[enriquto]

> Our current design is capable of just over 1 year of continuous propulsive operation.

> (...) would likely drain a significant amount of life out of the Droid on a single mission

These two sentences are contradictory.

Unless by "continuous propulsive operation" you mean something that is, confusingly, not continuous propulsive operation.

[zamadatix]

They are not contradictory you've just removed the context explaining why they wouldn't put said inefficient thing in a mission plan. There are plenty of objects to clean up without having to shift your orbital inclination so drastically.

[curtainsforus]

Unless it's using a low-thrust-high-efficiency drive such that significant inclination changes take a year.

[mrlowlevel]

Unless of course the maneuver takes a significant part of a year