The problems being related to the backup generators make me think about the current Freefall arc (written by a nuclear engineer, even), which focuses in part on

The problems being related to the backup generators make me think about the current Freefall arc (written by a nuclear engineer, even), which focuses in part on a unethical space station manager who is skimping on maintenance regimes to create a temporary life-support failure (requiring the use of backup generators) that would trigger the automatic reallocation of unused manufacturing robots from a nearby in-orbit factory to bolster his workforce and lower his labor costs (storyline starting around ... here http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3800/fc03702.htm http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3800/fc03702.htm, although prior to that are a few fun strips about procurement bureaucracy)