Repair Ship

[Trogdor]

This brings up an interesting point to ponder.

To what extent do nanobots and shield batteries exist in canon? Who produces them? How is it that they are sold at exactly the same price everywhere?

I bring up these questions because when I think of a repair ship, I think of it wandering around a damaged vessel, working on it with its robotic arms. But instead, what we have is basically a transport that just packs itself full of medkits and dumps them into space to be sucked up and applied by the ships that need them.

It might be more interesting, and realistic, if the RS had some sort of healing beam weapon.

All that aside, at what point does a battle become large enough that it's worth sacrificing a man to play medic?

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