In SEIV, no ship is favoured over another for repair. Each ship can be repaired concurrently based on the repair strategy (I think you can find it under Empire Options menu - the crown). First, control components are repaired, then movement, weapons, etc...
A repair unit may have it's repair points spread over several ships at one time...
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