[#3455] 7.5 Active repair drones vanish on gate transition.

[solardawning]

Problem: When a ship with active repair drones transitions through a gate, all active repair drones vanish and are lost. The ship no longer owns them.

Steps to reproduce: Have any L ship with repair drones, and damaged components, so that the drones activate and fly around the exterior of the ship.
You can replicate this in a new game with a custom start, giving yourself at least one L ship and a different ship to pilot yourself, manually using the other ship to shoot up the L ship so that drones activate, and then flying it through a gate.

On gate transition, your repair drones vanish.

This bug is especially crippling for the Hyperion, which has thin shields for a combat L ship, and so is likely to experience damaged components.
See also a Hyperion-specific repair drone related bug, here: viewtopic.php?t=469537

[Tranxalive]

Can you upload a save, so we can test this easier, please?

[solardawning]

Sorry, I gave it a try, and I can't easily do so. I don't have a save from when I had active repair drones- I tried to replicate it in a new one, but I can't get the repair drones to come out and fly around the ship, which is the state in which they need to be for the problem (vanishing when passing through a gate) to happen.
I figure you folks know the actual conditions under which the drones will launch, so it'll be easier for you to reproduce it than for me to do so.