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Reliable Machinery

Submitted by maz on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 14:00

Even taking into account time dilation this stardrive engine was several hundred years old. Every few decades the propulsion team would be woken from stasis with some minor fault that the shipboard systems would be unable to automatically repair. The designers of this particular type of engine, realising that repairs might need to take place lightyears from major facilities, had built them to be maintainable with even the lowest grades of technology.

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