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Don't forget - a really large replicator is still just a transporter with a hard drive. Therefore, the finished item could be transported via the ship's transporter emitters.
(might take one bitch of a buffer...)
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Von Neumann, who, aside from coming up with those (worrisomely absent) machines is so important in the history of the medium at hand that he should probably get a holiday or a temple or something.
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I am looking at my DS9 TM, and yes, on page 63, it says, "Smaller, transportable units [industrial replicators]have been installed on starbases and fleet vessels and are used mainly to produce original and replacement hardware for space and planetary operations."
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