No instruments

The Vuduri space tug, first introduced in Rome's Revolution has no actual instrumentation. Instead, all instrumentation is virtual and displayed on a large flat-screen panel built into the console in the cockpit.

This concept has become increasingly popular even in today's airships culminating in the cockpit instrumentation for Boeing's 777 commercial jet.



As you can see, most of the readouts are just screens. There still a few mechanical dials left. These dials would be autonomous, analog instrumentation such as an altimeter, fuel gauge, horizon/attitude wheel and perhaps a compass. You would want these as a backup in case the electronics failed.

The Vuduri spacecraft have no such backups. I guess they figured if the electronics went out, you were doomed anyway so why bother building in mechanical instrumentation? We already know the Overmind was too cheap to build probes to search for the cause of the stars disappearing. If it wouldn't spring for something to save the entire Solar System, why would it spend money on a measly person or two?