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Archived reports indicate a bomb threat shortly before the link went offline. Do you believe that the threat was legitimate and the cause of the disruption?
If Cam doesn't ask it anything, after three and a half minutes, Assistant Stargate Commissioner Lyl Jupiter is now online. Her messages will be subject to approximately two seconds of lightspeed delay.
In a different text color: Hello, Cam. Sounds like you're not in danger or needing anything immediately. Is that the case?
Excellent! I think it's very surprising that you managed to repair a dead link, especially on a low-infrastructure world. The whole web had written G seven-two-one off as a dead end. Not nearly as habitable or resource-rich as it looked from a distance and probably everyone was going to die out, so no re-establishing mission was sent. The answering machine says you want plans and specs to repair the gate itself. Can I ask where you'll be getting the parts and material? Some of these things are very tricky to make.
Not without a significant body of proof. Getting this far is a point in your favor on that count, though.
Well, I have magic powers. I can make whatever you can specify for me.
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.
Can you use the pointer to mark sections of the station that are damaged?
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."