Jupiter
Jupiter is a forge-world in the Sol System and, as with all forge-worlds,it is a vast manufacturing center. It is the base of the orbital Jovian shipyards.
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Name: | Jupiter | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Solar | ||
| Sector: | Sector Solar | ||
| Subsector: | Subsector Sol | ||
| System: | Sol System | ||
| Population: | Unknown | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperium | ||
| Class: | Forge World | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Aptus Non | ||
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Overview
The docks and workshops circle the Jupiter, like a ring of moons, are home to the millions of technomat and drone Servitors that work under the supervision of Artisan and Rune Priest Tech-priests to build the Imperium's warships. Each ship is a vast undertaking, taking generations. Many of those working on it will live and die during its construction, never seeing the magnificent warship they proudly struggled so hard to create.
It is known that as far back as the Horus Heresy, Jupiter held industrial and colonial cohorts with clouds of satellites along with Trojan asteroids containing human colonies, factories along with forges. The Jovian colonies were powered by the radiation that surged from the massive planet and much of the industry fed on the mineral riches that had been yielded from centuries of exploitation with its full potentially having not been fully exhausted. Due to these factors, Jupiter served as Terra's shipyards and its skies were always filled with starships with spacedocks and fabricatories around the various moons that worked tirelessly to construct anything from single manned Raven interceptors to gargantuan hulls of Emperor-class command carrier battleships.2-p83
Each of the Imperium's ship designs is associated with a single shipyard: the Emperor, Tyrant and Dominator are typical of the spaceships produced at the Jovian shipyards.
Geography
Moons
- Ananke : This moon is known to have had habitats on its surface by the era of the Horus Heresy.2-p83
- Iocaste : This moon is known to have had habitats on its surface by the era of the Horus Heresy.2-p83
- Europa : Located within the Galilean range, this Europa had been geo-engineered into an ocean-moon by the Horus Heresy.2-p83
- Io : One of the moons in the Galilean range that had a seething orange mass by the Horus Heresy.2-p83
- Ganymede : Another of the moons of Jupiter with the shipyards centering around it as well as the dozen other smaller moons.2-p83
- Thule : An asteroid moon that served as the clandestine shipyard for the Furious Abyss and was destroyed by renegade members of the Adeptus Mechanicus during the Horus Heresy.2-p83
- Callisto : A moon of Jupiter known to hold residential orbitals above its surface by the Horus Heresy.2-p87
Orbitals
- Saros Station : This space station in orbit around Jupiter resembled a vast spindle bathing in crimson glow which made it appear as if it were crystal chandelier that had been severed from its mounting and thus cast free into the void. Unlike the majority of the gas giants industrial and colonial cohorts, the station had been a resort platform by the Horus Heresy where the Jovian elite found respite as well as diversion from the works of the shipyards and manufactories. It was said that only the Venus orbitals could surpass Saros Station in luxury with its avenues of gold and silver, null-gardens, auditoriums along with the finest opera houses outside the Imperial Palace.2-p83
See Also
Sources
- 1: White Dwarf 139 (UK) and 140 (UK), Imperial Spaceships by Jervis Johnson, Andy Jones, Simon Forrest, Rick Priestley
- 2: Nemesis (Novel), p. 83
