I was trying to use a Repair Tender with three drone bays (and three T1 control rooms) to try and repair ships for retrieval, recovery, and scrap at home base. But if you have the Repair Tender docked on the target ship and their Repair drones expire, then the bay's cooldown nearly doubles.

It doesn't make sense, since the Repair Tender has its own systems apart from its docked ship. This makes me worried if I'm going to use a self-service Repair Station on my ship... Because if this happens, then a player would need to find armor with thruster capabilities, which can't be found in the starting sector...

[11:19 PM EDIT] Just as I feared. The Repair Station's drone bays aren't charging whenever my ship is docked on the station. And to make it even worse, I can't board the station to circumvent this delay!! That makes Repair station intermittently useless. And who knows when's the next update for this to make Repair Stations 'functional...'