Picket Fleet

The Veritech R&D Facility went on-line in February of 2000.  Since then it has grown and expanded its operations.  The first facility to go up was the Thyrian space station, known as Veritech Industries.  Her primary purpose was to perform R&D experiments.  Over time though, this facility became the primary headquarters of the company.  This large station was purchased because it's massive size made more then enough space to perform the task the station was meant for, and other stations didn't hold enough space for the requirements to be met.  The Station's location is within the Tatooine system, near the planet itself but not in orbit with Tatooine.  To this day she is where all financial operations take place as well as proposals for starships and various other activities not covered in ship construction or maintenance.

Shortly after the Thyrian staion went on-line, so did the Advanced shipyard designated Veritech Shipyards.  The Facility was planning to build a wide variety of ships and various sizes.  Since the standerd shipyard didn't have the capacity for building ships much larger then a strike cruiser, the Advanced shipyard was purchased for this purpose.  Shortly after going on-line, the yard was ordered to begin construction of the VC-10 Ulysses-class battlecruiser, and vrecently, the VC-11 Pelican-class Supercarrier.

The Veritech repair yard was purchased for the obvious resons, to repair any ships they own that have occured damage for one reason or another.  both the shipyard and repair yard are both located at the Thyrian station's position.  All 3 of these stations make up the bulk of the Veritech R&D facility and have served the company well.

Presently, the Merimack Scout ship is the only ship the Veritech R&D facility owns. This ship was aquired in the year 2001, and all other ships in use by the company are leased by various companies for temporary use.  The Merimack's job is to seek out areas of space for mining materials suitable for starship construction.  Once found, Asteroid mining units are deployed in the area, by larger ships.

The Vergeso Asteroid shipyards were found abondoned by the empire, shortly after Endor by the Scout vessal, Merimack.  Since the company that originally owned it no longer existed, the Veritech R&D company took possession of the shipyards, and deployed an automated asteroid defense system around it in the early year of 2002.  since then the Vergeso asteroid shipyards has become the base of operation for the VC-20 Behemoth-class mega carrier's construction.  A laser mine field was set up around the construction zone of the Behemoth to prevent asteroid colisions shortly after construction began.

Shortly after vergeso was maned and brought on-line, a large Asteroid threatened to colide with the station.  thanks to numerious utility vehicles, this was prevented and it was placed a safe distance from the shipyard.  Shortly later this asteroid was heavily mined and built into a hanger facility.  Presently, this hanger is only know as Vergeso 2.