Harvesting Components

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"So I guess we can fit more in now yah?" Jaxx said, picking up a crate of vegetables and looking it over suspiciously.

"Guess so." Jay said, with a grin.
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"Huh. Why didn't we think of that?" Ransom asked.

"Got caught in the moment..." South admitted, scratching his head.

While they were discussing this, Jamie was sticking his hand into the device they'd created.

"Woah, how can you trust that thing?" Cass asked, hoping not to have two one-armed crewmembers.

"It's fine. The capacitor blew, there's no charge." He responded, and pulled out the charred remains of the component he'd given them. He looked quizically at it, then at the place in the circuit it had been placed.

"Something wrong?" South asked.

"This was meant to be a current smoothing circuit, right?" The engineer asked. "But the polarity was reversed. That's why it blew."

"What? You put that in! How could you get that wrong?!" Ransom exclaimed.

"I'm a BIOLOGIST!" he exclaimed, one last time. "You didn't tell me it had to go in a specific polarity. Why didn't you ask the engineer?"

"Don't bring me into this." Jamie said, and turned to the now shrunk boxes of food. "I'll help getting them into the Phoenix in a minute, got an idea first." He said to Jay with a nod. The two scientists continued bickering about their device. Oviously a sore subject for both of them.

With an archiver weapon in hand, Jamie approached one of the wrecked robots. "Hey, Cass." he called. "You need any more robotics for your projects?" he asked. Cass wandered over to inspect, and Jamie held out an archiver weapon.

"Crowbar." he said, and it shifted into the quintessential multi-tool. Service panels and armour plating peeled away slowly to reveal the inner workings, ripe for the picking.

<tag. Short one, but hey - you never know when this kind of thing will come in handy.>

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