KDY also had a tendency to create subsidiaries to focus on specific markets: Belderone, Rothana, and Xa Fel were among many worlds to contribute to the KDY construction effort, either directly or through subsidiary corporations such as Rothana Heavy Engineering and Ubrikkian Industries. Besides Core Galaxy, Kuat rapidly bought up a number of other small ship builders, and built factories on a number of worlds outside the Kuat Sector. KDY quickly earned a reputation as a predatory company. It was soon joined by the Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC) which had bought out Corellia StarDrive when the older company lost its entire senior design team in a shuttle accident. With this purchase, Kuat took its place as the top ship builder in the Old Republic. In 500 BBY KDY bought the company and retired the Core Galaxy Systems name. Between price wars, industrial espionage, and more underhanded tactics, Core Galaxy suffered severe losses and was forced to sell its assets. Kuat set its sights on becoming a member of this group, and engaged in a vicious competition with Core Galaxy Systems. KDY was not a top tier shipyard, however that title was held by the triumvirate made up of Core Galaxy Systems, Corellia StarDrive, and Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc. In the millennia that followed, the shipyards became noted for building warships that served in the Republic Navy throughout both the Old Sith Wars and the New Sith Wars. Despite their use of sabotage, espionage, and hired pirate groups, the trade groups failed to stop the Kuat families, who settled their internal differences by signing the Inheritance Exemption which gave the Kuat family perpetual control over Kuat Drive Yards.Īfter these early difficulties, the shipyard grew rapidly in both size and prestige, and by 5000 BBY it was known as a first-class galactic ship builder. That project faced opposition from fledgling trade consortia as well as internal dissent within the merchant families. They hired terraformers to change the planet Kuat in the Core Worlds into a paradise world while engineers designed and built the first six of many orbital shipyard complexes. These merchants, led by the Kuat family, joined together with the intent to create the largest, most efficient shipyard in the galaxy. Kuat Drive Yards was founded in the early days of the Galactic Republic by a group of Human aristocrats known as the Ten. ' Since the dawn of the Republic, Kuat Drive Yards has been the exclusive supplier of many of our greatest warships.' ―Fleet Admiral Aygo

Slipways wiki