Ceres Metals Industries
Founded in 2415, Ceres Metals Industries is one of the most successful conglomerates in the Inner Sphere. It has invested in widely diverse fields, from personal armaments to the civilian ground vehicles produced by Ceres Motors. They are best known however, as a military armaments manufacturer.[1]
With over 500 facilities on over hundred worlds, the massive Ceres Metals Industries was one the first developers of BattleMech technology and the cornerstone of military hardware manufacture in the Capellan Confederation. Today their flagship design (the Vindicator) has become synonymous with the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces.
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Overview
With its main headquarters are on Capella, with major divisions on Coventry, Dorwinion, Elidor, Kimball, Sarna and Ward, Ceres maintains its neutrality by supplying arms and equipment to any organization which can meet its prices.
When Ceres Metals Industries first constructed their facilities on Warlock, they were able to rely heavily on imports from the Federated Suns. With the reunification of St. Ives and the Confederation, the facility had to be expanded to produce equipment which could no longer be purchased from the Capellan March.[citation needed]
The Ceres Metals plant on St.Ives has seen several significant changeovers in recent years. First was the conversion of it's 'Mech line from producing the Confederation's staple Vindicator to the BJ-3 Blackjack when the St.Ives Commonality broke away from the Confederation as the St Ives Compact. Now following the reunification of St.Ives with the Capellan state, the line has been converted again, this time to produce different variants of the Phoenix Hawk. Finally, continued demand for the BJ-3 design resulted in production of the venerable design being restored for limited runs.[citation needed]
In 3076 the CEO of Ceres Metals Industries was Duchess Evadne Rivoli.[2]
Manufacturing
Ceres Metals Industries has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
St. Ives
Components produced on St. Ives:
Capella
Components produced on Capella[3][4]:
Indicass
Components produced on Indicass[5][6]:
Menke
Components produced on Menke:
Warlock
Tikonov
Component | Type |
---|---|
Minion | Hovercraft - Advanced Tactical Vehicle |
Morningstar | Wheeled Vehicles - City Command Vehicle |
Nissan 95 | Fusion Engine - Minion |
Durralex Light | Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles - Minion |
Durralex Standard | Armor - BattleMechs & Vehicles - Morningstar |
Overlock J-9 w/C³ Slave | Communications System - Minion |
Overlock J-11 w/C³ Master | Communications System - Morningstar |
Brightstar 17 Mk.II | Targeting-Tracking System - Minion & Morningstar |
Ceres Arms Model W | Medium Pulse Laser - Morningstar |
Ceres Arms Model T | AC/10 - Morningstar |
Sian
Components produced on Sian:
Component | Type |
---|---|
THR-2L Thunder | Heavy BattleMech |
Magna 350 XL | Fusion Engine - XL - Thunder |
References
- ↑ Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 57
- ↑ Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 57
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 Objective Raids, p. 143, "Produced Ceres Metals Industries Components"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3075, p. 75, "Produced Trinity Battle Armor"
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 Objective Raids, p. 147, "Produced Ceres Metals Industries Components"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Technical Readout: 3039, p. 12, "Produced Swift Wind Components"
Bibliography
- Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers
- MechWarrior: The BattleTech Role Playing Game
- Objective Raids
- Technical Readout: 3025 Revised
- Technical Readout: 3039
- Technical Readout: 3050 Upgrade, pp. 24, 50
- Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade, pp. 34, 48
- Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, p. 20, 58, 100
- Technical Readout: 3060, pp. 72, 104, 106
- Technical Readout: 3067, pp. 8, 18, 144
- Technical Readout: Project Phoenix, pp. 3, 23, 34, 48
- Technical Readout: 3075