If each breakaway section has at least ten tonnes, you can stick a firmpoint on it.

This could exceed the metaship's theoretical maximum, but each breakaway section is considered on it's own, not as part of a whole.

That's why we had alphabet drives and preconfigured hulls.

The Dungeon Master can demonstrate flexibility on this issue, but be subsequently consistent.

We're sort of swept away by The Pirates of the Caribbean, which takes place at best towards the end of the golden age of piracy.

Piracy usually takes place where governments cannot or will not project their naval power.

Further East;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2lhxUqMMQ

Engineering is the big ticket item for commercial shipping, everything else can be compromised and ameliorated.

Even life support.

And the expense of life support is the actual issue.

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For the Nerigo, and basically other unpowered lifts, useful when the electricity fails onboard ship.

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Usually it comes down to disruption of commerce, insurance rates going up, and the shipping companies lobbying Parliament. Then if the Navy starts looking for live fire exercise opportunities, especially during those times they aren't being bored anchored in front of enemy ports. If pirates become t...

1. Requires planning, which sort would preclude claiming spontaneous support. 2. I'm pretty sure the Confederation Navy could do it, since their ships are designed to accommodate oversized complements (or should), and then they can implement Terra Expresses. 3. You could predeploy troopsicle transpo...

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Ideal would remain orks, with a gretchin service corps and auxiliary.

Cables and nets don't take up much actual volume when unfurled.

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If that's the case, I\d want something cheaper to jettison.

How about letting the hydrogen turn to plasma, and dumping that.

Or better still, expelling it towards some ship currently in your way. Sort of a reverse fusion rocket.

That heat has to go somewhere, and dumping it back into the boiler seems the most useful use of it. If less heat is recycled than produced, that works out quite well as well. As regards radiators, try string theory, or cable, by trailing cables a couple of miles connected to nets that dispose of tha...

Forty Kay sort of deals with it, especially the Imperial Guard, and if you think about it, Orks. You make equipment robust and idiot proof, and in the case of lasguns, cuts logistics in half. If it turns out you're more dangerous to your squadmates than the enemy, natural selection will take care of...

You'll need someone with some coordination capability to supervise, to avoid repetition or getting into each other's way.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/PWR_nuclear_power_plant_diagram.svg/800px-PWR_nuclear_power_plant_diagram.svg.png Substitute heat sink for reactor, and manual flush for control rods. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThDBU7Ld0oPrEBTwKa-DcuDvf6rHc6JoNcpV...

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