Repair and Refit Bureau

The Repair and Refit Bureau is an organization within the United Stars Navy that has the following areas of responsibilities.

The following doesn't fall under the responsibility of the Repair and Refit Bureau.
 * 1) Oversee the repair and upgrade facilities - both spacedocks and those associated with a Class B or larger Fleet Base.
 * 2) Determine the viability of doing a refit, replacing an older or non uni-design ship with a newer (uni-design) one, or keeping ships unchanged for a period of time, which mainly occurs in three situations:
 * 3) Older ships that are approaching the end of their expected life cycle.
 * 4) Heavily damaged ships that would take almost as much time, money and other resources to repair as to replace.
 * 5) Ships from another civilization prior to them joining the Union.
 * 6) Plan the refit of existing classes of ships due to new technology either as a result of new Union Members or developments from applied research.
 * 7) Examine maintenance logs to determine if there are any issues with the design of a new class of ship or of any updates made to it.
 * 1) Repair done by the damage control teams as well as members of the engineering department .  This includes damage repaired on auxiliaries by those crew members. The amount and type of damage a ship can handle without outside help varies considerably and is classified.
 * 2) Non standard modifications made to a ship by it's crew. Normally only authorized for prototypes prior to the beginning of the first production run. On occasion a crew will receive permission to test some proposed changes to a ship. Unauthorized changes will normally be reversed at the next refit period, unless certain documentation standards are kept and the changes have proven themselves.

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