Onboard fabrication does not eliminate magazine discipline

The allied battlecruisers fire a salvo every twenty-two seconds and rapidly consume a large share of their missile stocks. Their fabrication shops carry critical components and can manufacture new missile bodies from raw material, while shipboard power can charge newly assembled positron warheads. That theoretical abundance does not solve the immediate logistics problem because replacing half the magazines would take about a week. The admiral therefore orders a ceasefire after twenty salvos, demonstrating that manufacturing capability expands endurance only when the operational timetable allows replenishment time. When a subordinate raises the constraint, the admiral admits that she had forgotten the Imperial ships' smaller magazines.