Handling maintenance and overhauls for GURPS Spaceships

[dcarson]

You can get inventive under war time conditions or the equivalent. I have a book about getting the shipyard the Italians had in Eritrea back in operation after it was captured in WW II. It wasn't built to handle warships except destroyers, was built for commercial work. So they cleaned the hulls of cruisers by putting one end in the floating drydock, tilting that end up out of the watr and cleaning it then reversing the ship and getting the other half. In one case the had to fix damage on a ship whose armor was well thicker then the bending brakes could handle. The attached one edge and then used blowtorches to soften where the bend was and sledge hammers to bend to fit. The book is Under the Red Sea Sun and is very interesting, he was a salvage officer that was also involved with the D-Day portable harbors and the salvage of the sub S-51 before the war.

So I can see where penalties and taking Extra Time to overcome them might be the way to go in many cases.