Surely they were aware that the ship was old and had more wrong with it than one missing drive component.

But lower down on the strange vessel, in the direction of its drive components, there would be considerably less chance of that happening.

He said some of the drive components were badly damaged and will have to be replaced.

Installing new drive components was not something that could be done quickly, and it would require a drive systems shutdown.

The result was high wear of drive components and poor reliability.

Power to make those f.t.l. drive components work efficiently for the first time since they were designed.

However with this arrangement, there is the danger of mechanical stress in the drive components.

Sedallia, see if those mangled coils might be drive components.

Earth policy has always been to keep the manufacturing of all industrial and space drive components safely here on Earth.

For in- stance, a lot of the drive components were firm several weeks ago.