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Text replacement - "''Merchant''" to "''Merchant''"

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| image = Rashpur-Owens Incorporated logo.png
| founded = 2 January [[2698]]<ref name=MMp58>''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 58: "Corporations of the Capellan Confederation - [Rashpur-Owens Inc.]"</ref>
| dissolved =
| affiliation = [[Capellan Confederation]]
| previous_names =
| headquarters = Herald ([[Capella VII]])<ref name=H:HLp135>''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 135: "Rashpur-Owens Incorporated"</ref>
| leadership = [[CEO of Rashpur-Owens Incorporated|CEO]]
| products = {{Ubl|[[DropShip]]s|[[JumpShip]]s}}
| parent =
| divisions =
| plants =
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'''Rashpur-Owens Incorporated''' was a [[DropShip]] and [[JumpShip]] manufacturer based in the [[Capellan Confederation]].

==Overview==
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/>

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/>

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/>

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>

==Manufacturing==
Rashpur-Owens Incorporated has manufacturing centers on the following planets:

===Capella===
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>

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>

{|class="wikitable"
! 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>
|-
! width="350pt" | Component
! width="350pt" | Type
|-
| colspan="2" align="center " | DropShips
|-
| ''[[Achilles (DropShip class)|Achilles]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/>
| [[DropShip]]
|-
| ''[[Avenger]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/>
| DropShip
|-
| ''[[Excalibur (DropShip class)|Excalibur]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/><ref name=DS&JSp17/>
| DropShip
|-
| ''[[Lung Wang]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/>
| DropShip
|-
| [[Lung Wang#Variants|''Lung Wang'' Predator]]<ref name=XTRO:Lp12/>
| DropShip
|-
| ''[[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>
| DropShip
|-
| colspan="2" align="center " | JumpShips
|-
| ''[[Invader]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/>
| [[JumpShip]]
|-
| ''[[Merchant (JumpShip class)|Merchant]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/>
| JumpShip
|-
| ''[[Monolith]]''<ref name=O:CCp8/><ref name=H:HLp135/><ref name=OR143/>
| JumpShip
|-
| colspan="2" align="center " | [[Interplanetary Drive - DropShip]]
|-
| [[Delano 1070]]
| ''Triumph''<ref name=OR143/>
|-
| [[GM9800i]]
| ''Avenger''<ref name=OR143/>
|-
| [[GM 48000]]
| ''Excalibur''<ref name=OR143/>
|-
| [[Xevec-19]]
| ''Lung Wang''{{cn}}
|-
| [[Xevec-12s]]
| ''Achilles''{{cn}}
|-
| colspan="2" align="center " | [[Kearny-Fuchida Drive - JumpShip]]
|-
| [[KF Mark V]]
| ''Merchant''<ref name=OR143/>
|-
| [[KF Mark VIIa]]
| ''Invader''<ref name=OR143/>
|-
| [[KF Mark X]]
| ''Monolith''<ref name=OR143/>
|}

==References==
<references />

==Bibliography==
{{div col|colwidth=25em}}
* ''[[BattleSpace]]''
* ''[[DropShips and JumpShips]]''
* ''[[Experimental Technical Readout: Liao]]''
* ''[[Field Report: CCAF]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers]]''
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
* ''[[Objectives: Capellan Confederation]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3057]]''
{{div col end}}

[[Category:Manufacturing Centers|Rashpur-Owens Incorporated]]
[[Category:Capellan Confederation Corporations]]
[[Category:Shipyards]]

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