yep, but what i was hoping for Is a way to do this within combat. There is tactical repair and strategic repair in the schema defs, one of these seems to allow repair of hull in combat.would like to do this with defenses.

Probably like a shield capacitor, redundant storage, I don't know how you could restore armor unless you applied it to the same tech that does hull repairs that it can also repair hull plating as well. Missile defenses are not feasible to begin with because they're physical objects, but when you get to laser point defense that would be easy to restore with a defensive power booster