Deimos, the smaller outer moon of Mars, is the site of the primary shipyard serving the inner solar system by the late 21st century. Built up around Pobeda Station’s expanding industrial capacity, the Deimos yard produced Kuzmin Drive-equipped hulls — including transport haulers, Pathfinder Fleet vessels, and the first craft purchased in Ceres-issued shuǐpiào (2100). By 2101, Deimos supported a shipbuilding workforce of approximately 100.
In November 2100, Pathfinder Fleet Commander Rosalind Kovács cited Deimos’s shipbuilding capacity as evidence that the outer-system mission’s decades-long delay was a funding problem, not a technical one: “Deimos could have built half of this fleet twenty years ago if anyone had asked it to. Nobody asked.”
The Deimos yard’s effective monopoly on Kuzmin-equipped hulls persisted until 2122, when the Kuzmin Drive license was opened and independent forges and shipyards began emerging across the belt.