Auxiliary Craft Maintenance

Auxiliary Craft Maintenance Bays are normally dedicated areas of a ship's Shuttlebay where shuttles, runabouts, and other auxiliary vessels are serviced and/or repaired. On larger ships and stations that support a large number of auxiliary craft, secondary shuttlebays are normally designated maintenance areas in their entirety. These bays are usually equipped with Auxiliary craft elevators, anti-grav lifts, and industrial-grade replicators, allowing specialists to make nearly every part they need. Whenever a vessel requires modification, it's done in a maintenance bay.

Maintenance bays are normally sealed off from a main shuttlebay during flight operations, or when major overhauls involving potentially dangerous situations (such as changing out a warpcore, matter/antimatter refueling, and weapons fittings) might occur.

Auxiliary craft maintenance is handled either by the Engineering Department or Flight Control personnel, depending on how the CO of a particular vessel sets up his departments.