“The modern ‘technology’ of interstellar society is the result of the mad scramble up from fire and the wheel of a billion civilisations. Every ship, every device that is made away from a core world is a hodge-podge of cobbled together, barely understood principles and mechanics. These things do not come with a manual. A valuable technician places as much trust in their intuition as their training.”
– Oomar Fon Kloot – Zen and the Art of Starship Repair