When spawning a station blueprint if you are not aligned via C inside your ship or astronaut the station will face the direction and rotation of you.
How to reproduce:
Merged report from @33Cav contains more information:
#1
Using the /load command will result in a C aligned spawned station, even if the saved station was not C aligned so that works.
However, using the "spawn station block" button and buying one for 1 million credits will result in a 90 degree rotated station block relative to the C alignment.
The spawned station block will be aligned towards vector (-1, 0 ,0) The C alignment is aimed towards (0,0,1)
#2
no way to align a station in a different way when spawning it in from a bp.
Both ship and station blueprints have this issue. Admin load (through commands/button) or using a blueprint when in astronaut mode doesn't have this issue. Only the blueprint item, when used in a ship will take your own ship's orientation and spawn the blueprint in using that.
For ships this is not a real issue, stations however are slightly worse since you can't edit their rotation afterwards. Adding an admin command to reset the rotation for a selected entity would be beneficial, allowing admins to fix stations on servers without spawning a new one (which doesn't always preserve links, and chest/factory content is gone).
This particular bug now appears to be involved with profound client-side hangs and whole-server lagoffs when a docked entity moves along rails attached to a crooked station.
It seems the only remedy to this issue, is to delete and respawn a station...a process which could really frustrate admins and players, given that respawning requires coordination with players (e.g. inventories, entity naming, shop setups, faction claims, permissions, etc), and aside from correcting angular alignment this process can change a station's intended orientation (e.g. T124 ). Is there a less resource-intensive way to clean up a station's angular alignment?