11. "RE: BPGD: Napoleon-class tank"
In response to message #10
Indeed. Back during Rite of Passage, Asrial unloads the as-yet-shown (and probably imagined) "smallest photon torpedo", which comes in the form of the Thunderbolt round. At a quarter-mil sal-creds (at the time, who knows what it'd run in the 25th), cost was definitely an issue. And I don't think there was much left of the middle of the grand entrance hall after that (and the foyer collapsed as well...).
-Droken
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