[From my time as the lone useless technician in a small lab, I guess there's making purchasing websites less painful, having people who know how to use the analysis programs to deal with the data (so grabbing a few extraneous Shuos analyst children for scutwork should be effective, if inapplicable to now) and, yes, definitely hoping on a star that things don’t break over the weekend >:(

The only things I can think of for him to try later is sabotage that leads impatient scientists to do the equivalent of propping secure doors open while they wait for it to be fixed, or the last resort of “nice people holding keycard doors open.” I'm sure the proverb in the hexarchate is [Beware of Shuos offering grid assistance] even by this time period, so that's out too. He could always be a rubber beetle who's very easy to joke with or yell at.

(tell me about these jokes)]