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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9382974" data-attributes="member: 18">This is a common thing in modern military procurement too - very contrary to in the 20th century, increasing numbers of machines used by modern Western militaries (or generally developed in the West) are designed to have short lifetimes before they require significant parts replacement, and those parts can only be replaced not by military-employed engineers, but civilian contractors who the companies who make the parts extremely expensively contract out to the militaries who bought their vehicles, weapons, etc.I don't think that is likely how things work right now or even in the past in Eberron, but one could easily seen a Bladerunner-esque scenario with future Warforged, or Warforged in a different setting, where they have parts that intentionally need replacement within single-digit years, and have to be replaced by an appropriately-trained and contracted guild/company artificer or the like, leading to desperation among Warforged, especially those who have broken away from their owners (I suspect there are quite a few SF novels with similar plotlines).</blockquote>