So What would a Hughes class mobile shipyard look like?

[Korzon77]

We know it can be put together from individual modular parts that can be transported by jumpship and that its fairly big.

But what would it include?  My thought is that it would include fairly extensive fabrication facilities-- a mobile shipyard implies that you're not always going to be in places with a currently established support structure, so you would probably include that with the station--or possibly as smaller space stations that are shipped with it. What would you make a hughs station look like?

[snewsom2997]

Figure a Exposed Slip up to a couple million tons capacity (3 or 4 Hughes Sections), several smaller pressurized yards (6-12 Huges Sections), for fabrication of large complex components, Engines, KF-Drives, individual Ship modules. Then you have to have some amount of workshops and factories, for a basically static facility I would say 3 or 4 times what a Newgrange would carry (6-12 Hughes Sections), and even more if you are going to be fabricating the weapons and electronics locally. I would want several (6-12 Hughes modules) just for supplies and parts. Finally your 10-20k workers and administrators will need living space, (3-4 Hughes modules with large Grav Decks, like a Snowden Mining station.

I basically imagine something like the Pavaise SDS Station, but made of Hughes Station Blocks, just a bit bigger to take the Potemkins and McKennas.

[truetanker]

Take a Pavise, strip out the weapons except Point Defense, use leftover tonnage as cargo, attach several factories and habitats to the 12 drop collars as needed. Including Pressurized and Unpressurized yard slips!

Not to shabby if you mind that each facility can be swaped out as needed.

TT

[SCC]

I'd say it's either a modular space station design, like the Dragoons Hephaestus, or set of DropShip/Construction Shack designs that can build things. Note that for the later you wouldn't get proper 'slips' although such a thing is realistically unlikely in space construction.

[Korzon77]

It might be both. I was thinking--the entire point of the Huges is that you want to be able to move it, but that means you might have to change things dramatically depending on where you're going. A covert shipyard in the periphery isn't going to be able to order parts, so you'd need more fabrication plants, wheras a temporary shipyard set up in a well-known region is going to be able to avail itself of local resources.

[beachhead1985]

Where is this mentioned?