These poor fools have been down there for goddamn years looking at data that eventually becomes repeated, for 2 whole years. And considering that there's always the same fool on the right saying how glad he is that he's going to go back to Haven, I'm going to go ahead and assume that they have been stuck down there for this entire time. No rotations, no break periods, just looking at a screen that occasionally goes 'blip' and writing down when it happens and where it happens and what it readings are. Day in, day out. Do you really want to be the person who has to go up to them and tell them that "Hey guys, the LT says that due to people feeding all their Dark Matter, Crimsonite and Luminite to their BattleSprites all Gate-creating stations are being shut down and the Clockworks are to be left to rotate by themselves. No minerals fed into the Gates mean that there are no energy pulses left to monitor. Ergo, the reason why you guys haven't sensed anything is because there is nothing to sense. And no, I don't know why it took us this long to tell you. You can stay down here if you want, you're still not going to do anything of use other than sit on your bottoms and look at the big glowy ball of metal.