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Spacecraft: Dropships - Making planetary invasion fast, easy and fun. The humble dropship, a staple of science fiction, and the go-to for when you need to get a lot of manpower from space down to whatever world their invading. They're way overworked, constantly being shot at, and have a...

Does Inequality Only Ever Get Worse? Basically, equality is acquired with access to energy. Since, the Imperium has cheap and, for all intents and purposes, endless energy through fusion reactors, all Citizens will have a level economic playing field. Old money remains old, and money, if...

Spacecraft: Atmospheric Reentry and Heat Shields 1. Indications are that for the one tonne turret, you can utilize the totality of their listed volume. 2. Actually, more considering that as long as you have installed a missile launcher, and a sand caster, you can add in another tonne's worth...

As I recall, I'd say it would be strategic surprise, a willingness to sacrifice assets whose loyalty was considered dubious, and MacArthur.

I was under the impression, units are tonnage dependent, and it would be percentage times hull tonnage. If we take the hull tonnage of two hundred, forty percent actually would be eighty units.

We can pay overtime. Though, I'd be a little surprised if they didn't have three shifts to begin with.

Spacecraft: Atmospheric Reentry and Heat Shields V. One possible option, is to sacrifice a hardpoint, or, more likely, two, and install the drives into turrets. W. Or, inflated turrets, at six tonnes and budgetted. X. According to High Guard, a missile barbette has five launchers, and twenty...

Above fifty kilotonnes, you're allowed to modularize. Send the low value ended components to the the shipyards with the cheapest bids, keep the high value added component manufacture for yourself, and assemble the whole in a starport/alpha.

That would be up to the writers, to drop breadcrumbs that all is not well in the Imperium, and some more higher up, to spell it out as to what that could be due to. There's always a question as to why empires fall, and usually it's due to external pressure, and internal weakness.

Pin down the system, and the starport, you want to apply this to. Then, look around it's operating environment. If it's in the middle of a trade route, large population, and has a lot of traffic, the capacity and facilities would be at the high end. Find a reason why it isn't rated Alpha or...

It's about as generic as The Long Night, considering the scale. While local economies could be exuberant, the Imperium's as a whole might be experiencing a depression, possibly because of having to pay for their defence budget.

The words average, vary, and considerably, give permission to scale the starport facilities and capacity up or down.

Well, one would suppose that one needs data delivered in a form that is easily digestible. Before being thrown into the Deep and the Dark end.

I'd check on how the economy's doing.