That project faced opposition from fledgling trade consortia as well as internal dissent within the merchant families. They hired terraformers to change the planet Kuat in the Core Worlds into a paradise world while engineers designed and built the first six of many orbital shipyard complexes. These merchants, led by the Kuat family, joined together with the intent to create the largest, most efficient shipyard in the galaxy.
Kuat Drive Yards was founded in the early days of the Galactic Republic by a group of Human aristocrats known as the Ten.
' Since the dawn of the Republic, Kuat Drive Yards has been the exclusive supplier of many of our greatest warships.' ―Fleet Admiral Aygo
