First, allow me to thank Steve for creating this beautiful, elegant simulator/game and for sharing it with us.
I'm currently into the 60th year of my first experiment. My Empire consists of 15 populated colonies and growing, spread among numerous star systems. I've got so much stuff going on, that it's sometimes hard to keep up; so much fun.
To this point I have not experienced combat other than ground based (by design), but have a military (~13333 km/s) and have now begun to add carriers and fighters (~25000 km/s) to my fleet. My first carriers are still under construction, but I have many fighters in a comfy Earth based hangar awaiting deployment.
I mistakenly started building fighters before my hangars were ready and they suffered some maintenance failures. However, I can not figure out how to repair my fighters that are armed with AS missiles and full of fuel.
Can this be done?