Winding Up
Marcus had been called to the deck earlier in the day to help diagnose a problem with one of the lifts that raised and lowered small craft between the pressurized hanger deck and the landing/launching areas that were open to space. One of the hydraulic boxes had refused to work properly and freezing the lift as a result. It had taken himself and the engineer responsible for the lifts two hours to diagnose what the problem was and other hour to fix it, and in the process he'd gotten hydraulic fluid and grease slimed all over his coveralls.
( What'd you break this time? )