The examination takes a couple hours, and the repairs take several more. Some of the unresponsive cameras needed only to be rebooted, but the rest likely need new circuit boards. Fortunately, there are enough cameras left to provide coverage of most of the hull, aside from a gap on one section of the exterior ring and another on one side of the cylinder, but the active drones are able to cover those. Most of the undamaged or lightly damaged unresponsive drones are quickly brought back online, but some, upon internal examination, seem to have suffered severe melting of internal circuitry. After repairs, 4/7 of the original drone complement remained, the rest either missing or taken back to the manufactory for recycling.
The hull, fortunately, seemed to have suffered no breaches, having weathered the intense heat well, though there was some cosmetic damage, scores and gashes in the reflective coating, presumably from drones (or pieces thereof) being torn off and slammed back against it. The hull was quite warm, but not dangerously so. The drones, cameras, and microthruster ports have taken the worst of it, mostly short-circuits and heat-related damages, but nothing that the drones are unable to repair. The main comm and sensor arrays become fully operational after reset, having been designed to look at and withstand a variety of extreme conditions. However, with the gap in the system records and the lack of immediate reference points, they have some trouble recalibrating themselves. The ship does not seem to be under acceleration, at least, but at the moment there is no way to determine velocity or bearing.
The electromagnetic effects seem to have been limited to the exterior, with no short-circuits inside, but aside from trauma to some, that left no way to account for the disruptions to system memory (not to mention that of the organics). However, at least the interior systems were mostly undamaged. The internal sensors took a while to recalibrate, due to some scrambling in the subsystems, but without a need for external reference points, they were able to. What minor damages there were, the crew and interior robots were able to quickly find and repair. Despite the memory gap, the ship's computer systems seemed fine, though the AI had to unscramble or reset some of the autonomous subsystems, and had a large irregularity of its own that it couldn't quite work out.
Being designed to account for both lack of and variable directions of gravity, storage containers seem to have retained their contents, though some were a bit shaken up. Of particular relief, fuel and volatile chemical storage had remained intact. The work to secure loose objects had paid off, and in the hanger, Bringer was relieved to find the shuttle had come through unscathed. No signs of injury developed in the crew during this time, and those who had taken on some of Makai's nanites showed no irregularities in their vitals, though closer examination would likely be prudent.
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