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Every month, the subscriber-only Jump Point publication includes profiles of locations and companies in the Star Citizen universe. Subscribers recieve these reports first, with a general release further down the line. Today we’re proud to share the article on Anvil Aerospace, designer of the Hornet fighter. This month’s Jump Point, available Friday, will include profiles of Roberts Space Industries and Earth!

Anvil Aerospace is one of the earliest Terran success stories. Founded in 2772, Anvil has been reliably delivering military-grade equipment to the UEE Navy for almost two centuries. The initial Anvil skunkworks facility was located in Nova Kyiv, Terra, and the company’s headquarters are still there. For the first seventy-odd years of Anvil’s existence, every design project was personally lead by company founder J.Harris Arnold. Arnold, an eccentric spacecraft designer of the old school who insisted on signing off on every part of his designs’ subsystems, was a beloved figure in an otherwise cutthroat industry.Today, Anvil has factories on three dozen UEE core worlds … but continues to source all systems itself and requires that the standing CEO sign off on every spacecraft alteration.

The company’s moniker comes from a quote in Robert Calvin’s famous early justification for UEE expansion, explaining that military spending “fuels the furnaces of expansion and strikes the anvils of innovation.” There’s little argument: fueling the furnaces of expansion is exactly what Anvil has been doing since Day One.The company has produced dozens of successful and iconic military spacecraft over the years, including the Hurricane, Osprey, Devastator, Hornet and Gladiator.No military campaign in the last two centuries has been launched without Anvil spacecraft in the forefront, and no carrier in UEE space today operates without at least a squadron of Anvil-designed fighters. In fact, Anvil designs have historically scored more space-to-space kills than any other military spacecraft.Hornets, in particular, have destroyed more enemy hardware (measured in star credits) than all other current Navy space fighter designed combined.

Civilian Craft
Anvil’s civilian line is relatively new, a decision that many at the company initially resisted. The general feeling was that producing civilian grade versions of dedicated military spacecraft would dilute the brand: Anvil’s carefully maintained position as the tip of the spear would be in danger. Debate over the issue became so protracted that it threatened to split the company into two separate groups, with the civilian wing formally licensing the military designs. This was ultimately all for naught, as the UEE government stepped into the debate with a surprising resolution: they actually favored the concept of supplying military-styled weaponry to civilians, especially on the distant frontiers. A home defense militia squadron of slightly-less-than-milspec but still fearsome Hornets, it was reasoned, would make a better deterrent than a squad of Drake Cutlasses. The process of civilianizing a design like the Hornet is more complex than it seems: UEE military secrecy laws mean that, on average, 60% of the hardware in a given spacecraft simply cannot be offered to the public. Some of these replacements — like milspec Gatling guns — would be expected and relatively easy to re-source in a modern modular design … but these requirements also govern systems as innocuous as rudder pedal boot locks or rubber cockpit sealing strips. Design teams must effectively work double-blind, replacing existing systems without being given access to their military equivalents.In some cases, designers must reconstruct subsystems based solely on publicly available holographs … while the team that designed the original systems operates next door, wholly unaware.

Civilianizing top-of-the-line military spacecraft is a frustrating process, but one that has proved ultimately valuable for Anvil: company profits rose 34% after the first civilian model Hornet (the F7C) was made available, with no perceptible tarnishing of the Anvil brand. Rather, the idea that you could own a “military” ship immediately became something of a status symbol, driving the resale value of Hornets and successive conversions; civilian Hornets have essentially (and unexpectedly) become a luxury brand. Anvil’s civilian equivalents sell both to actual paramilitary units on the frontier desperately in need of rugged hardware and to rich homeworlds industrialists who believe that flying a Hornet makes them top gun fighter pilots.

Terra, home of Anvil Aerospace. The Future
With both military and civilian spacecraft spending at an all-time high, Anvil’s prospects look bright. As the UEE continues to face off against a seemingly growing Vanduul threat, orders for Hornet space superiority fighters and Gladiator bombers continue to spike. Several thousand of each are delivered to front-line carriers every month, at a rate that continues to rise as additional factories can be brought online. On the civilian side, the Hornet is holding steady as the third best-selling single-seat spacecraft design available, trumped only by the Aurora and 300i.The recent civilian conversion of the Gladiator looks to be a similar success story, as the first model (Gladiator I) becomes available to the general public in the next three months.
Jeden Monat enthält die reine Abonnentenpublikation Jump Point Profile von Standorten und Unternehmen im Star Citizen-Universum. Abonnenten erhalten diese Berichte zuerst, mit einer allgemeinen Version weiter unten. Heute sind wir stolz darauf, den Artikel über Anvil Aerospace, den Konstrukteur des Hornet-Kampfjets, zu veröffentlichen. Der Jump Point dieses Monats, der am Freitag verfügbar ist, wird Profile von Roberts Space Industries und der Erde enthalten!

Anvil Aerospace ist eine der ersten Erfolgsgeschichten der Terraner. Gegründet im Jahr 2772, liefert Anvil seit fast zwei Jahrhunderten zuverlässig militärische Ausrüstung an die UEE-Marine. Die erste Anlage der Anvil Skunkworks befand sich in Nova Kyiv, Terra, und der Hauptsitz des Unternehmens befindet sich immer noch dort. In den ersten rund siebzig Jahren nach der Gründung von Anvil wurde jedes Designprojekt von Firmengründer J. Harris Arnold persönlich geleitet. Arnold, ein exzentrischer Raumfahrzeugdesigner der alten Schule, der darauf bestand, jeden Teil der Subsysteme seiner Entwürfe abzumelden, war eine beliebte Figur in einer ansonsten mörderischen Industrie... Heute verfügt Anvil über Fabriken in drei Dutzend UEE-Kernwelten..., bezieht aber weiterhin alle Systeme selbst und verlangt, dass der ständige CEO bei jeder Änderung der Raumfahrzeuge zustimmt.

Der Name des Unternehmens stammt aus einem Zitat in Robert Calvins berühmter früher Begründung für die UEE-Erweiterung und erklärt, dass Militärausgaben "die Öfen der Expansion befeuern und auf die Ambos der Innovation treffen". Das Unternehmen hat im Laufe der Jahre Dutzende erfolgreicher und legendärer militärischer Raumschiffe produziert, darunter Hurrikan, Osprey, Verwüster, Hornisse und Gladiator, und in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten wurde keine Militäraktion ohne Amboss gestartet, und kein Flugzeugträger im UEE-Raum operiert heute ohne mindestens eine Staffel von Amboss-Kampfjägern. Tatsächlich haben die Anvil-Designs in der Vergangenheit mehr Raum-zu-Raum-Kills erzielt als alle anderen militärischen Raumschiffe, insbesondere Hornets, mehr feindliche Hardware (gemessen in Sternenkernen) zerstört als alle anderen aktuellen Marine-Raumjäger, die zusammen entwickelt wurden.

Ziviles Handwerk

Die zivile Linie von Anvil ist relativ neu, eine Entscheidung, der viele Mitarbeiter des Unternehmens zunächst widerstanden haben. Der allgemeine Eindruck war, dass die Herstellung von zivilen Versionen spezieller militärischer Raumfahrzeuge die Marke verwässern würde: Die sorgfältig gehaltene Position des Ambosses als Spitze des Speeres wäre gefährdet. Die Debatte über das Thema wurde so langwierig, dass es drohte, das Unternehmen in zwei getrennte Gruppen aufzuteilen, wobei der zivile Flügel die militärischen Entwürfe offiziell genehmigte. Das war letztendlich alles umsonst, als die UEE-Regierung mit einer überraschenden Resolution in die Debatte eintrat: Sie befürworteten tatsächlich das Konzept der Lieferung von militärischen Waffen an Zivilisten, insbesondere an den fernen Grenzen. Eine Heimverteidigungs-Milizstaffel von etwas weniger als der Milspez, aber immer noch furchterregende Hornissen, so wurde argumentiert, würden eine bessere Abschreckung darstellen als eine Gruppe von Drake Entermessern. Der Prozess der Zivilisierung eines Designs wie der Hornet ist komplexer, als es scheint: Die militärischen Geheimhaltungsgesetze der UEE bedeuten, dass im Durchschnitt 60% der Hardware in einem bestimmten Raumschiff einfach nicht der Öffentlichkeit angeboten werden können. Einige dieser Ersatzteile - wie milspec Gatling Pistolen - wären zu erwarten und relativ einfach in einem modernen modularen Design zu beschaffen.... aber diese Anforderungen gelten auch für Systeme, die so harmlos sind wie Ruderpedal-Stiefelschlösser oder Gummicockpitdichtstreifen. In einigen Fällen müssen Designer Subsysteme rekonstruieren, die ausschließlich auf öffentlich zugänglichen Hologrammen basieren.... während das Team, das die ursprünglichen Systeme entworfen hat, nebenan arbeitet, völlig unbewusst.

Die Zivilisierung von militärischen Spitzen-Raumfahrzeugen ist ein frustrierender Prozess, der sich jedoch für Anvil als äußerst wertvoll erwiesen hat: Die Unternehmensgewinne stiegen um 34%, nachdem das erste zivile Modell Hornet (die F7C) zur Verfügung gestellt wurde, ohne dass die Marke Anvil spürbar anlaufen würde. Vielmehr wurde die Idee, dass man ein "militärisches" Schiff besitzen könnte, sofort zu einem Statussymbol, das den Wiederverkaufswert von Hornissen und aufeinanderfolgende Umbauten steigerte; zivile Hornissen sind im Wesentlichen (und unerwartet) zu einer Luxusmarke geworden. Die zivilen Äquivalente von Anvil verkaufen sich sowohl an tatsächliche paramilitärische Einheiten an der Grenze, die dringend robuste Hardware benötigen, als auch an reiche Industrielle aus der Heimat, die glauben, dass das Fliegen mit einer Hornet sie zu Top-Kampfpiloten macht.

Die Zukunft
Terra, die Heimat von Anvil Aerospace.
Da sowohl die Ausgaben für militärische als auch für zivile Raumfahrzeuge auf einem historischen Höchststand liegen, sehen die Aussichten von Anvil positiv aus. Während sich die UEE weiterhin gegen eine scheinbar wachsende Vanduul-Bedrohung wehrt, steigen die Bestellungen für Hornet-Weltraumüberlegenheitsjäger und Gladiator-Bomber weiter an. Mehrere tausend von ihnen werden jeden Monat an die Frontline Carrier geliefert, mit einer Geschwindigkeit, die weiter steigt, da zusätzliche Fabriken online gebracht werden können. Auf der zivilen Seite behauptet sich die Hornet als drittmeistverkaufte einsitzige Raumsonde, die nur von der Aurora und 300i übertroffen wird. Die jüngste zivile Umrüstung des Gladiators scheint eine ähnliche Erfolgsgeschichte zu sein, da das erste Modell (Gladiator I) in den nächsten drei Monaten der breiten Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung steht.
Every month, the subscriber-only Jump Point publication includes profiles of locations and companies in the Star Citizen universe. Subscribers recieve these reports first, with a general release further down the line. Today we’re proud to share the article on Anvil Aerospace, designer of the Hornet fighter. This month’s Jump Point, available Friday, will include profiles of Roberts Space Industries and Earth!

Anvil Aerospace is one of the earliest Terran success stories. Founded in 2772, Anvil has been reliably delivering military-grade equipment to the UEE Navy for almost two centuries. The initial Anvil skunkworks facility was located in Nova Kyiv, Terra, and the company’s headquarters are still there. For the first seventy-odd years of Anvil’s existence, every design project was personally lead by company founder J.Harris Arnold. Arnold, an eccentric spacecraft designer of the old school who insisted on signing off on every part of his designs’ subsystems, was a beloved figure in an otherwise cutthroat industry.Today, Anvil has factories on three dozen UEE core worlds … but continues to source all systems itself and requires that the standing CEO sign off on every spacecraft alteration.

The company’s moniker comes from a quote in Robert Calvin’s famous early justification for UEE expansion, explaining that military spending “fuels the furnaces of expansion and strikes the anvils of innovation.” There’s little argument: fueling the furnaces of expansion is exactly what Anvil has been doing since Day One.The company has produced dozens of successful and iconic military spacecraft over the years, including the Hurricane, Osprey, Devastator, Hornet and Gladiator.No military campaign in the last two centuries has been launched without Anvil spacecraft in the forefront, and no carrier in UEE space today operates without at least a squadron of Anvil-designed fighters. In fact, Anvil designs have historically scored more space-to-space kills than any other military spacecraft.Hornets, in particular, have destroyed more enemy hardware (measured in star credits) than all other current Navy space fighter designed combined.

Civilian Craft
Anvil’s civilian line is relatively new, a decision that many at the company initially resisted. The general feeling was that producing civilian grade versions of dedicated military spacecraft would dilute the brand: Anvil’s carefully maintained position as the tip of the spear would be in danger. Debate over the issue became so protracted that it threatened to split the company into two separate groups, with the civilian wing formally licensing the military designs. This was ultimately all for naught, as the UEE government stepped into the debate with a surprising resolution: they actually favored the concept of supplying military-styled weaponry to civilians, especially on the distant frontiers. A home defense militia squadron of slightly-less-than-milspec but still fearsome Hornets, it was reasoned, would make a better deterrent than a squad of Drake Cutlasses. The process of civilianizing a design like the Hornet is more complex than it seems: UEE military secrecy laws mean that, on average, 60% of the hardware in a given spacecraft simply cannot be offered to the public. Some of these replacements — like milspec Gatling guns — would be expected and relatively easy to re-source in a modern modular design … but these requirements also govern systems as innocuous as rudder pedal boot locks or rubber cockpit sealing strips. Design teams must effectively work double-blind, replacing existing systems without being given access to their military equivalents.In some cases, designers must reconstruct subsystems based solely on publicly available holographs … while the team that designed the original systems operates next door, wholly unaware.

Civilianizing top-of-the-line military spacecraft is a frustrating process, but one that has proved ultimately valuable for Anvil: company profits rose 34% after the first civilian model Hornet (the F7C) was made available, with no perceptible tarnishing of the Anvil brand. Rather, the idea that you could own a “military” ship immediately became something of a status symbol, driving the resale value of Hornets and successive conversions; civilian Hornets have essentially (and unexpectedly) become a luxury brand. Anvil’s civilian equivalents sell both to actual paramilitary units on the frontier desperately in need of rugged hardware and to rich homeworlds industrialists who believe that flying a Hornet makes them top gun fighter pilots.

Terra, home of Anvil Aerospace. The Future
With both military and civilian spacecraft spending at an all-time high, Anvil’s prospects look bright. As the UEE continues to face off against a seemingly growing Vanduul threat, orders for Hornet space superiority fighters and Gladiator bombers continue to spike. Several thousand of each are delivered to front-line carriers every month, at a rate that continues to rise as additional factories can be brought online. On the civilian side, the Hornet is holding steady as the third best-selling single-seat spacecraft design available, trumped only by the Aurora and 300i.The recent civilian conversion of the Gladiator looks to be a similar success story, as the first model (Gladiator I) becomes available to the general public in the next three months.

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