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'''Rashpur-Owens Incorporated''' is a [[DropShip]] and [[JumpShip]] manufacturer based in the [[Capellan Confederation]].
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| founded = 2 January [[2698]]<ref name=MMp58>''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 58: "Corporations of the Capellan Confederation - [Rashpur-Owens Inc.]"</ref>
 
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| affiliation = [[Capellan Confederation]]
 
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| headquarters = Herald ([[Capella VII]])<ref name=H:HLp135>''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 135: "Rashpur-Owens Incorporated"</ref>
 
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| leadership = [[CEO of Rashpur-Owens Incorporated|CEO]]
 
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| products = {{Ubl|[[DropShip]]s|[[JumpShip]]s}}
 
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'''Rashpur-Owens Incorporated''' was a [[DropShip]] and [[JumpShip]] manufacturer based in the [[Capellan Confederation]].
 
  
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==Overview==
 
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Founded 2 January [[2698]], Rashpur-Owens Incorporated was the only functional orbital construction yard capable of building [[JumpShip]]s left in the Confederation after the devastation of the early [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]].<ref name=MMp58/><ref name="HB:HLp71">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 71: "Capella"</ref> Based out of the former [[Delhi WarShips]] facilities on [[Capella]],<ref name=BSp28>''BattleSpace'', p. 28: "JumpShips and WarShips"</ref> while its survival and continued production were a symbol of Capellan pride, the decrepit and disintegrating yards earned the derisive nickname of the "Citizen's Crutch" due to the cost of producing a mere handful of completed ships being far beyond the marked-up prices involved in purchasing vessels built in other realms.<ref name=MMp58/><ref name=H:HLp135/>
 
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This changed after [[Riley Doh]] rose to chairmanship of the company in [[3051]]. A self-made man who earned his [[Capellan Citizenship|citizenship]] by working in the yards, Doh used the small amount of free capital available and every scrap of [[LosTech|FoundTech]] he could get his hands on to upgrade the yards, doubling production by [[3056]]. Using backchannel deals and every favor possible, he got RO selected as the site for the production of the new ''[[Lung Wang]]'' and secured plans and molds to produce the deadly ''[[Achilles (DropShip class)|Achilles]]''.<ref name=MMp58/><ref name=H:HLp135/> The Rashpur-Owens yards at Capella were responsible for the design and production of the first interplanetary drives to be used in the [[Free Worlds League]] [[WarShip]] program which built the ''[[Impavido]]''-class destroyers during this era, before much of that production shifted to support the Confederation's own WarShip program. The Capella yards helped support the yards at [[Necromo]] as the produced the ''[[Feng Huang]]''-class cruiser.<ref name="HB:HLp71"/> The reconstruction of the Rashpur-Owens WarShip slips at Capella were a jointly funded effort between the [[Capellan Confederation]] and the [[Free Worlds League]].<ref name=BSp28/>
 
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Immediately prior to the [[Jihad]], RO's successes allowed it to secure supplementary contracts for the [[Necromo Shipyards]] in [[3066]] and Doh was lobbying for a license to produce the [[Defiance (Aerospace Fighter class)|''Defiance'']] [[OmniFighter]] in [[3068]].<ref name=MMp58/>
 
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During the Jihad, the [[Necromo Shipyards]] were destroyed, and analysts believe that RO will abandon their effort to rebuild the interplanetary WarShip drive facility that was moved to the Necromo system. The [[Word of Blake]]'s expertise was required to get the facility running in the first place, and with that expertise no longer available, the drive facility is simply a money sink.<ref name=O:CCp8>''Objectives: Capellan Confederation'', p. 8: "Rashpur-Owens Inc."</ref> By [[3081]] the Confederation was still refusing to admit that it could no longer produce WarShips, but it had become increasingly obvious that there was no way that Rashpur-Owens could reproduce or retro-engineer the technical knowledge to build WarShip drives, and would instead be limited to trying to repair and maintain the few WarShips still left in the Capellan navy.<ref name="J:FRp101">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 101: "Capellan Commonality"</ref>
 
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==Manufacturing==
 
 
Rashpur-Owens Incorporated has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
 
Rashpur-Owens Incorporated has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
  
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===Capella===
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=== Capella ===
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The Capellan facility suffered no losses of capital and personnel in the Jihad and had a production volume of 80% in [[3079]].<ref name=O:CCp3>''Objectives: Capellan Confederation'', p. 3: "State of the Industry at a Glance (Dec 3079)"</ref>
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Components produced on [[Capella]]:
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The company was by 3079 in the midst of a crash construction program to try and build repair docks for the Confederation's remaining [[WarShip]]s.<ref>''Field Report: CCAF'', p. 6: "No Port to Call Home"</ref>
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! colspan="2" |Components produced on Capella:<ref name=OR143>''Objective Raids'', p. 143: "Produced Rashpur-Owens Components"</ref><ref name=XTRO:Lp12>''Experimental Technical Readout: Liao'', p. 12: "Produced Experimental Lung Wang Ship variant"</ref>
 
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! width="350pt" | Component
 
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! width="350pt" | Type
 
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| colspan="2"  align="center " | <u>DropShips</u>
 
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| ''[[Achilles (DropShip class)|Achilles]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/>
 
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| [[DropShip]]
 
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| ''[[Avenger]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/>
 
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| DropShip
 
 
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| ''[[Excalibur (DropShip class)|Excalibur]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/><ref name=DS&JSp17/>
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| [[Achilles]]
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| DropShip
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| [[Dropships]]
 
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| ''[[Lung Wang]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/>
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| [[Avenger]]
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| DropShip
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| [[Dropships]]
 
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| [[Lung Wang#Variants|''Lung Wang'' Predator]]<ref name=XTRO:Lp12/>
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| [[Excalibur]]
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| DropShip
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| [[Dropships]]
 
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| ''[[Triumph]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/><ref name=DS&JSp17>''DropShips and JumpShips: ComStar Intelligence Summary'', p. 17</ref>
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| [[Lung Wang]]
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| DropShip
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| [[Dropships]]
 
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| colspan="2"  align="center " | <u>JumpShips</u>
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| [[Triumph]]
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| [[Dropships]]
 
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| ''[[Invader]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/>
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| [[Invader]]
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| [[JumpShip]]
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| [[JumpShips]]
 
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| ''[[Merchant]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/>
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| [[Merchant]]
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| JumpShip
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| [[JumpShips]]
 
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| ''[[Monolith]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/>
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| [[Monolith]]
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| JumpShip
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| [[JumpShips]]
 
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| colspan="2"  align="center " | <u>[[Interplanetary Drive - DropShip]]</u>
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| Delano 1070
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| [[Interplanetary Drive - Dropships]]
 
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| [[Delano 1070]]
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| GM9800i
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| ''Triumph''<ref name=OR143/>
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| [[Interplanetary Drive - Dropships]]
 
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| [[GM9800i]]
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| Xevec-19
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| ''Avenger''<ref name=OR143/>
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| [[Interplanetary Drive - Dropships]]
 
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| [[GM 48000]]
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| Xevex-12
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| ''Excalibur''<ref name=OR143/>
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| [[Interplanetary Drive - Dropships]]
 
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| [[Xevec-19]]
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| KF Mark V
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| ''Lung Wang''{{cn}}
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| [[Kearny-Fuchida Drive - Jumpships]]
 
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| [[Xevec-12s]]
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| KF Mark VIIa
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| ''Achilles''{{cn}}
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| [[Kearny-Fuchida Drive - Jumpships]]
 
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| colspan="2"  align="center " | <u>[[Kearny-Fuchida Drive - JumpShip]]</u>
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| KF Mark X
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| [[Kearny-Fuchida Drive - Jumpships]]
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| [[KF Mark V]]
 
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| ''Merchant''<ref name=OR143/>
 
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| [[KF Mark VIIa]]
 
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| ''Invader''<ref name=OR143/>
 
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| [[KF Mark X]]
 
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| ''Monolith''<ref name=OR143/>
 
 
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==References==
 
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<references />
 
  
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==Bibliography==
 
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{{div col|colwidth=25em}}
 
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* ''[[BattleSpace]]''
 
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* ''[[DropShips and JumpShips]]''
 
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* ''[[Experimental Technical Readout: Liao]]''
 
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* ''[[Field Report: CCAF]]''
 
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* ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]''
 
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* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
 
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* ''[[Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers]]''
 
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* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
 
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* ''[[Objectives: Capellan Confederation]]''
 
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* ''[[Technical Readout: 3057]]''
 
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[[Category:Manufacturing Centers|Rashpur-Owens Incorporated]]
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[[Category:Capellan Confederation Corporations]]
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[[Category:Manufacturing Centers]]

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