The whole complex is simply a micro society

There, all main daily activities happen within one space. 

"It's a hangout, but it can be slow, so prepare to get bored sometimes. Most life forms who live there are really nice and supportive, and easy to get along with. Good chance for a hall pass too," s/he comments on the Welcome Habitat with a grin. 

Places are effectively combined to create a hybrid space. Places with two types of qualities, real and sensual lead to four basic permutations, which they treat as the root of time and space, as well as essence and eidos. All means and facilities for relaxation and leisure are publicly shared, they are objects of public ownership and consumption.

While some of the ideas just may sound challenging or even implausible, s/he will make every effort to explain them as lucidly as possible. A remarkable new intellectual landscape has come into view. S/He sets off.

The airlock opens and leads them inside. S/He walks towards a being that looks like a pair of hairy blue spheres. They prepare for are telepathic conversation. They release an unshed aphrodisiac into the air. Their tentacle slides up their bodies. Their tentacles trace back and forth to find the appropriate interface. Their tentacles pull back. They slide up. They start fondling them. More tentacles tie them up until their moans get louder. It is their form to trade erotic stories that included references to antivirals, the decimal system and global climate change. 

"In non-Tardigrada life forms, intelligence, or cognitive ability, is measured morphologically,” she said.

Finally they found that philosophy generally has a closer relationship with aesthetics than with mathematics or natural science.