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While this class is publicly dismissed as just a bunch of one-off projects serving local routes, in truth this is a vital tool of the Imperial bureaucracy, and design efforts that look likely to create another Jumpmax get coopted, their results muddled (thus the official confusion between whether they would have made a new design or just another Jumpmax) and the designers paid off (quite often including [[Knight|knighting]] if the lead personnel are not already nobles, making them among the group of people who make use of jump-6 couriers on the Imperium's behalf anyway). See [[Express Boat/secret]] for more details on how Jumpmaxes are used.
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While this class is publicly dismissed as just a bunch of one-off projects serving local routes, in truth this is a vital tool of the Imperial bureaucracy, and design efforts that look likely to create another Jumpmax get coopted, their results muddled (thus the official confusion between whether they would have made a new design or just another Jumpmax) and the designers paid off (quite often including [[Knight|knighting]] if the lead personnel are not already nobles, making them among the group of people who make use of jump-6 couriers on the Imperium's behalf anyway).
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See [[Express Boat/secret]] for more details on how the Jumpmax class and similar ships are used.

Revision as of 01:56, 17 February 2020

While this class is publicly dismissed as just a bunch of one-off projects serving local routes, in truth this is a vital tool of the Imperial bureaucracy, and design efforts that look likely to create another Jumpmax get coopted, their results muddled (thus the official confusion between whether they would have made a new design or just another Jumpmax) and the designers paid off (quite often including knighting if the lead personnel are not already nobles, making them among the group of people who make use of jump-6 couriers on the Imperium's behalf anyway).

See Express Boat/secret for more details on how the Jumpmax class and similar ships are used.