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Each of the Imperium's ship designs is associated with a single shipyard: the [[Emperor Class Battleship|''Emperor'']], [[Tyrant Class Cruiser|''Tyrant'']] and [[Dominator Class Cruiser|''Dominator'']] are typical of the spaceships produced at the Jovian shipyards.
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.<sup>2-p83</sup>
==Geography==
===Moons===
*'''Ananke''' : This moon is known to have had habitats on its surface by the era of the Horus Heresy.<sup>2-p83</sup>
*'''Iocaste''' : This moon is known to have had habitats on its surface by the era of the Horus Heresy.<sup>2-p83</sup>
*'''Europa''' : Located within the Galilean range, this Europa had been geo-engineered into an ocean-moon by the Horus Heresy.<sup>2-p83</sup>
*'''Io''' : One of the moons in the Galilean range that had a seething orange mass by the Horus Heresy.<sup>2-p83</sup>
*'''Ganymede''' : Another of the moons of Jupiter with the shipyards centering around it as well as the dozen other smaller moons.<sup>2-p83</sup>
===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 frmo 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]].<sup>2-p83</sup>
==Sources==
*<sup>1</sup>: [[White Dwarf 139 (UK)]] and [[White Dwarf 140 (UK)|140 (UK)]], ''Imperial Spaceships'' by Jervis Johnson, Andy Jones, Simon Forrest, Rick Priestley*<sup>2</sup>: [[Nemesis (Novel)]], p. 83
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