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Origins:
Pravda Heavy Industries [PHI] was founded on the asteroid belts near the star Betelgeuse, and initially started off as a small engineering group. Originally wanting to join up with a group of pirates while passing through, the founders were suprised to find out that piracy in the sector had dwindled due to a lack of skilled mechanics to maintain their ships. So, instead of joining up with a group, they started going around fixing and improving pirate ships in the area, doing so under the name "Pravda".
As piracy started picking up again, so too did their income, which led to the creation of Pravda's very own shipyard near the red star, as well as rebranding to PHI.

The pirates they had helped in the past would visit the shipyard for new ships, repairs and refits, effectively protecting the area from law enforcement and trespassing pirates, making for a safe haven for locals. These days, PHI offers its services to anyone willing to pay, but clients are generally still pirates, with smaller and private military corporations also requesting ships at times.

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PHI Ships:
Large ships released under the PHI banner generally have a bow that looks like the head of an animal, primarily taking inspiration from aquatic and mythological
creatures. Furthermore, ships are divided into one of two production types; Standard and Special.
The Standard type ships are meant to be easy to build, or even printed, and feature as little subgrids as possible.
The Special type ships on the other hand are allowed to have as much subgrids and features as is necessary to reach a certain vision, even though survival buildability and combat capability might suffer from it.

Small ships have widely varying designs, sometimes also making use of creatures for inspiration.
They also fall into the same production types as large ships, with the vehicles that are part of the Standard type being made to fit within a 2x3x6 block area for printing.
Ships of the Special type generally make use of subgrids or are too large to fit within a printer.

Colour schemes for ships vary, although a red and grey one is generally used for spacecraft.
A separate testing area has been set up containing the subgrids of most of the currently released ships.

Outdated ships are moved to the PHI - Decommissioned collection. If a ship is moved here, chances are that a heavily improved version is on the way.

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Current Projects:

• Update older workshop ships to new standards
  
• Finish up bomber and release on the workshop
  
• Make encounter mod versions of ships
  
• Update subgrid collection

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Future Projects:

• Update Admiral Hipper-Class to the hull of the Prinz Eugen
  
• Update Mako Gunboat
  
• Make torpedo boats and missile boats
  
• Make two new frigate classes
  
• Make logistics ships
  
• Create separate destroyers based on the Gnevny's capabilities, as well as a successor to the Gnevny
  
• Finish Graf Zeppelin-Class supercarrier

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Finished Projects:

• Make a carrier meant for small large grids, large small grids and mixed grids
  
• Update old Gnevny to the hull of the Gnevny II
  
• Release updated Gnevny on the workshop
  
• Bring Graf Spee-Class in line with newer ships and release on the workshop
  
• Rework Nideggen-Class frigates
  
• Add all released ships to a collection

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