And so, into the tent...
... which on the inside, looks like a fortified command bunker. Everywhere is a 'quiet cacophony', as it were, of nosies and beeps and whistles. It is multi-coloured mayhem all around, as holo-projections fill the area, disgorging statistics and weapon trial results from all around the planet, in a seemingly endless stream of hi-tech feedback. Everywhere also, people and droids are making reports, and you can hear the mass of their collected convos, picking up mere snatches as you walk past.
"Sector 5 compromised; terminate simulation."
"Plasma re-heat reduction is 2.7% above acceptable limits. Re-calibrate."
"... deployed on the left flanks and distorted..."
(a dial is turned)
"... ...ving in inside the next seven minutes."
"Stop-start 0A2! Stop-start 0A2! Hello? Stop-star... thankyou, at last! Stop-start 0A3. Is anyone listening to me?"
A small probe floats past you all, pausing to look at you guys, then C4-O4, then floats onwards.
... anking Clan are hardly going to be impressed if it blows itself up after three minutes firing, are they?"
[I]"Run it again. I want that extra fraction. Besides, the clean-up droids want all the work they can get."
Finally you arrive at an inner area comprised of metal, and a very solid door in the wall marked "Director."
As you draw close, a scan wave emerges and looks at all of you, and there is a heavy clunk! noise as the door unlocks itself, and slides open.
"Please come in," says C4-O4. He waddles inside.
As the door closes behind you when you go in, all noise from the outside ceases totally.
click-click
This room is mainly black. Actually, it is mainly light... the decor is black, but just about every inch of the room is plastered with scanner screens, showing more images from the planet. But each image only persists for two seconds at most before moving on to another.
click-click
From a desk in the middle, a man is watching all these images flow by, sitting up straight in a comfortable chair. Presently, he looks away from the scanners and seems to register your presence.