Not sure if this counts as a repair question, are we going to be able to take hull panels off of our ships and replace them with other panels using different materials, or composite materials?asked by The Glaive
TL;DRSwapping hull panels or armour types is not a repair function; field repair only fills in damaged hull, and changing armour would likely require visiting a vendor at a station or spaceport.
It's not really repair, repair you will be fabricating hull where it's been shot up and torn to pieces but that's generally going to be a repair substance that fills in the gaps in your "3d" printed ship. As far as changing out your armor, that's something that I believe will require you to visit a vendor. You will be able to go to a planet or to a spaceport and say "hey change out my armor" but I don't believe it's something you will be able to do through any of the repair functions. It's a lot more involved with your direct ship structural integrity than the repair stuff is more about layering over the... your hull is technically just armor, it serves no other purpose but as far as field repair is concerned you will not be able to fabricate high density armor vs ablative armor or stealth armor or anything like that. I think that is going to be more a station visit.