Ames huh? It's been ages since I went to Kepler. You know what? That is a good call, we should try to get in touch with them to see how they handle that kind of stuff. Though I am unsure how good the signal reach is with the Dark Matter all over the place.
For the shielding it could be a modular thing, a suit with a power core and distribution system. The rest modular to either funnel into different types of tools and shielding while the priority is on life support.
For breaches the suit needs to be multiple layers, a bare minimum of 2 that build up onto each other.
The Fabricator building process on the other hand well if you want you can help and look how they do it. Essentially we are doing a smaller scale version of what we have on the Sol with the addition of a testing environment akin to a course holding varying kinds of problems. All within confined and controlled parts of the ship of course, It's a slow process. The systems for the module will be fully manual with near zero automatism.