Nanite Repair Matrix

Name: Nanite Repair Matrix
Notes: A relatively simple computer controlled system, the nanite repair matrix developed by the Imperial Union Of Planets is true to its name. Though not the same as a visit to a drydock, the field repairs this system allows for is often the last thing keeping a ship from being abandoned by its crew.
Deactivated nanites are kept in small nodes of varying sizes scattered throughout a starship. Upon detection of damage, the computer activates the nanites in the nearest nodes and directs them to repurpose the nearby mass, avoiding some sources of mass for various reasons, to effect repairs. As this reduces overall structural integrity, especially the more times it is utilized on the same general area, it is primarily meant as a hold-over measure until a ship can reach proper repair facilities.
Originally developed in an attempt to create self-regenerating hulls, the tech was considered a failure at first until someone noted that it still functioned as desired in sealing hull breaches without active participation by the crew. Though not the counterpart to a self-healing bio-hull that they wanted, ships, and stations, equipped with a nanite repair matrix are capable of surviving longer than their unequipped counterparts. This can mean adding just enough time for a ship to escape from a superior enemy or for a station to avoid destruction before reinforcements can arrive when otherwise, destruction would have been assured.
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