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It has been mentioned that Bengal Carriers are available to civilians only for taking by force as wrecks for "fixing up". Would the Crucible-based External Repair Structure by typically used in that process to the point where it can move itself to a place more suited for an overhaul than the presumably dangerous place it was found in?

Matt Sherman: So a Crucible, not by itself. Bengals are giant ships, so that's going to be something where you and a few friends in multiple crucibles are gonna want to roll over to that thing and start getting it fixed up. Because if you've managed to make one of those things dead in the water. That's no small amount of damage that you're going to have to fix up on this thing.Calix Reneau: Yeah the Crucible will be able to perform repair actions on things like the Bengal. They'll be able to repair hull damage, fix up breaches, do component repair in the field to a much greater degree than you could do by hand. However, the Crucible is limited in its cargo space and there are some components on the Bengal which are larger than the Crucible can carry. So, if one of those is broken beyond repair and must be replaced then you're going to have to find a way around that. It won't be a single Crucible job. I don't see that being the case for most of our larger ships, I think that you'll probably want to have two or three at minimum if you're going to be taking care of capital class ships.MS: Yeah, smaller ships like a Constellation, a single Crucible should be a good...CR: YeahMS: A good enough...CR: Easy.MS: ...to do a field refit on it. But the capital ship power plants and shield generators, these are massive room-sized installations. So, you're going to need something with a lot of bulk carrying capacity to get these bigger components over to those ships. Even if if the Crucible can still manipulate and get into place, it can't bring that with it because it will just be over capacity.

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