On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > > So we’re in Leonard’s old ship, they get to the service depot and all they have is a first edition copy, one with (like my old Honda manual, which broke in half over the years and lost a few pages there in the middle, covering disassembly and repair of the standard 5-speed transmission) a couple corrupted and unreadable sections, plus (lets be real here, this is a ship from "Shattered Ships of the Fighting Imperium", lets say) none of the later errata releases :-) > Back in the days when I worked in the Airlines, a lot of the mods/repairs/etc were documented in both the airline HQ and shops, and in the books in the aircraft itself. And there were pretty hard-core FAA regs on them. I'd think in a TL11+ ship, there would be a lot more, and easier, docs than we're used to. There's a set of comments in the Vilani book about most documentation being trouble determination trees and SOPs for repair/replace/maintain. I can picture the computer providing "Instructables" style text-and-video on maintaining just about everything in the ship. One would just place their hand computer nearby, answer the questions and do the task as described. As a bonus, the computer would _log_ that the task was done, and any comments the person doing it added. If a jury rig were done, each of those steps would be logged and probably imaged. Add in the standard boilerplate about the Vilani influence and "As a culture, we've been handling starship maintenance documentation since the Solomani were beginning to use Roman Numerals" and I think the 3I would have a better handle on this issue than this.
