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After the capacitor was down, and Gunshin had left, Yuzuki regarded the single other person in the room. Well, what were they supposed to do, then?
"Well," Yuzuki decided, "We're going to have to fabricate some more couplings for the power relays. Right now, it's just the emergency power cables, and we're going to have to replace them. Okaa-san? Can you give Rin some of the consoles?"
A swarm of translucent windows materialized around the Hei in question. Yuzuki came to stand beside her, and the two circles of windows merged into an oval around the two of them.
"What do you already know how to do?"
"Etto," Rin started as her eyes scanned through the mass of windows. It was a bit overwhelming as she looked from window to window and started to panic. "Etto... etto... I... uh... I don't know!" she finally blurted out, a clear distressed tone present in her voice. Yuzuki managed a soft smile, trying to be calming. The Heisho placed a hand upon one of the windows and dragged it to the twelve-o-clock view. It was a list.
"Step one is choosing what to make. This is a list of schematics. The fabricator, as I said, uses premade schematics. You don't ever have to build something up completely from scratch, because that takes a lot of time. We'll start with replacement emergency power busses, since we're going to have to throw the ones we used out anyway. Scroll through and find them."
Rin nodded as she reached out reluctantly to the window and put a finger to it. A flick and the window began scrolling. She paused it a few times when she thought she saw it, but continued on. "Etto, is this it? Nee-chan?" she asked pointing to a point on the list.
Yuzuki nodded, already reaching for a panel on her left and dragging it forward. "Don't know. Select it."
The flustered lavender-haired sprite gave a small nod as she poked at the entry for the busses, her hand quickly recoiling back, afraid of messing anything up if her hand stayed nearby. The panel that Yuzuki had selected and moved changed views, showing the structural skeleton of a fourteen-foot-long cable, with two couplings at the end, one 'male' and one 'female'. Several other panels also flickered and changed, and some of the panels that had been blank now sported a plethora of statistics and drawings. Yuzuki's hand moved through the chaos, selecting three windows and dragging them close, replacing the original list.
"Good," said Yuzuki, "Now, there are several things you can do from here. You could change the materials, which is this screen..." Yuzuki indicated another list. "You could modify certain things about the size of the thing, which is here, and then you can of course change minor things like color and paint and so on, but that's not quite as important."
She pointed to a star beside the name of the power bus, on the window where it was displayed, and said, "This indicates there are associated parts, that also need to be fabricated with it, for it to be fully operational. We'll get to that later. For now, we need eight of these things."
"Eight of which?" Rin asked. There were too many windows! Yuzuki narrowed the search by flicking some of them away, until only the image of the power bus cable was left. "Oh." Rin pushed the associated button to 'order' eight of the cables. There was a blurring, as if the very air were burning, in the middle of the room near the restored capacitor. Except this time, when it ceased, there were eight of the cables lined up neatly beside each other. Yuzuki pulled one of the windows back into view, glancing to the side with another smile.
"Cool, right?"
"Y- yeah." Rin still seemed very nervous about this whole thing.
"Loosen up some," Yuzuki chided, teasingly elbowing the younger sprite in the side. She didn't expect it to do much through the power armor, but it was almost a reflex. "You're treating it like it's Aetheric Science. It can't be that bad, hu?"
The other sprite let out a quiet 'mrp' at the sudden elbow. "I guess it's not that bad... but it's still..." Rin trailed off.
"That's alright, you'll get the hang of it after a while," Yuzuki concluded, placing the initial list back in front of Rin. "Find the wires that go inside. Part number twenty-two, zero-zero, under electrical."
"Hai...." Rin reached out and switched down to the electrical tab and scanned down the list. A few moments of searching and she found the wires. She selected said wires, and set the window to have eight sets of wires made. However, her inexperience and reluctance made her hold back from just having it created and, instead, waited to see if Yuzuki would give the go ahead or not.
TBC
