Preparations and upgrades

After the sandstorm passed the young mechanic was eager to show off the racing pod he had built out of various bits of junk and scrap that had been deemed worthless. The entire thing had a skeletal half finished appearance with a liberal coating of dust and rust. Binks had in his repeating time learned and honed his mechanical skills on the underwater craft of the gungans, so even though there were differing principles as the pod was meant to travel though air, he could see the underlying design choices of faster, lighter, and more agile that the pod would use to its advantage. Binks asked if he could help out, and utilized the help of the astrodroid to diagnose the racing machine and fix as much as they could. All this meant a heavy application of elbow grease to get rid of the rust and dust, even with the use of specialized tools like the sonic scrubber that caused dust and most of the rust to just float off the parts.

While Jar Jar was working at the front of one of the engines while the young mechanic was explaining thing to the incognito queen he was warned about the electro binders, a stream of energy connecting the two engines, a nasty and jagged looking purple beam, this kinds reminded Binks of the Jedi's weapons, but if it was close to malfunctioning... maybe he could talk to the Jedi to take a look at the energy projectors to fine tune them, because if it is one mechanical thing a Jedi should know, its how to make a beam of energy flow smoothly right?

Over the time leading up to the local big race, the Jedi would go out and try and track down other options, but none showed. Everyone else meanwhile worked on the pod, and what supplies that could help from the ship were sent over, every tool, spare supplies, parts, modules, pried out sheets of thin metal that could be spared was brought over and reworked, the once rusty and skeletal pod slowly transformed into a gleaming and shiny lean machine as the last of the sheets were added on the engines from the spares from the silver themed ship currently parked in the desert. To show the collaboration and help, the ship sent over a long disused and outdated ceremonial flag that was on the ship, a white background, a blue pattern close to the pole, and a splash of yellow symbols in the top far corner, a simple, yet elegant flag.

Binks painted up the pod over the silvered sheets with a shining cobalt blue paint, and having the engine flaps at the front yellow to match the theme of the flag, though that did result in a few spills that caused his skin to look like he walked though a rainstorm of blue paint. Soon they would have to move the pod over to the race track, and hope for the best as their best chance was riding on the young racer to win.