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==Overview==
The space docks and workshops that circle the Jupiter, like a ring of moons, are 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>
