The next bunch of work I need to do for this scene involves creating very much non-human models, namely a shuttle (no not a Star Trek one) to put in the right hand background. After that some more personal affects to scatter around the desk, two employees for Paula to talk to (lecture) and other odds and ends to provide some human entropy to the scene.
Paula is the overall Managing Director of Operations for the starport. She is a rather sad person in that her husband disappeared twenty years before this scene along with his ship, the crew on it and the passengers. Nothing is know about their fates and Paula spends every day hoping they will all turn up someday. She lives alone and only eats what she can get from the many food stalls around Star Town as can be evidenced in the picture (takeout box on desk left hand side).