[The compliments seem to go a good way towards making down relax, at least, especially with Futaba talking pretty knowledgeably (if slightly opaquely to someone who isn't from Gaming Culture) about the tech.]

Well, a lot of it - this entire side, pretty much - [Down gestures at the left bank of three large screens and a smaller one.] - is for running the exploratory drones we use to investigate the Fissures before we send anyone out there. Then there's some data analysis of the station itself - power usage and so on...

[They don't seem to realize that they've started to smile a little.]

Probably half of it is for the communications network, but it's easier to just run the whole thing from one place.