Orbital
Mercer Yards
The great Mars spaceport and shipyard, where the survey ships are built.
Type
port (Mars spaceport / shipyard)
Position
Mars
Description
Mars has been "terraformed into the great spaceport." The Mercer Yards are the shipbuilding heart of it — where the Mercer-class survey ships (including the NV Dawnward) are built. Named, like the ship class, for Mercer — the captain who brought the lost Endurance home (an Spent Light/The Reach link; cf.
Classification
Sol-system industrial/shipbuilding site; part of the home-system "fortress of plenty" (orbital habitats, a system-wide defensive lattice).
On the record
- The build-yard of the Survey fleet; part of the reshaped Sol ("two generations of seam-power have reshaped Sol into a defended network").