Tengo Aerospace

Tengo Aerospace
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Corporation Profile
Founding Year16 April 2752[1]
AffiliationCapellan Confederation
HeadquartersTian-tan
(St. Ives III)[2]
LeadershipCEO
Product(s)
Manufacturing Plant(s)Backtal
(Sarna III)[3]

Tengo Aerospace was the leading manufacturer of aerospace fighters in the Capellan Confederation.

Overview[edit]

Tengo Aerospace was founded on 16 April 2752 on the planet Sarna. Tengo was founded by two prominent families, the Hunter and Demos families, both of whom were residents of the Sarna Commonality. By the outbreak of the Succession Wars Tengo had become the major manufacturer of light aerospace aircraft for the Capellan Confederation.[1]

By 3025, Tengo had been reduced to a shadow of its former self, having suffered from constant raiding and attacks through the Succession Wars. Output from its production lines had been reduced to the point that Tengo was only producing a few aircraft per month.[1]

As a result of the Fourth Succession War, Tengo Aerospace found itself in a precarious position, with the factories on Sarna located within the Sarna March of the Federated Commonwealth while the St. Ives factories were inside the borders of the newly independent St. Ives Compact. The Demos family had been the controlling interest in the Sarna factories for centuries but had become casualties of the war, leaving the Hunter family in control of the entire of Tengo Aerospace. The Hunters kept the factories working and the company benefited from its new ties to the Federated Commonwealth, but that respite lasted just a few decades; the conquest of much of the Sarna March and the entire St. Ives Compact by the Confederation in the 3060s left Tengo's future uncertain once again.[2]

Sarna found itself snubbed by the remainder of the Confederation once it had been reabsorbed, and just as Sarna found itself the outside so did Tengo-Sarna, the Sarna branch of Tengo Aerospace. The executives responsible for running Tengo-Sarna fled when the planet was conquered, leaving a power vacuum that the Hunter family could usefully exploit, but the Confederation was slow to order the fighters and DropShips produced on Sarna.[2]

Tengo-St. Ives was in a somewhat stronger position, with continued orders flowing in from the St. Ives Commonality, but the difficulties encountered by Tengo-Sarna as the company attempted to break into the domestic Capellan market left Tengo-Sarna selling their excess production to planetary militias and even mercenaries; as the Confederation drew ever-closer to the Jihad Tengo-Sarna found itself on the verge of having to slow or even stop production due to lack of demand.[2]

Manufacturing[edit]

Tengo Aerospace has manufacturing centers on the following planets:

Sarna[edit]

Note: The Tengo Aerospace facility on Sarna suffered no loss of production or personnel during the Jihad and was operating at a full production volume in 3079.[4]

Components produced on Sarna:[3][5][6][7][8]
Component Type
Conventional Fighter
Yangtze Air Transport[3][2] Conventional Fighter
Aerospace Fighter
F-10 Cheetah[5][3] Light aerospace fighter
F-14 Cheetah[3] Light aerospace fighter
TR-7 Thrush[5] Light aerospace fighter
TR-8 Thrush[3] Light aerospace fighter
TR-9 Thrush[3] Light aerospace fighter
LTN-G15 Lightning[3][5][6] Medium aerospace fighter
LTN-G16L Lightning[3] Medium aerospace fighter
DropShips
Mammoth[3][5][2][9] DropShip
Mule[3][5][2][9] DropShip
Seeker[3][5][2][9] DropShip
VTOLs
Warrior S-9 Stealth Helicopter[7] VTOL
Shun Transport VTOL[8] VTOL
Frame
Mujika Aerospace Type 12 Thrush[citation needed]
Imstar/10f Cheetah[citation needed]
HildCo Aerospace Type 4 Lightning[citation needed]
Fusion Engine
GM 200 Lightning[citation needed]
GM 250 Thrush & Cheetah[citation needed]
Rawlings 200 [citation needed]
Extralight Fusion Engine
GM 70 XL Warrior S-9[7]
GM 95 XL Shun[8]
GM 250 XL [citation needed]
Interplanetary Drive - DropShip
Bally Tech Super X40 Mammoth[citation needed]
GE 208011 Mule[citation needed]
Quad RanTech 720 Seeker[citation needed]
Armor (BattleMechs & Combat Vehicles)
Hellespont Lite Stealth Warrior S-9[7] & Shun[8]
Armor - FA - Aerospace Fighters
Aerobus Advanced Plus Ferro-Aluminum [citation needed]
StarGlo Ferro-Aluminum [citation needed]
Armor - Aerospace Fighters & Conventional Aircraft
StarGlo Aeolis [citation needed]
Starshield [citation needed]
Communications System
Endicott Type 11 Maser w/Guardian ECM Warrior S-9[7] & Shun[8]
Endicott Type 22 Maser Thrush, Cheetah & Lightning[citation needed]
Targeting-Tracking System
Dwyerson Mark IX Thrush, Cheetah & Lightning[citation needed]
Dwyerson Mark XX w/TAG & Targeting Computer Shun[8]
Dwyerson Mk XIX Warrior S-9[7]
ELRM-10
Tomudzuru Warrior S-9[7]
Magshot Gauss Rifle
Mydron Mini Shun[8]

St. Ives[edit]

Note: The facilities on St. Ives, suffered capital and personal losses of 22% during the Jihad but the factory had returned to full production volume by 3079.[4]

Components produced on St. Ives:[10][11]
Component Type
Aerospace Fighter
F-10 Cheetah[10][11] Light aerospace fighter
F-14 Cheetah[11] Light aerospace fighter
TR-7 Thrush[10][11] Light aerospace fighter
TR-8 Thrush[citation needed] Light aerospace fighter
TR-9 Thrush[citation needed] Light aerospace fighter
LTN-G15 Lightning[10][11][6] Medium aerospace fighter
LTN-G16L Lightning[citation needed] Medium aerospace fighter
Small Craft
ST-46 Shuttle[citation needed] Small Craft
Frame
Mujika Aerospace Type 12 Thrust[10]
Imstar 10/f Cheetah[10]
HildCo Aerospace Type 4 Lightning[10]
Fusion Engine
Rawlings 200 [citation needed]
GM 200 Lightning[10]
GM 250 Thrush & Cheetah[10]
Extralight Fusion Engine
GM 250 XL [citation needed]
Interplanetary Drive - Small Craft
Entech 200c [citation needed]
Armor - Aerospace Fighters & Conventional Aircraft
StarGlo Aeolis [citation needed]
Armor - FA - Aerospace Fighters
StarGlo Ferro-Aluminum [citation needed]
AC/20
Tomodzuru Refits and repair[citation needed]
Ultra AC/20
Tomodzuru Automatic Lightning[citation needed]
LRM-20
Tomodzuru Shipped to Ares for LRM Carrier[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 House Liao (The Capellan Confederation), p. 120: "Corporate Profiles - [Tengo Aerospace]"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Handbook: House Liao, p. 136: "Tengo Aerospace"
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Objectives: Capellan Confederation, p. 12: "Tengo Aerospace"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Objectives: Capellan Confederation, p. 3: "State of the Industry at a Glance (Dec 7079)"
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Objective Raids, p. 87: "Produced Tengo Aerospace Components"
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Technical Readout: 3075, p. 250: "Produced Lightning Fighter"
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Technical Readout: Prototypes, p. 28: "Produced Warrior S-9 Components"
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Technical Readout: 3145 Capellan Confederation, p. 12: "Produced Shun Components"
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 DropShips and JumpShips: ComStar Intelligence Summary, p. 15
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 Objective Raids, p. 149: "Produced Tengo Aerospace Components"
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Objectives: Capellan Confederation, p. 23: "Tengo Aerospace"

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