Sayeeda floated upside down in the access conduit. Turning off the grav pumps hand't helped restore power and so they were checking the junctions manually. The light in her helmet burned in the darkness, illuminating the circuit board she was working on, AI providing visual cues for her as she compared components against catalgouge data. A tool box floated next to her, complete with a small battery for sodering iron and micro welder.

"Junction A11-2B looks like its cooked all its capacitors," she said, the radio carrying the words to the ear unit Neil was wearing. She leaned in with her pliers and began stripping out the blackened capacitor units and then soddering fresh ones into place, the inbuilt multi-meter in her helmet verifying each of the connections as she marked them complete.

"Fuck," was Neil's eloquent response. She could hear the whir of one of the diamond saws over the static of the radio. They had decided to leave Taya in Cryo so long as there was enough auxiliary power to make her safe. Until the oxygen recycles were back in action there was no point wasting air. The girl had demonstrated she was smart and had some technical skills, but she didn't have the calm in a crisis that necessity had inculcated in both Neil and Sayeeda.

"Must have been some kind of subspace electrical pulse," Neil mumbled, "Probably cooked every shielded system."

"Are we fucked on navigation then?" Sayeeda asked calmly. If that were the case they were dead sure as the Galaxy spun. She tripped the test switch on the panel and watched it light up green before kicking off the conduit to float along to the next junction where she stopped herself with pressure of her hand against the wall.

"Not as such," Neil replied, it sounded like he was holding a bolt in his mouth, a moment later she heard the dispenser whir it into place.

"Nav and RIP drive are shielded and seperate just in case, if we can get power we can probably get the astronav to figure out where the hell we are. Even make a short jump to a planet." Sayeeda laughed tinnily over the radio.

"Yeah ok then we just have to land with no engine control," she grinned inspite of herself, if you couldn't laugh at crisis then life as a mercenary was a cheerless bussiness.

"One impossible task at a time Captain," Neil replied, the same grim humor in his voice. Sayeeda paused in consideration.

"Neil if we could get Lonney online could he give us a system wide schematic?"

"Sure but we don't have the power for that."

"What if I fired up the fusion bottle in the gun jeep in the hold? I could discharge it into the grid." There was a long pause.

"It would be pretty low power compared to the ship, plus how would you get it started without a jump?"

"I know a trick or two, and we only need Lonney for a few seconds to give us a damage control read out, then we can target the damage to the essential systems. Can you direct the power so it will flow only to the AI core?" Another lengthy pause.

"Should be possible Cap," Neil said his voice tentatively hopeful.

"Alright," she kicked off the wall and started floating down towards the main hold, "get started on the transformer and current path, ILl see if can coax the gun jeep to life."

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