Jack of Harts

Torchdale was the primary fleet base in Sunnydale during our buildup for the attack on the Hyades Cluster. She’s a gas giant with three major moons, dozens of minor ones, and a veritable motherlode of heavy metals and other fun stuff that starships love to munch on when they’re feeling peckish. There were always ships coming by for a quick topping off of their raw or refined material storage. Many smaller ships chose to go atmospheric diving to pick stuff out of Torch’s upper atmosphere, and many more had to than wanted to. We had the best refineries on Torch’s moons, but were still tapping out their ability to keep up with the demands of a fleet full of fabricators at full production. It takes a lot of heavy metals to build the kind of spare armor plates, replacement fighters, and extra missile reloads a fleet expects to expend during a major offensive, and we were burning though them at an impressive rate. Very few systems could have handled that demand. Sunnydale did.