Frigga Factory
| “ | What do you mean with ‘what do you plan to build there'? Everything both you and us want, of course! | ” |
| —Lisa asked by Jet about the planned factory | ||
Contents
History
The Frigga Factory Complex is housed in one of the old mining excavations on Frigga's surface. Starting towards the end of 2022 Catgirl Industries enclosed the pit with a pressure cap at surface level and began initial structural and framing work for the factory. The final fitting out was completed sometime in early 2025, though the plant had been basically operational for over a year prior.
The complex is Catgirl Industries first attempt to replicate their production techniques outside their own space stations, so that other people can start using them to build and invent on their own.
During normal operation many components are bought from other parts of Fenspace to ease the production of new hardware, but in theory the factory complex can build everything itself if supplied with the necessary raw materials.
Both Cortana and Serina are present in the factory, alongside an ‘emergency operation system’, which could run the factory at a lower efficiency without a direct AI control. Replacing all the aware Exocomps with different models may also lead to other problems.
The Factory appears on Frigga’s books as a contracted tenant, paying for oxygen, power and defense in raw material and through shared use of the factory itself. Frigga and Survival Shot normally use the factory to save on the cost of spare parts.
Structure of the factory
The factory and its support infrastructure are housed in one of Frigga’s old mining excavations, a leftover of the time when Frigga was mined for resources. Because of the size of the site, it’s still mostly empty.
The cave of the complex is separated from the outside of the asteroid by two 50m doors that form a spaceship sized airlock. Multiple smaller airlocks allow small vehicles, persons or even Exocomps to enter and leave the cave without using the main doors.
The airlock leads into the open space of the factory floor. The factory complex itself is built onto the walls of the cavern, simplifying access The catgirls have installed enough accommodation for 80 people, following a similar - if slightly more spacious - layout to the quarters on Jenga.
The main factory area can accommodate projects up to 100 meters long, with an upper limit on usable volume of about 250,000 cubic meters. This is usually split among smaller projects over multiple removable levels.
It is designed specifically for maximum flexibility, being able to produce everything used in the factory itself, firearm components, parts for Exocomps, Makos, Kodiaks, Judys or even something as large as a full-scale Gundam replica or a Normandy class cruiser. The factory can also produce copies of its own hardware,
The factory is connected with the main living area on Frigga by a 20 kilometer long tunnel left over from the original excavations.
Power and communication
Two separate lines of optical fiber run along the tunnel between Frigga’s living space and the factory to keep both areas in contact. One fiber for normal email, voice or video communication and the second one for the Red Telephone between the control centers of both areas.
Frigga’s TITANIC system is specifically isolated from the factory, both for safety and security reasons. The two cables are the only direct lines of communication between both sectors, and are specifically islanded from any computer systems in either sector. The only communication that can travel from one network to the other one are some simple chat, voice and video protocols over two specialized proxies on both sides.
Most power is provided by Frigga’s 4 main reactors[1]; 2012-era Stellarators burning a Deuterium-Tritium mix, generating steam to drive 4 main turbines on a direct cycle. Each turbine outputs a maximum of 1.21 GW of electricity at 60Hz. This power is supplied to the factory by a high-voltage 3-phase line.
The factory itself also has it’s own backup Helium-3 fusion reactor capable of supplying emergency power [2].
The first product manufactured by the Factory were FR-15 rifles, to replace a few worn AUG’s damaged by careless use. The initial ten were built in July 2023, as a test of a composite fabrication printer.
Products Designed by Catgirl Industries on Frigga
- M-35 Mako all terrain vehicle
- UT-47 Kodiak Shuttle
- Exocomps with built in mining tools
Products Designed natively on Frigga
- Survival Shot spare parts.
- Frigga 15 rifles for Survival Shot. (The first thing ever produced.)
- Structural hardware for Frigga itself.
- MZ-23 Judy and derivatives. (Alternatively known as the Bahamode or Pokémech[3])
Trivia
- Standard working crew consists of 48 catgirls and more than 500 Exocomps of all sizes in 2024, both are slowly increasing with the size of the factory
- The last parts of the factory were the Eezo creation particle beam system and a factory for holographic circuits.
- The Factory has a dedicated Interwave node connected to Jenga
- The Factory has its own instance of the Grid.
References
- ↑ Blackly named after nuclear disasters, considering the plant was left behind by the original owners due to radioactive contamination making it uneconomical to remove
- ↑ at least the catgirls say its just for backup
- ↑ in Candle in the Dark anyway
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