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>>9585722

>This thread

But seriously, think about this for a second. It's probably more efficient to have one set of thrusters and some gyros than it is to have six sets.

With six, you have three-five sets of engines that you're not using at any point in time, so you'd need much more energy to move around all that extra mass. In both modern aircraft and watercraft, the engine(s) are almost always the most massive parts of the vehicle, meaning that you're potentially doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling the mass of your ship, which defeats the purpose of having six sets in the first place- Quick acceleration.