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Somewhere on Abrae

Tycho yawned, as he stared at the craft in front of him. A small cruiser sat in front of him. Levitating above the ground on the repulsors still working. It would be a long walk back to the centre if I couldn’t get this fixed. A repulsor on the underside of the vehicle was swinging, dangling by some wires. A hard knock on a rock and warning lights were everywhere. And so now here I was. Unscrewing the panels around the repulsor, I saw that one of the three wires leading to it was torn.
Those wires were probably the ones that supplied the power. Now all he needed to do is work out which one was the live, the neutral and the earth. Taking out a pair of wire cutters, Tycho detached the entire repulsor. Getting a small power source out of the emergency kit on the craft. Tycho set its levels of almost zero, and applied it to the green and red wires. Nothing. Applying it to the green and blue, tycho felt a small force pushing at his hand. Promising. To make sure that he wasn’t fooling himself he dialled the setting up higher, and applied the contacts. There was a sharp tug at his other hand. As the pain went shooting up his arm, the repulsor went flying in the air, before losing connection and returning to the ground.
“Well, complete and utter bollocks this is,” muttered Tycho as he went to pick up the fallen repulsor and power source. After a cursory glance, Tycho walked back to the craft, and started to reattach the repulsor, and had almost stated soldering the first wire back on when Tycho realised that he hadn’t properly checked if the repulsor still worked. After a quick test it didn’t. Not even a bit.
“I’d forget my head if it weren’t screwed on,” he muttered, shivering in the cold of Abrae. Taking a deep breath of the crisp air, Tycho unassembled the repulsor. Dredging up what he knew about repulsors rom whatever depth of his mind they were in. They used knotted loops of space time to levitate, yes, they are made near black holes, require tiny amounts of power relive to their application, and they work about up to 6 planetary distances, but at the edge only support their own weight, so it would be an inverse of planetary radius, multiplied by the coefficient of gravity, then the weight of the support, followed by… oh, it just a lose wire. After affixing the wire back into its pin, Tycho screwed the cover onto the repulsor, and started to solder the wires back into each other.
After five minutes of work, Tycho waved the acrid fumes that were a by-product of soldering from his face, and straightened up. After stretching, he bent down to fit the outer cover over the repulsors. After fafing around lining up the wires to their slots, he hoisted the cover back over the underside of the barge. After affixing the cover back in place, Tycho climbed back up to the top of the barge. After checking the indicator, he went back to doing what he was in the first place.

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Word count: 535
AAR: After an minor crash, one of the repulsor stops working. After a test to se if it works, a stupid mistake is made, but is rectified, and the cruiser is put back together.