[Video, but could just as easily be voice. All that's available to see is a table and a bunch of pot plants and occasionally a green elbow.]

The latter two serve as readily as the first to explain what this place is. There will eventually be an old man who answers to 'Marquis' along to explain how this is not a prison, using only his narrow experience of what imprisonment actually is.

Ultimately your captor is the Admiral. He rarely speaks and is not seen.