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A Shooting Star (Rillisliddian) is a specially designed craft used by the Eldar to ferry Swooping Hawk Aspect Warriors onto a planetary battlefield. Technically, these ships are not dropships as they do not drop to a planetary surface. Instead, they briefly enter a planet's atmosphere where they remain undetected due to a complex cloaking system that masks them from enemy scans. Once in the atmosphere, their cargo hold of soldiers free fall to the surface where they make use of their jump packs to control and slow their descent to the ground. Upon completion of their troop deployment, the Shooting Star troop carriers return to their Craftworld.[1]

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