Repair Parts

Although I wrote briefly about needing extra parts on ship in case of emergency in an earlier post, I think it needs a more thorough explanation. There are systems, such as engine parts or critical navigation equipment that are required to have spare parts on ship at all times in case the system breaks. That way they can be fixed quickly and the mission can continue. The system that records and distributes the spare part throughout the Navy is maintained by people on ship, who correct the requests work centers send in for parts before sending it up, and by people at shore commands who actually ship the parts out. It’s actually a rather large work center that usually works long hours tracking parts and is important enough to need someone on duty 24/7, even in home port. If you have some sort of replicator, like in the many Star Trek series, this work center isn’t needed, however, if your ship isn’t that advanced, you will definitely need storage and record keeping on spare parts. It can cause tension to find out the part isn’t on ship and needs to be ordered or can ease tension to find the part onboard. Of course, “broken” parts can also be an amusing, though very expensive, way for that coworker to talk to that cute girl that is in charge of issuing repair parts… The ideas are endless, I just supply fact.