Yutaka's stomach growled. He ignored it.

Honestly, who would waste time eating when there was so much more interesting stuff to do, like this engine? He looked at it once more, hands coated with grease and whatnot, before turning around and rummaging for something.

(the following names are borrowed from a sci-fi book I recently read lol)

The engine, Quantum Singularity Hyperflux Induction Drive model X7, hummed quietly in the background as he withdrew his vaccuum pipe and reached deep inside the engine to figure out what exactly was it doing.

He had a report to file after this. Something was up with this girl. Not that, or that, or - ah. The coherence regulator. Yutaka yanked it out, the little heart-sized device that regulated the engine's fluid balances, and instantly regretted it as oil squirted the font of his tunic in protest.

Ignoring the wet (and oily) stain, he stuck the vaccuum pipe into where the coherence regulator was, which began pumping out a steady stream of oversaturated oil condensate. Exactly what the engine was running on - and apparently they just needed a new coherence regulator, else it'd become unbalanced again.

Great. Like they had a spare. The mixture was running down his arms, and Yutaka carefully placed the coherence regulator - Boze-Einstein model 92P - on the floor, where it vibrated slightly of it's own accord. Standing up and making his way to the washbasin in the corner that had been installed - really, while the others might cringe at oversaturated oil condensate, it was harmless, wasn't it? - he let the water run over his arms, letting all the liquid go down the drain.

Sighing, he turned the tap off, dried his arms on his pants - too bad he couldn't do anything about the new big black blot on his tunic until it got washed - and strode briskly out of the engine bay, casting around to find someone important enough to find him a new Boze-Einstein coherence regulator. It was pretty important, after all.