Andromeda's ability to rebuild herself from asteroid resources makes her a mobile industrial base. Nova bombs are recalled as the principal exception to what she could reproduce, which explains the crew's later efforts to acquire them. The panel disagrees over whether expending all forty at the beginning was necessary. One objection is that fewer should have achieved the objective, while the reply points out that the fictional mechanism is insufficiently explained to rule out the black hole's gravity requiring the full salvo. Removing the stock also serves a storytelling purpose by denying the crew a ready superweapon for later problems.
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Andromeda's self-repair still leaves a weapons-supply constraint
Andromeda can rebuild much of herself, but the inability to replace Nova bombs creates a supply limit and a disputed decision over expending her original stock.