Since we're finally getting to the juicy bits of the Battle of Fondor, I've decided to create quick rundown of potential targets in the Fondor system, and the defensive network, so that the NR players have a better idea of what exactly they can attack and where.
Fondor’s shipyards are a large and pretty important asset to the Empire, but are as of right now a little neglected compared to the more favoured Kuat shipyards as the Empire itself retreats back to its Core territories. They are as follows:
1 shipyard station capable of producing an Executor-class or Mandator III-class SSD in 3 years of concerted production. It had one under construction at the time of the Battle of Endor but that was removed and transported to another station closer to the Core for completion due to difficulties in defending Fondor itself. The bay is currently empty, but the station would nonetheless be regarded as a particularly important target. This station is on the same side of the planet as Tranto’s fleet station, and is directly protected by the nearby Golan II, 3 Golan Is further afield and both XQ-2 hangar stations.
2 shipyard stations capable of producing a total of 3 Praetor Mk I-scale vessels. These stations can also produce smaller SSDs, like Allegiances or Secutors. These two stations currently hold a single Secutor between them, with the other 2 bays undergoing an overhaul to increase their efficiency. One is on the opposite side of the planet, directly protected by a single Golan II and 2 Golan Is, while the other is alongside the large SSD shipyard.
4 shipyard stations capable of producing a maximum of 12 ISD-scale vessels between them simultaneously. They can similarly produce smaller vessels. There are a total of 9 ships in the bays, 3 Tectors and 6 ISDs respectively, in varying stages of completion. 2 Tectors and 1 ISD are only frame with over a year to completion, 4 ISDs and 1 Tector are somewhere around halfway completed with between 5 and 10 months left to completion, and a single ISD is very near to commissioning, with only testing and system integration left. This ISD has around 2 weeks left in the slips before it’s fully ready, but can be manned and used in battle immediately, as it is essentially completed. However, it wouldn’t be maximally effective, and furthermore has no crew immediately available, as they are currently training on a ground facility. These shipyards are split in groups of 3 between the protection of the Golan II stations, with the near-completed ISD being across the planet from Tranto.
9 shipyard stations capable of producing a maximum of 17 Gladiator-scale vessels at once. They are currently producing 2 Gladiators, 3 Ton Falks and 5 Vindicators, with 1 Gladiator and 2 Vindicators nearing completion. These are spread across the planet’s low orbit but are all directly protected by at least 1 Golan I.
14 shipyard stations capable of producing 31 Arquitens-scale vessels at once. They are producing, between them, 6 Arquitens, 8 Raider IIs, and 9 Lancers, with 3 Arquitens, 5 Raiders and 4 Lancers predicted to reach completion in the next 2 month. These stations are spread similarly to their slightly larger cousins, all protected by a minimum of a single Golan I.
There is also a significant amount of infrastructure in higher orbits around Fondor. These infrastructural stations include vast numbers of small depots, fuelling stations, handover stations for ferrying to and from the surface, sorting yards, etc. There are a few particularly important stations in high orbit: 7 major fuel depots, 3 traffic control stations, 6 large docking yards, 10 freight yards and a single, large civilian interstellar communications station in equatorial orbit for quick communications relays with the rest of the galaxy. The military’s comms are separately handled from the surface.
The defences protecting all of this are substantial. The orbital defences consist of 3 Golan IIs, 10 Golan Is, and 2 XQ-2 Hangar Stations. The Golan IIs are arranged in equatorial orbit in an equilateral triangle, each around 1000km from the surface. This allows them broad arcs, and can mutually support each other for everything except for extremely close targets. These are supported by 3 Golan Is each, themselves spread in an equilateral triangle around each Golan II, with sides of 500km between them. This set of 1 Golan II and 3 Golan Is is designated a “Cluster”, being Cluster A, Cluster B and Cluster C respectively. The two XQ-2s are in formation with Cluster A, which protects the large SSD shipyard, and is closest to Tranto’s fleet’s position. The two ground-based W-165s are positioned on polar opposite positions on the equator of the planet, with good arcs on potential approaches on all shipyard positions and Clusters. Their blindspots are covered by the Low Orbit ground defences, which consist of a fairly impressive array of turbolasers and lower-end ion cannons, with maximum ranges up to 50 000km, covering the entirety of the planet. I will not give concrete numbers, but there are sufficient to make entering low orbit dangerous, but not suicidal. The final Golan I is in a polar orbit, with an orbital period of 90 minutes, so it comes into view of a potential target for 60 minutes of those 90 minutes at minimum.
