Solitude Orbital

Solitude Orbital was federalized from Vulcan High Command in 2324.

Solitude Orbital is a tiny shipyard orbiting the major Vulcan colony world of Solitude, located in the far rimward part of the Romulan Border Zone. In fact, it is technically closer to Klingon space than it is to Romulan space. At only 500kt, Solitude is the smallest berth Starfleet operates and is unable to build any Starfleet military grade designs. It was federalized more for reasons of strategic security than ship-building. As Solitude is first in line on a potential invasion path for both the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire, Starfleet determined that the orbital would have to be tightly integrated with the rest of the system's security. That this involved taking over a small starship construction berth was almost incidental.

As of 2325, Solitude Orbital has:
 * One 500kt berth

Despite being of a size suitable only for building auxiliary ships (and not all of them), Solitude remains directly under Shipyard Operations Command rather than being part of Auxiliary Command. Whether to take the plunge and move it to Auxiliary Command or commence a project to expand the berth to 1mt and allow it to build a greater range of ships has been much debated. In the meantime, Admiral Lathriss keeps the berth busy building cargo ships.