JR wrote: > > "Kelly, we may have to jump without the repairs. Go over the jump > > drives as well as you can." > > > "I'm on it." He turns to the terminal and brings up the appropriate > diagnostics programs. The engines still need an overhaul. Kelly can do enough work on them so that they will work for a few jumps, and probably won't misjump even once, but he'll need several hours of concentrated work on them to do it...say four or five hours. During that time the jump drive simply won't be operational. And then there is the fact that the ship doesn't have enough fuel aboard to jump at the moment! Sure, you could refuel from the extensive oceans here on Serbia, but that'll mean setting down somewhere and spending a couple of hours running the pumps, and then refining the fuel aboard. You have the fuel processing plant, but it only does 5 dtons an hour and you need 10 dtons for a jump 1, so once you're refueled, you'll need another 2 hours to process the fuel for a single jump. That could be done on the run out to the jump point, though. Eros AKU GM
