Oh, I missed that you'd already tried. I was going to try, realised you had the skill, and failed to edit out my roll… which missed anyway. I guess I'll go back to the 'Card, get some tools and the repair 'bot, try to break in the old fashioned way…
Rulebook only covers commercial rates for hirelings. We're shareholders. Anything left after the operating costs of the ship are paid gets distributed to the shareholding members of crew, everyone else being waged (I.e. Adeline). Not sure about Ajit's status. Bring a Ship Share?
As to when we divvy up… After we do maintenance here?
No Ajit doesn't have any ship shares. He does have 22,000 Cr (0.1% of a ship or 10% of a ship share) and his skills as an engineer to offer. Maybe he can make a down-payment for a ship share and work off the rest of the cost by making repairs and such to the ship (Labor costs are expensive, not his, just in general)?
Should offer new comers a ship share.
Maintenance first but only as a percentage of our gross income, say 70%. Then the remaining 30% is divided as appropriate amongst wages, ship shares, and then a small fraction to be invested.