Duty stations

Duty stations can be found aboard starships and within facilities, and are the interface through which crewmen employ (most of) their skills, in the service of their faction. While a crewman must be on-duty to use a duty station, passengers aboard the vessel who wish to 'help out' may access the duty station without restriction (since you cannot go on-duty on a vessel you haven't enlisted aboard). When logging into a duty station of a particular department, the player will be able to choose from a menu of related minigames to play.

There will be several Quality-levels of duty stations, and Captains will be able to upgrade them through the expenditure of merit points. Each department's (and possibly field's?) duty stations must be upgraded separately. A higher-quality duty station will yield higher point totals in the minigames.