Luna built the invoice across a single night, and she has described it since as the most enjoyable piece of work of her career. Eleven modules, itemised, each with its licence class, market value, condition on recovery, plus an hourly rate for the labour of taking it apart.
The labour line was the part she spent three hours of that night working on. A workshop cannot bill for a competition match, since a match is not a service and the salvage rule gives ownership rather than a fee.
She billed for the repairs instead, which is a service and has a published rate attached. Every module was recoverable, Blackforge held the rights to all eleven, and a fighter wanting her equipment back has to buy it.
"Say the total," Yenna said at the third hour of the morning.
"Two hundred and ninety-four thousand," Luna answered, "which is market rate on all eleven, plus fourteen hours of workshop labour at the rate we charge the Association."
"That is not a punitive number," Yenna said.
