Lamborghini Astronavi

Lamborghini Astronavi S.p.A. was a manufacturer of starships based on Earth.
==Background==
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Lamborghini Trattori was the first company founded by Ferruccio Lamborghini, and it produced tractors for the postwar Italian market. However, in 1972 he sold the company to rival manufacturer , which later became .
As humanity turned to the stars, SDF Group adopted a strategy of locally producing tractors under brand names that would be familiar to the colonists; for example, colonies with a large German population would produce Deutz-Fahr and HürlimannSomewhat ironically, as Hürlimann was originally a Swiss company. tractors, while Italian colonies would produce SAME and Lamborghini Trattori tractors. To avoid cannibalizing their market share, it was decided that the SAME and Hürlimann brands would be attached to smaller tractors while larger tractors would be branded under the Deutz-Fahr and Lamborghini Trattori brands. In 2450, it was decided that Deutz-Fahr and Lamborghini would expand into the production of agricultural ships designed to ferry crops back and forth from the Outer Colonies, and Lamborghini Astronavi was bornDeutz-Fahr did not create a specifically-named subsidiary branch for the production of starships as Lamborghini did..
When the broke out, Lamborghini Astronavi facilities were repurposed for wartime purposes. They largely built components and subassemblies; for example, most of the hydrogen fuel tanks for large UNSC ships were produced by Lamborghini Astronavi. However, the facility on the Inner Colony of Verona was occasionally used to produce UNSC frigates under license; by war's end it had produced 15 and 11 . Meanwhile, a small team of the company's designers were secretly drawing up plans to produce their own military frigate; company management were unaware that the project existed until the team informed them of it in 2551.
Verona was one of the colonies the Covenant "skipped" on the way to Reach, and therefore survived the war without being glassed. After the war, the Verona plant retooled and the company unveiled its frigate in 2554.
==Products==
*Pleiades-class frigate (2554)
==Notes==