Jump Start

Out past the patrol lanes, a dead reactor means a dead station, and the empire repair crews that could fix it are four systems and two weeks away. The Jump Start is what arrives instead. It docks, runs a feed line into the station grid, and turns its own fuel into somebody else's power at a rate no engineer has ever defended. Rim pilots don't call it efficient. They call it here. The tanks are sized for a long shift, the generator for a small station, and the crew for people who don't mind being the only lit window in the system. Even empire stations that swear they need no help from the Rim have started keeping a berth open for one.