Gideon looked over with a mental groan at the other mechanic, the man was downright unflappable in the situation. He looked back at those that were talking and cast glance back to the other potential rival. He stowed his bike to the corner and came back to the fellow grease monkey to talk to him as calmly as he could while waiting for the preacher

"Alright, lets keep this simple, we can't be in there butting heads or else we both going to be stuck on this rock. One of us needs to do the hard work and the other one do the reports. Have you ever done overhauls to a firefly before?"

He had done a lot of work in the war, scrapping and slapping ships parts that were shot down or captured alliance pieces. Of them he had to appreciate purple belly tech, it was all built around like lego blocks. Push it in, pull it out, ultimate efficiency. 

"Alright, lets assume for a second everything is (insert chinese here), We have the the two [url=http://wiki.serenitymush.com/wiki/index.php/LR_Shuttle]shuttles[/url] and the [url=http://wiki.serenitymush.com/wiki/index.php/Firefly]firefly[/url] made by the same people who make [url=http://wiki.serenitymush.com/wiki/index.php/Dragonfly]Dragonflies[/url], her kissing cousin. 
After that we got the [url=http://wiki.serenitymush.com/wiki/index.php/Bumblebee]bumble bee[/url] which is the inbred cousin, then [url=http://wiki.serenitymush.com/wiki/index.php/Yellowjacket]yellow-jackets[/url] who are the brother from another mother and [url=http://wiki.serenitymush.com/wiki/index.php/Hornet]hornets[/url] that look like you from a ways off but aint got nothing to do with you. with [url=http://wiki.serenitymush.com/wiki/index.php/Scarab]Scarabs[/url] limping in at the last. 

If the reactor is gone, A dragonfly has the same make we can use, but we can cobble together something that will limp with a long range shuttle to take apart or take a huge risk with finding a bumblebee to take apart piece by piece for what we need like a compression coil or the kin. The engine is in the same boat, either a dragonfly for a full replacement or a shuttle for parts. And again for the thrusters. 
Hell we can get her just about anywhere for a spell if we scrap both of her shuttled for parts. But i'd rather not kill the babies to feed the momma-bird, she'll know and she'll let us know her displeasure.

Sensor packs we can get from both of those as well as any bumblebee, scarab, or hornet. Same for the whole computer. If the coms are down, then we can get it from anything but the scarab. What do you say?"