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[Toaster]

Hey, Ben! Hand me the welder!

Yes, my master!

Ben Owen stumbled over a pile of scrapped armor plating as he bounced over to his older brother, Lloyd.

Ah, ****!

Lloyd sighed, climbed down from the platform he standing on becide the Salvager, and picked up the welder Ben had dropped. Indifferently, he returned to his work place and continued fixing a small communications antenna on the craft's hull.

Jeez, thanks for the help, Lloyd.

Lloyd nodded a sarcastic "you're welcome" at him and put on a pair of black safety goggles. Ben snorted, got up, gave him the finger, and walked back out of the DSMB.

From a dark corner in the stuffed sphere, Henry laughed.

Be nice to your brother, man. After all, he helped you find this wreck.

Lloyd snorted. He almost blew it up three times already, too, he thought to himself as sparks erupted from the heated alloy he was welding to the rest of the rusty, pockmarked hull.

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The DSMB - Deployable Ship-Maintenance Bubble - is a rather handy tool, constructed by the Junkers on Trafalgar. Essentially, it is a steel cocoon which can be deployed from the station and envelope sections of ships too large to fit into a hangar. It attaches itself to the hull similar to the way a human's mouth attaches itself to a piece of bread. Without biting off of course.
The inside of the DSMB is then pressurized so that personnel can enter and work on repairs of the ship-section within.
Pretty neat, aye?

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Olivia Sable