Raynor, you're supposed to be able to repair anything you could build yourself. If you can't build it, you can't fix it either. Bu tif you capture a ship with equal or lower tech value, then you can fix it.
Tsaarx, The reason why was in response to the request to find a way to prevent them from being repaired and reused. Look down to Raynor's response to Nitram Draw where Nitram asks about making stellar manipulation truly one-shot items. This was just a quick thought about how it might be possible to do such a thing.
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