On 9 Nov 2017 at 15:17, Rupert Boleyn wrote:

> There are probably also going to be several levels of mothballing,
> starting with "we might want to use this 'as is' within the next
> decade or two", which would mean some kind of atmosphere, and mostly
> just the ship being powered down and cleaned, etc. Later steps would
> assume that the electronics will be decades out of date and would get
> replaced anyway, so they'd either be removed as part of the process,
> or no-one would care if they died from prolonged vacuum exposure
> because they'd be getting replaced upon recommissioning anyway.

Remember, tech advances a *lot* slower in the TU. For local navies
they may have an advance from T13 to TL14 or the like. But not at all
often. And given that most of the *other* ship's systems (drives and
the like) would be different it might be a better use of funds to
replace the ships.

The ImperialNavy will be using the best tech they can get (subject to
maintainability issues).

So refitting with newer electronics isn't likely to happen *that*
often.

Electronics dying from age is more of an issue with "lost" ships. And
it won't be vacuum exposure that kills them, but simple migration of
atoms in the "chips".
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