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. Where the cargo hold would be on a normal ship is the landing module. They cut the cargo hold out, leaving the supports and ductwork that connects the engines at the rear of the command module to the bridge. The 'legs' hold the landing module on during flight. When we orbit the planet, the landing module disconnects, drops to the planet's surface."
"The landing module has no maneuvering controls, no way to fly itself, huh?" Harry asked, regarding the drop ship with interest.
"It has inertial nullifiers," Jamil responded, adding with a grin, "That's so you don't end up as space mush plastered on the ceiling when you land. Even so, it's pretty rough. We call the ride down the 'elevator to hell.' The landing module's intended for ground-based deployment. Like I told Xris earlier, the landing module normally houses a mission command bunker and a bay holding small armored attack vehicles. Our Special Forces unit was moving on the ground less than five minutes after touchdown. Once the mission is complete, the blast rockets under the landing module fire, lift the module into orbit. We rendezvous with the command module, reattach."
Harry was giving the drop ship the once-over. "Not much in the way of weapons. Why's that? You Army guys working in favor of gun control?"
"The command module has special intruder shields," Jamil said. "A destroyer could blow up a ship that size with one lascannon tied behind its back, to quote friend Tycho
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