During prolonged Task Force Training another part of one my ship broke.
A Owen Engineering 144 EP Nuclear Pulse Engine on Stevenstone has suffered a maintenance failure.
Insufficient maintenance supplies were available to effect a repair.
(Cost of repair: 64,8. Available maintenance supplies: 29).
As Stevenstone has slowed to 1 km/s due to damage, it has been detached from FF Stevenstone - Flock 01.
OK, the only engine is broken and we need more maintenance supply points. Being the lead ship of its class it was the oldest one.
So I looked around and these are the possibilities. Am I right?
- Scrap - Delete her TG, thus deleting her too. Build new one.
- Autorepair - Let her repair herself. Damage control ship component can speed the process. For that it would apparently need twice as many MSP than is the cost of maintaince in case of failure.
- Shipyard repair - Shipyards can repair broken components, using minerals. To get it faster to shipyard one could also use a tug boat.
- Hangar repair - Hangars and boat bays can repair docked ships using carriers pool of MSP. In versions 7.1+ doesn't work in PDCs.
Autorepair would be best but summary from class design says
Maint Life 2.26 Years MSP 123 AFR 98% IFR 1.4% 1YR 33 5YR 488 Max Repair 64.8 MSP
So even though I have flagged this class as "Supply ship" in the Class design which allowed other ships from her flock to resupply her - so FF Stevenstone is now at 123/123 MSP - it can't repair itself because Stevenstone class does not have enough storage for 2x64.8 = 129.6 points. It would be good if this was actually noted in the event report...
Managing to get anywhere with its pitiful 1km/s speed and land there would be problematic. As FF Stevenstone broke in the area of asteroid belt behind Mars I may help her to catch any body if I just turn the rotation of asteroid in game settings. Then I could ship minerals and constructors to that asteroid, make a shipyard and... eh too much for one ship.
I don't posses tech needed for tugging yet.
So it seems to me from all those options I the most viable is to design and build a ship with enough hangar space and go collect poor FF Stevenstone. Or?