Four minutes.
He keyed his comm: "Bridge, this is Jax. Core stable. Tell command the Angry Red Key still works." aries mpm tool
In the fluorescent-lit bowels of the Aries Orbital Shipyard, the MPM Tool—Multi-Phase Manipulator—was the only thing standing between a trillion-credit dreadnought and total collapse. Four minutes
He knelt before a mess of sparking cables and twisted alloy. The ship's AI whispered, "Standard repair protocols unavailable. Recommend manual phase-correction." Tell command the Angry Red Key still works
He needed to realign the magnetic bottle containing the ship’s miniature star. That required Align mode. He pressed the tool against the reactor housing. The MPM didn't force the magnets—it asked them to move, using resonant frequencies. One by one, the magnetic fields clicked into place like puzzle pieces.
The alarm blared: "Core breach in seven minutes."