Weird-Field Shipyards (book excerpt) (Patreon)

In the early days of this new Weird-Field World, nearly all of the new spaceships were built at UN sanctioned shipyards. Countries bid for the rights to build ships, in a similar way that they’d bid to host an Olympic Games or a Football World Cup. Revenue earned from the licences was ploughed back in to research on Weird-Field Physics and possible applications.

The first UN shipyards were built at Dresden, Atlanta, Yekatarinburg, Guangzhou, and Belo Horizonte. Bloemfontein swiftly followed. 

Private enterprise was quick to want in on the promises of the new technology, and brand new companies were formed to bid for instruction sets, and existing corporations pivoted to focus on WF Physics and tech.

Swift Space, OUT, WFantastic, Weirlein, and McQue were among the first new companies to seek to profit from the alien instructions. Saab, Husqvarna, Toyota-Honda, BASF, Novartis, DowDuPont, Caterpillar, and Mitsubishi were some of the manufacturing giants that directed huge amounts of money (often straight to the pockets of politicians) in to the new materials and chemical sciences that were a bi-product of spaceship building.

Within a couple of decades there were over thirty companies either building spaceships, or building new business on the back of WF discoveries.