KDY shipyards

Besides starships and vehicles, KDY produces a line of planetary defense weaponry, including ion cannons, turbo lasers, and plasma weaponry. These products were advertised as "The first, last, and only line of defense your planet will ever need!"

The primary shipyards make up a nearly solid ring, called the Orbital Array, that surrounds the planet Kuala itself. These stations are split into smaller units, designated as slipways, offices, machine shops, factories, drydocks, or apartments for workers. Most Kuali citizens lived within this ring, never setting foot on the surface of the planet below. The orbital array is lightly armed, sufficient to deal with pirates or small warships, though anything above a frigate is beyond the capabilities of the array's defenses.

There were also three facilities that play a key role in the function of the ring. The first is the Kuali supply space station, located on the West portion of the Orbital Array, which is responsible for receiving and distributing various supplies required for both creating/maintaining the various warships docked there, and for maintaining the orbital array itself. The second was the Kuati residential space station, located to the north, which acted as living space for the workers at the Orbital Array. The third is the Kuati military space station responsible for defense.

Owing to the Orbital Array's primary function of laying down, constructing, and maintaining various starships, the ring is littered with various drydocks, warehouses, machine shops, and factories.

As many live in the ring, the Orbital Array also consists of many apartment complexes, hotels, restaurants, shops, medical facilities, and places of entertainment. Most of the offworlders that visited Kuali remain in the ring during their entire stay. Security Forces regularly patrol all areas within the ring, and as such have multiple headquarter offices distributed throughout.

Kuali's two moons, Bador and Ronay, are used for weapons and drive testing, to prevent damage to the main facilities or planet in case of any accidents. Further out were a number of secondary facilities. While the orbital array contained the most important shipyards, they were far from the only ones. A massive belt of stations, docks, and repair facilities orbit at the fringe of the system itself, making up the bulk of KDY's construction capabilities.

KDY utilizes a unique method to build large capital ships quickly. To maximize productivity, the hulls of ships under construction are wrapped in an airtight shroud, allowing workers to avoid wearing bulky space suits. This shroud was also part of the launching ceremony for a new ship. The work crew was evacuated, and the atmosphere ignited, burning the material away. The ash would settle on the ship until it moved, when it would be shaken off and the new vessel emerged, clean and tempered.