Phase 2: My Brown Dwarf Concept

Okay so a while ago there was a thread about a gas planet or brown dwarf with an extensive lunar mining system. Some issues got brought up and I think I have worked them out.

Leviathan, also known as Vera II, is part of a binary star system, but orbits at an oblique plane, only minimally disrupting the orbits of the several planets of the system's primary, Vera I. Vera I is a healthy, middle aged star, but none of its planets are habitable due to the influence of Vera II, a brown dwarf with a complex system of rocky satellites rich in various deposits of valuable minerals needed for the construction of radiation-resistant shielding for large transports, cargo vessels and heavy military spacecraft. Each moon (or several moons, in a few cases) are claimed by a different mining corporation with its roots somewhere in another star system. Technically the whole system is agreed to be neutral territory by all the local powers. The satellite system of Vera II is the only place in the whole system where humans live, and none of Vera II's satellites are Earth-like. The miners live in pressurized and radiation-proofed environments, including domes but also extending to pressurized underground tunnels which have grown more elaborate over time as people have built communities in the mines. The mines are also home to a blind, sonar sensitive breed of highly intelligent dog, called the Sonarhound, which is sort of the mascot of the Vera System.

SO that's a pretty good rundown. Now fire away. Any questions on how this place supports itself would be welcome. I'm trying to make this not-quite diamond but respectably hard.

I figure when Vera II's orbit brings it close to Vera I, everyone leaves for a month or so and comes back when the Brown Dwarf has cooled off, hoping their homes, deep within the rock, are still intact.

You've got a duplicate thread.

Yes. I do. You explain technology to me.

I've accidentally clicked the submit button twice before, actually.

Everyone always wants to blame the human; like their vaunted computers are perfect. I'm a romantic. The computer is a but shallow imitation of the human brain. :)

Do they have FTL?

Yeah but mostly they're stuck on the planetoids running mining equipment, growing their own food, etc. T Here's not a lot of FTL use within that system, just getting there.

What do this story's versions of Dave Lister and Mister Rogers do for a living? (That is, a space bum and a beloved representation of all that's good and right in the world.) How do people live under such conditions - permanent or semi-nomadic (as much as a resource procurement conglomerate can be) settlements?