A base as big as Legion World's requires a lot of mechanical upkeep. They may have a small army, a cyborg, and some supergeniuses about, but there's never something that doesn't need repair or debugging. Especially with people from the Dark Ages wandering about, downloading things willy-nilly without considering that malware is a thing that can happen. Or that not using a coaster when using terminals can lead to liquids getting into the interiors and starting a fire.

Really. What sort of barbarian didn't use coasters?

That's where Babbage can be found. Plugged into a computer, with one set of processes working to debug it, another constantly running tests to see if everything's connected, and most of the rest of his attention on gutting the terminal and replacing the fused wiring that came about when someone's grub juice dripped somewhere it shouldn't have.

Most. Not all. Apparently he's keeping an eye on digital presences as well as physical ones. Once he senses the regular data flow to this node being interrupted, there's a pause perceivable only to mechanoids before he sends out a small greeting package. One undoubtedly designed to be followed up with a sledgehammer of countermeasures if the reply isn't something he'd expect to find in Legion World.