Objects fall into three main categories:

• Simple gadgets: <$50 for TL 10 or <$75($375 purchase price) for TL 11
• Fool proofed items
• Periodically used items.
• Continuously used items.

Simple objects don’t require much maintenance. If an object costs less than 0.1% of average starting wealth ($30 at TL9, $50 at TL10, $75 at TL11) it’s so simple that it will work until it wears out.

This category includes things like consumer electronics/appliances used at home and implants bought as abilities.

Such would require a maintenance check every year or two, but this can be ignored in play.

These are items that are not normally used except when on a mission.

This includes things like weapons, sensors, communicators and other gadgets you take with you. For simplicity count the number of such items you have in your load, divide by 10 and use that number as hours of maintenance you need to do on your gear once you get back to your base for each day(or part) spent on a high stress situation. Use half that required time if your mission did not involve any combat or other high stress things.

These are items that are in constant use. These include things like life support or generators on base and all implants bought as implanted gadgets. They require one hour/week for most gadget size things. For larger things like vehicles see the spaceship/vehicle rules.

That time must be allocated weekly.

Any basic gear <$5000 for TL 10 or <$7500($37500 purchase price) for TL 11 can have the basic maintenance done without skill if you have the manual and take double the time. Any higher cost gear requires at least one point in the correct repair skill due to complexity.

The actual skill is the same as to repair it and is usually obvious.

Note that Power armors require both Armoury(body armor) and mechanic(robots).