[hiro motions him over to the control deck, heading through the doors and taking a hard right over to the wall where two medium-sized control panels are.]

These are the controls for the alarms and the sound system I installed. The alarms go through six different colors for six different alerts.

The blue one only goes off in the hall, docking bay, and cargo hold. It means someone's docking with the ship.

[he's starting to cycle through the alarms on silent mode now, making quick work of his invention's controls.]

Green for gas leak, yellow for fire. Those two are the "evacuate immediately" alarms. The orange one goes off if something large enough to damage the ship is coming toward us. Red means we've taken damage.

[then he points to the big red button the control panel he's on]

This one is the manual alarm. If there's any kind of emergency we need to alert the rest of the ship about, we hit this, and the purple lights start flashing. It's also hooked up the communications array to send out a distress beacon. When the fleet got attacked, that beacon was probably the only thing that let the First Breath know we needed their cover.

[thank god]

Aaand the second panel here is the sound system. We can play music in any room on the ship.