facility at Terra would be decommissioned, the shipyards at Keid, Terra Firma, Thorin and Yorii were all destroyed during the [[First Succession War]].<ref name="FSWp125">''First Succession War'', p. 125, "Shipbuilding Casualties of the First Succession War"</ref>
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==Leadership==
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The company was led by the Kester family of Terra.{{cn}}
  
 
==Manufacturing==
 
==Manufacturing==
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|''[[Behemoth (DropShip class)|Behemoth]]''-class<ref name=SLp165/>
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|''[[Behemoth (DropShip class)|Behemoth]]''-class<ref name=SL165/>
 
| DropShip
 
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|''[[Texas]]''-class<ref name=TRO2750p144>''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 144: "Texas WarShip Profile"</ref>
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|''[[Texas]]''-class<ref name=TRO2750p144>''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 144, "Texas WarShip Profile"</ref>
 
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
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* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
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* ''[[Technical Readout: 2750]]''
 
* ''[[The Star League]]''
 
* ''[[The Star League]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 2750]]''
 
  
 
[[Category:Manufacturing Centers|Krester's Ship Construction]]
 
[[Category:Manufacturing Centers|Krester's Ship Construction]]
[[Category:Terran Hegemony Corporations]]
 

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