What are/do maintenance points?

[nerezzar]

I'm using small craft for quite some time now.
It might be, because my Wing Techs got the MP preventing skills early, but I never encountered maintenance points in the game at all.

How do I know that I have a maintenance point? How do I repair it? What does it actually do?

[fallen]

nerezzar - MP is repair that is not Hull. You can see them by hovering over craft. At this time, they are simply tucked into the cost of repairing.