The Garage is the primary repair facility for vehicles. Most of the interior is a single open space subdivided with retractable partitions into individual work-bays. The entire vehicle bay can be pressurized, or individual bays can be sealed and pressurized as needed.

Each bay is equipped with overhead hoists, multiple floor lifts, a heavy-duty robotics lifting arm, and two Robot Assist Mechanic (RAM) units. A RAM consists of a long, flexible, mechanical arm attached to the ceiling at one end, and terminating in a fan of special-purpose tool-arms, cameras, and sensors. The RAM is capable of most routine assembly and disassembly tasks, allowing a single human mechanic to oversee the repair of several vehicles at once.

The Garage also incorporates several small offices, a storeroom where common parts are stored, a miniature parts fabrication plant, a machine shop, and a computer bay for checkout, repair, and programming of vehicle and robot "brains."

Operational Notes: The Garage repairs and stores up to 6 vehicles. Any kind of vehicle can dock at the Garage, except Spiders and Scorpions. Vehicles stored at a Garage are protected from damage, even if the Garage itself is damaged. However, any vehicles inside a Garage when it is destroyed are lost.

Tales from New Terra

Penny Hill sighed as she entered the Garage. Sometime during the night, there had been a war. It was obvious enough why Tolo had called her in four hours before her regular shift. Every bay was full, the Robot Assist Mechanics busy in every one, and on three of the bays the yellow lights flashed, indicating that human assistance was needed. Worse than that, on the way in she'd seen the line of vehicles waiting outside, running all the way around the building.

Before zeroing in on any one of them, she waved at Tolo as he poked his head out of a Tiger's EMP turret, and made the rounds of the building. Most of the damaged vehicles were combat units, carrying a full menu of battle damage: Laser damage, acid burns, craters from Rail Gun projectiles, EMP-fried electrical systems, and the characteristic jagged cuts created by the Thor's Hammer weapon.

Finally she turned her attention to an EMP Panther, so pitted and scarred by acid its armor looked little thicker than tissue paper. Perhaps she could write it off as a total loss and open the bay up for a more readily repairable unit.

As she climbed up its scarred flank, she sighed. Whoever said that automated combat didn't produce casualties wasn't a mechanic.

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