The Sword of the Void now lay at anchor on the northern fringe of Segmentum Obscurus, with severe internal damage. A third of its hull had ruptured, and some of its energy conduits were leaking. The only saving grace was that the accident had not affected the Antimatter Energy Core inside the ship.
Otherwise, the Sword of the Void would likely have exploded into a Black Hole before it could even return to Realspace.
Large numbers of Castellans and Servitors, along with swarms of Nanomachines, were carrying out rudimentary hull repairs.
The Men of Iron still followed the ancient Federation standards when assessing damage to ships.
The Sword of the Void was more badly damaged than the Fortress of Enlightenment that Cawl had found. The giant ship itself was no longer worth repairing. The repairs the many machines were currently performing served only to keep the damage from spreading. Once the Spear of Titans arrived with the fleet, the Sword of the Void would undergo reconstruction.
Reconstructing a Titan ship of this kind was an extremely complicated undertaking. Even shutting down its Antimatter Energy Core would consume vast amounts of energy.
The reconstruction process therefore required assistance from other Mechanical Units.
Without its own power supply, a Titan ship would lose gravity control. Its enormous mass could easily cause matter inside it to collapse, so other ships had to supply power to maintain the Gravity Control Units distributed throughout its hull.
Enormous ship-printing devices would then be positioned around the Titan ship and begin gradually subjecting the damaged hull to Quantum Disassembly, using it as material for a complete reconstruction.
The principle was the same as with a corrupted program: reinstalling it was often faster than scanning it, comparing the files, then downloading the damaged files again to repair it.