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Michael Richman,
What you say about =Quetzal's= repairs of =Hammerstone= seems odd (since I mainly remember Auk using the opticsynapter to repair Sand), but if you mean to suggest by this that alga (or whoever wrote that second post you quote) is misremembering Incus repairing Hammerstone then I'll remind you of the repairs in the tunnel (CALDE ch. 2, p. 59) that made Hammerstone the best buddy of Incus. And yes, he used an opticsynapter (EXODUS p. 139) probably in addition (heh) to the voided cross (in screwdriver mode); but yes, he is a practicing black mechanic where Silk is not.
If you meant to say that there are other tools at play besides just the nigh ubiquitous voided crosses, there's not likely to be any argument there! (The opticsynapter is said to be for the fiberoptic lines.)
If you wanted to probe the origins of the particular optisynapter (I vaguely remember--was it originally Doctor Crane's?), the hows and whys of it, then by all means, go to.
=mantis=