<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243986.msg12068302#msg12068302">Quote from: vanTheMad on 10-02-2016, 18:39:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I agree with Landshark on this one- I figure that starships are such a known quantity in the setting, that they've likely got a reasonable number of "plug and play" type parts. Bad alluvial dampener? Grab one out of storage and swap it out. Bad gravitic sensor? Get that thing into a repair shop ASAP, that's outside of an everyman's scope.<br/><br/>Tl;dr- Spacers probably have a rough idea of how to fix their ships when a unit goes bad (they make so many modifications on their ships) but unless they have engineering backgrounds, anything beyond little fixes probably needs an actual engineer.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Think of WWII pilots, or mech infantry, for example. A lot of things they couldn't fix...um...on the fly (sorry :D). Some they could. After all, duct tape was invented for the military to do field repairs on wheeled vehicles...