Wasn't this all hashed out in older threads? The fact that "Mars shipyard" doesn't necessarily mean a shipyard on Mars, ditto Gashidda, ditto Vlandian, etc.?
Anyway, the
Kinunir-class can't be a Marches-only design because the Imperium gave one to the Vegans and another appears in a
TNE novel featuring the RCES. The suggestion that the Imperium transferred two of them 270 parsecs or so from the Marches to the Rim and Old Expanses seems too much to swallow. Changing sectors in one thing, crossing the Imperium is another - especially when a marginal design is involved. While the transfer story doesn't pin down what planet/system the cruiser was built in, is does point to a region where it was built.
Accordingly Yard 17, which built the
Regal Splendor, the ex-
Shuruppak, is somewhere on the Rim. That places the five other Yard 17 built
Kinunirs on the Rim too;
Enki Kalamma, Markashi, Agidda, Luuru, and
Ukushki Sar.
The first Yard 17 build on the
AHL list is
Bard Endeavor and she was lost during the Battle of Kagukhasaggan during - drum roll please - the Solomani Rim War. Four others hulls in the
AHL-class were also built at Yard 17.
Eight other
AHL hulls get a paragraph in Supplement 5, six of which become scenarios in the
AHL games. Those paragraphs point to the region where they were built and checking their yards with the yards listed for other ships gives us regions nearly all.
Again, I didn't come up with this. I just remember reading about it in an earlier thread. The links between hulls, yards, known events, and dispositions lets you narrow yard locations down to at least sectors.
I also remember that Markatch, which
One Thousand Years passed over on her first flight, has to be a city or region because there's no planet with that name!
