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'''Jupiter''' is a forge-world, and as with all forge-worlds, a vast manufacturing center. It is the base of the orbital Jovian shipyards. The docks and workshops circle the planet like a ring of moons, home to the millions of technomat and drone [[Servitor]]s that work under the supervision of [[Tech-priest#Artisan|Artisan]] and [[Tech-priest#Rune Priest|Rune Priest]] Tech-priests to build the [[Imperial Navy|Imperium's warships]]. Each ship is a vast undertaking, taking generations. Many of those working on it will live and die during its construction, never seeing the magnificent warship they proudly struggled so hard to create.
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>
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.
==Geography==
*'''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>
*'''Thule''' : An asteroid moon that served as the clandestine shipyard for the ''[[Furious Abyss]]'' and was destroyed by [[Dark Mechanicus|renegade members]] of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] during the Horus Heresy.<sup>2-p83</sup>
===Orbitals===
