Favorite Factory/Production Site

[Hellraiser]

We've had favorite medium mech, favorite asf, favorite, well, most everything, but I was thinking of some factories the other day & it got me thinking what are people's favorites.

Maybe its that it makes your favorite unit (Mech/BA/Warship, whatever)

Maybe its the way its designed.  (Under a Mountain like Hesperus)

Maybe its where it is  (Terra, New Avalon, etc etc.)

Or Maybe its just some company that has some great fluff that you love.

So like the title says,  What is your favorite Factory/Production Site Location?

And I do mean specific factory location,  both the maker & the world.

So Achernar + New Avalon  v/s  just saying Earthworks or Hesperus.


For me, I think it might be the NETC Factories in the New Earth system.

They had several, mostly Vehicles, but also a Dropship line & eventually some Mechs in the Dark Age.

Their products were pretty much sold to anyone & everyone in the Terran corridor.

Finally, and really most important, it was the world we were based out of in my old MW-1 RPG campaign of the Late 80's - Early 90's


Vehicles = Karnov, Engineering Vehicle, Myrmidon, Vedette, Manticore, Alacorn
Dropships = Gazelle, Dragau, Castrum
Mechs = Kheper, Uraeus, Fwltur (Industrial)

[Daryk]

I'm going to go with the Quickscell plant on Ares.  Some time ago, I fluffed it as the place manufacturing my PPC Scorpion variant...

[Hellfire]

My favorite shipyard is at Alarion, because of the FWL attack that knocked out at least some of the Jumpship production there for decades in the early 3000s. Knocking out a jumpship factory at the height of the damaging a jumpships being taboo makes quite a few statements.

[rebs]

I love Hesperus!  The history, the many epic battles, everything about it.  I've liked Hesperus since the days of MechWarrior on a 2.86 Tandy.  Great place to buy battlemechs. 

[Iron Grenadier]

Olivetti Weaponry on Sudeten.

First, it makes two of my favorite mechs, the Thunderbolt and Warhammer.

Second, I found the bit of backstory cool. Former engineer discovers the place in ruins and gets it back up and running.

And third - During our last campaign, the players merc group was hired to raid Sudeten. This included recovering personnel from Olivetti. Intel from this was used for follow up raids, including the (non-canon) Star League era underground warehouse that had a few Warhammer 7A's and Thunderbolt 5Sb's that needed liberated.

[Major Headcase]

Hope Industrial  Works, in the Fiefdom of Randis. On Randis actually.
I like manufacturers that aren't under the thumb of the Great Houses. And I like that HIW represents real measurable progress in the Periphery; that it's not just a recycling backwater reusing ancient trash. By the Dark Age they make Warhammers, Dervishes, Firebees, and the Hawkwolf. While they are mostly still Introtech (Succession Wars) level even at that point, it is progress!!
Now if only they started making Phoenix Hawks... they'd be perfect!!  :))
Also, Battletech  doesn't have a lot of factions that feel like "the good guys", but the Brotherhood of Randis come close to fitting the bill. So anything connected to them I'm pretty ok with.  ;)

[Sartris]

Niops

[Sigil]

Nimakachi Fusion Products industrial complex on Lapida II.  Built inside the tunnels of a bankrupt underground mining facility originally owned by a company from Sendai, during the Succession Wars it produced both the Spider and Warhammer.  The factory itself was cobbled together during the Succession Wars and due to the continued technical decline, was forced to end production of the Warhammer by 3028, leaving it producing only a single light 'Mech.

Ironically, the Clan Invasion saved the plant, with the DCMS throwing boatloads of cash at Nimakachi and giving it access to LosTech in exchange for every last Spider they could produce.  Nimakachi would go on to produce the successor to the Spider, the 35-ton Venom, beginning in 3050 and the 45-ton quadrupedal Bishamon beginning in 3060.

The tunnels would ultimately save the factory itself, and Nimakachi as a whole, from the Word of Blake during the Jihad.  Nimakachi's primary factory and headquarters on Tematagi were destroyed in 3069 by the Order of the Faithful, an eclectic pirate group started by the Astrokaszian Warlord Sir Obbaka Rashier and manipulated by WoB agent Hadai Tol.

[abou]

Mine was Independence Weaponry on Quentin... until the Dracs took it.

[Syzyx]

Gonna hafta go with LexaTech Industries. As for the specific site, Hun Ho was the only location for LexaTech originally but then they seem to have invented Irece for the specific purpose of eliminating the Stinger LAM line without killing the company (and a good chunk of the DC) overall. This leaves me at a bind with canon as I like LexaTech for the aforementioned LAM but quite dislike the shoehorned in world of Irece due to associations.

[LastChanceCav]

StarCorps plant on Crofton. Omnimechs and omnivees? Yes please.

Cheers,
LCC

[Dragon Cat]

Hope Industrial  Works, in the Fiefdom of Randis. On Randis actually.
I like manufacturers that aren't under the thumb of the Great Houses. And I like that HIW represents real measurable progress in the Periphery; that it's not just a recycling backwater reusing ancient trash. By the Dark Age they make Warhammers, Dervishes, Firebees, and the Hawkwolf. While they are mostly still Introtech (Succession Wars) level even at that point, it is progress!!
Now if only they started making Phoenix Hawks... they'd be perfect!!  :))
Also, Battletech  doesn't have a lot of factions that feel like "the good guys", but the Brotherhood of Randis come close to fitting the bill. So anything connected to them I'm pretty ok with.  ;)

Niops

Two good shouts also Barcella Beta manufacturing my favourite OmniMech the Shadow Cat, along side the Joust and Shoden tanks

[Lord Harlock]

Probably, the Corean Enterprise plant on New Avalon for pumping out Valkyries since the end of the Star League for the most part. However, my favorite jump yard is Challenge Systems at Panpour that supposedly produces Monliths. Well maybe they finally finished one by 3150? The thing about Challenge Systems is that they being working on something for years, but no body knows. The truth is probably that they are bad at making Monolith jumpships.

[gleamingterrier]

SelsSys' Fidelity space complex on Loyalty. Almost as big as the Galax complex, but was able to survive and continue through the Jihad, albeit with reduced production.

[Kojak]

Sekkaris Mekwerks on Mars, and Earthwerks Incorporated on Keystone.

[Greatclub]

ArcRoyal.

They've got a few duds, but there are some very nasty mechs being made there.

[Gigastrike]

Right now it's the Defiance Industries Furillo plant.  The Uziel and Defiance are neat.

[Natasha Kerensky]

Back in the Clan Invasion and FedCom Civil War days, Norse-Storm on Loxley and Solaris.  Hard to go wrong with Devastators, every variant of Thunderhawk, the Nightstar, the old school Xanthos, the stealth Hunchback, the LB-20X Hunchback, the modern Swayback, and Maelstroms and Stealths for cavalry and skirmishing.  The name is also great.  Of course, the company, the associated merc unit, and most of those designs originated with a group I played with in Boston during my college days.  (About as munchy as Blackwell on Outreach after the Fourth Succession War...)

Today, I’d go with Kerensky Memorial Manufacturing on Strana Mechty.  Made some of the first Clan omnimechs and was resurrected and remained at the cutting edge of mech design thanks to the Society (albeit in secret).  Still churning out Septicemias, maybe Osteons, and lord knows what else for the Homeworlders as far as we know.

Honorable mention to Vengeance Incorporated on Pirates’s Haven.  Who doesn’t like a mech factory for a bandit king (er, queen)?

[Hellraiser]

Right now it's the Defiance Industries Furillo plant.  The Uziel and Defiance are neat.

While I'm not a fan of the Defiance,  I agree with love for this plant.

Its where the Lyrans produced all their Recon mechs............      Locust, Wasp, & Zeus

[guardiandashi]

back in the day... the gm-blackwell facility that was making the marauder II as listed in objective raids.

[MarauderD]

Mine was Independence Weaponry on Quentin... until the Dracs took it.

Independence Weaponry on Quentin is a great choice.  As of 3151, I have NO idea what is still being produced there.  It has changed hands from Davion to Kurita in 39, then from Kurita to Word of Blake Protectorate during the Jihad.  From there to the Republic, and then from the Republic back to Kurita.  I can't think of many other factory worlds (any) that have changed hands so many times in the setting.  We know what it made in 3025 thanks to the original House Davion Sourcebook, and have an inkling what might have been made there at the beginning of the Jihad thanks to MadCapellan. 

But in 3151?  No clue. 

[Nibs]

I've always been partial to the factories on Ramora (Raven Alliance). 81 000 planetwide population, largely Taoist, producing a massive selection of aerospace military hardware (including an OmniFighter in the Periphery!). The cherry on top? Raveena Electronics doesn't seem to stop producing vintage Chargers, even after the Jihad. Awesome.

[Greatclub]

I've always been partial to the factories on Ramora (Raven Alliance). 81 000 planetwide population, largely Taoist, producing a massive selection of aerospace military hardware (including an OmniFighter in the Periphery!). The cherry on top? Raveena Electronics doesn't seem to stop producing vintage Chargers, even after the Jihad. Awesome.

No, not Awesome, Charger.

ba-boom-bing

Yeah, that's begging for a retcon. Where's the source? edit - Nemmind, it's objective: clans, and they're not 1A1s like I thought you meant.

[assaultdoor]

Gonna hafta go with LexaTech Industries. As for the specific site, Hun Ho was the only location for LexaTech originally but then they seem to have invented Irece for the specific purpose of eliminating the Stinger LAM line without killing the company (and a good chunk of the DC) overall. This leaves me at a bind with canon as I like LexaTech for the aforementioned LAM but quite dislike the shoehorned in world of Irece due to associations.

When did the Hun Ho location get introduced? Irece is the only location listed in in House Kurita: The Draconis Combine.

[Sartris]

earliest reference i could find was 3055: Upgrade (2005 FanPro printing) under the cerberus entry

[Hellraiser]

3055 was REALLY bad w/ listing off the wrong factories for certain houses.

I'm thinking this is a "Reverse" of the Bishimon/Venom issue.

Here we have a Draconis Combine Manufacturer was listed for a Mech made in the FWL.

We ended up getting some "new" factories at satellite facilities out of those errors.

Temetagi-II was one of those so the Combine could have their own source of Spiders, Venoms, Bishimon.

Hun Ho was added to give the FWL a "Lexatech" factory where the Cerberus was made.

Unless some later source backdates them to an earlier date, I chalk it up to "expansions due to cooperation post-Outreach conference", because that is when you saw lots of manufactures start sharing designs via the Omni-Project or creating new designs together, IE Gunslinger.

[Fear Factory]

Quickscell, man. They have everything you need!  :D

[Hellraiser]

Quickscell, man. They have everything you need!  :D

That's lots of factories.  You have to pick just one.

[Fear Factory]

That's lots of factories.  You have to pick just one.

Pandora.

[SteveRestless]

the Hand-Built Timber Wolf line on Weingarten.