i was wondering...has anyone completed this mission? i blasted so many bots I lost count, flew across sectors for hours. but none of them dropped a hydrospanner. is there a mission bug? or is it simply the longest most drawn out mission in the history of vo? or am i missing some key aspect?

In the mission text they will say sector X. In that sector one of the bots will have it.

I guess I'll have to come back in-game, even if only to do that mission.

yeah.. but how many times does this freak lose his toy? I brought it back to him for perhaps three times and I can do the mission again and again.

It's not worth it, tosh.

I had like 50 hydrospanners when this mission first came out. Never did me any good. I can span the F**K out of water tho.

I'll take em, im sure ill find a use for them somehow.

they're very useful, you can span some hidros with them.

ratonu: hydros...aren't those those big frozen ice roids?

Actually, the name is a contraction of Hydraulic Spanner. Basically, its a high-tech wrench. Literally.

I always preferred to think of it as a high-tech name for a low-tech pipe wrench.

I thought Ray was using a Star Wars reference.

"Horizontal boosters...! Alluvial damper...! Ow! That's not it. Bring me the hydrospanner!"
¯Han Solo to Chewbacca

LOL

Fixing the Millennium Falcon on Hoth:

"No no! THAT goes there, THIS goes here!"
...
"Turn it off! Turn it off! Turn it off!" <pop sizzle burn>

I love Empire Strikes Back.

yea that was the funniest one, everything just kept going wrong

Memories of Star Wars back before it was ruined by its own creator. Definitely one of the best scenes. I need to watch it again, though, for the technobabble... does he really say "alluvial damper?" What does sediment deposited by a river have to do with making your space ship fly? I think this is off-topic now.

Also, Han shot first. There is no other version of Star Wars. I refuse to admit otherwise.