The old but venerable Monolith’s were equipped with reliable but rudimentary guidance thrusters, equipment meant to do a job for a century without issue but the previous crews needed more than crude and reliable, so after rounds of tinkering to adjust the throughput through the deLaval nozzles to account for greater isentropic flow, the fusion reactor outputs were rigged through magnetic accelerators before the thrusters to increase power output by 22%, and general fusion reaction was increased across the ship by reducing emissions control circuitry and bypassing other safety equipment that ensured the ship would never pass an inspection, but that wasn’t the idea was it?

When the Korda’s weapons hit the ship, the primary fusion reactors were undamaged but the plasma manifold feeding the port thrusters was knocked out of alignment, leaking plasma in the space between the docking latches. Thankfully the ship’s systems are smart enough to cut flow through the damaged manifold, but until it’s repaired the old bird will have much poorer control.

Vashkilu, Infiltrator