I rememeber bouncing off Downbelow Station multiple times, because of the high confusion factor and jumping around myriads cast of characters viewpoints--the books starts off with a short introduction about the Company War, then jumps onto the Earth Company Ship Norway with the viewpoint character being that warship's captain, Signy Mallory, who is shepherding a convoy of mutinous evacuated refugees to an unsuspecting Pell Station, aka Downbelow Station. A few pages later, the viewpoint moves to a different character somewhere else, and then a few pages later yet another character.... The view is much much non-omniscient. A few people have perspectives that are wider than the immediate situation they're in and most don;'t even have that--they're the equivalent of characters stuck in a Funhouse with homicidal maniacs running around shooting and setting off bombs....