Hullo,

I'm not exactly sure how you guys set up your engineering sections, so my apologies if it's ended up in the wrong mailbox. My name's Sarah, Sarah McFarlen if you're in the market for last names, or Sparks if you're not. You see, I've been helping out the Widerstand in Rheinland with maintaining their ship stores, and I was hoping you might be able to help out. Not generally, but just with your ships, since I've er, run across some problems trying to figure it out on my own.

Namely, they keep on exploding.

Constantly. I try to remove the wrong hull panel, explosion. Unscrew an engine bay? Explosion. Replace a damaged module. Explosion. Empty the shipboard latrine. Explosion (and no, I'd really prefer not to talk about that one, thanks). I'm sure you get the idea. It's not just explosives. I'm pretty sure an Insurgent tried to gas the engineering bay when I tried reprogrammed the cockpit display to track for Lugers instead of Kalashnikovs.

Is there some trick I'm missing here? Some code I need to enter, or an order I should follow when I'm working on these things? I mean, they're fantastic ships, don't get me wrong. The modular setup's awesome, and would really make my job a lot easier if fitting a new one didn't involve dodging bullets.

Anyway, it'd be great if you could provide some sort of guidance here because, frankly, I'm out of ideas, and I'm getting sick of having to tiptoe around the northern hangar bay for fear of setting off another Texas incident.

Thanks!

Field Marshal Garcia,

Well. Now you tell me. I was wondering what those nozzles were for. Good thing no-one tried to access the files. Or at least, no-one tried to access the computers until Cameron saw your reply earlier. I wouldn't worry about it too much. He wasn't really using those eyebrows to begin with.

Prying recon pilots aside, I'll get the ships lined up for departure when your pilots arrive. I can't say I won't be glad to have them off our base. I mean, I work on bombs normally, but it's an entirely different thing to flying them. I'm sure Cameron won't mind cleaning that vodka out, so we should be fine there.

I can't really say how we ended up with them. Those ships were aboard Bruchsal before I was, so I figured they must have been the remnants of some deal between the Widerstand or Volksfront. Alternately they could have been any one of the general Bundschuh members that use the base frequently. People tend to forget ships with alarming frequency out here. Still, better that they go back home.

Thanks for the help. I'll let you know if anything else starts melting its way through the walls.