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I'll proceed as if you're telling the truth until proven otherwise. I'm getting gate engineers on the line now. Do you know how to have the station computer send files through the link?
Incoming: Step by step instructions on how to bring up a station map in an image editing tool, and stream the main display to the other side.
Cam marks an outline of the hole blown in the side. These bits are just gone, he sends.
Alright, we'll get blueprints for that. My engineer has arrived. He says the only important parts are that you have the equipment in the entanglement room set up right, which diagnostics say they are, that the station has as little angular momentum as possible, and all 30 alignment coils in pristine condition and zipped up, powered and cooled. The exact details of the engineering behind it don't matter. Is a part number and installation guide for the coils good enough?
I've been corrected: No angular momentum except around the center axis, like a wheel. It can be spinning for artificial gravity just fine. And then a part number and full text of the owner's manual equivalent come through.
Cam goes and puts them where they go.
He'll have to clear away miscellaneous debris and damaged parts and other things. And either bring the other three reactors online or replace them with more of his thorium plants. This thing consumes one heck of a lot of juice in full-on gate mode.
Once that's done, time to fire it up. He can only do this from the control room as a security feature, unless he completely rips out and redesigns the computer systems.
Lyl Jupiter clarifies that this is only to test whether he fixed it correctly. They'll be a couple of months building this gate's opposite number back in high earth orbit.
"We can't just take one off the assembly line if we want it to be compatible with the dinosaur on your side."
"So, the reason I didn't just make a replacement entire space station is because I didn't know if the entanglement had to be established in advance with physical colocation, but I can actually just do that, if these things are things you can assembly-line."
A different voice takes over. "No, no, it does work that way it's just the- yes, it was ceramic spheres. Just the spheres that have to start colocated. They contain each end of the entanglement, and the rest of the station extends it into a sort of film. But this link is a three-centuries-old design and can't use modern gate systems seamlessly. New style entanglements are smaller and thus lighter and thus much much cheaper to send on fast interstellar trips."
"...Probably. You'd want to be very very careful. Don't spin them, don't subject them to any sharp acceleration. But that wouldn't solve the problem. We don't have the right systems on our end."
Lyl: "Not two?"
Engineer: "Not without a whole lot of overtime."
Lyl: "I see, four then."