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A Short Story About (Battle)shorts

I have once again picked up a piece of debris at the junk store and made a video about it. This is a story I invented because I couldn't find any hard answers. I expect to get corrected on my assumptions, but I didn't know how else to start a conversation about it. I have already received comments confirming that I got most of this correct, to my great satisfaction. There is ONE inaccuracy I've been made aware of, it's significant, and I can't believe I didn't think of it myself: The plunger doesn't reset when you trigger the coil, or ever. These are one-time-use devices. Once you bypass a relay, there's no telling what damage it will incur as a result of overcurrent, etc. The contacts could get fused together permanently, or a brief internal fire could coat everything in soot, there's no telling. Once a ship makes it back to port, all such overridden devices get replaced with new ones. That may be why this one was thrown away - or it might just be that someone pushed the plunger d

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  • Originally Aired August 30, 2022
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Created October 18, 2022 by
    spideronfire
  • Modified October 18, 2022 by
    spideronfire