By then the inclusion of a foundry section on each ship was too expensive and mass production had begun on other designs intended as straight warships, or with more storage space for repair and supplies. Designation: Tristar-class Super Dimensional Heavy Cruiser (SCB), Argonaut-class Super Dimensional Heavy Battlecruiser (SBH) Names and disposition: Tristar-class names and dispositions These ships were built at the Robotech Factory Satellite (a.k.a Space Station Equality), and after 2023 at Moon Base Luna and entered service from 2015 through. While most of the original production run were destroyed the Union continued producing these ships up until the First Faction war. With a small fleet of these ships it was possible to build and defend entire new shipyards or keep fleets in operation with repairs and supplies much as the Terran Anchorage class did. Built in secret while the Terran civil war drew the attention of the Ruling House, the new Champion class had weaponry to rival any heavy cruiser and carried it's own large scale manufacturing and foundry sections.
Long determined to break free of the stranglehold held on their society by the hundreds of Dominion Houses, the Kavarians that would eventually rise up and form the Union needed a powerful military.
