Quote:Dartz wrote:Actually, I'm fairly sure that Robotechnology is pretty low maintenance. Witness the Zentreadi Battlepod - functions perfectly well for decades with absolutely no maintenance. Sure, it's a flyweight, and when they actually do come upon a worthy adversary they burn like kindling... but the point is they do function without maintenance.
You think the F-35 or 22 are hangar-queen maintenance monsters, just include all those load bearing joints and moving parts, not to mention the transformation mechanisms. Maintenance and repair on those must be hideous, so there has to be a valid technical reason for adding that feature (Beyond selling toys), and yours is one of the better ones I've heard...
So, I suspect that since they use Robotechnology fairly exclusively in the veritech fighters that they are surprisingly low-maintenance - to the point where the only time they have to do anything is to actually make repairs or upgrade the equipment. (This would also help explain why they always had a seemingly endless supply of veritechs - it wasn't very hard to salvage the wrecked ones.)