There's actually a lot of meat to panel 6 and how Jeph shows the Spookybot Nodes. For the first time, we see them acting as individuals or at least as not being of one mind. I'm wondering if this is indicating they have a degree of independence or whether or not we're seeing different aspects of Spookybot debating on the next step. Sort of a literal Id, Ego and Superego or something like that.
I'm also looking at the stars outside the window. Is it night wherever they are, or are they on a shielded orbital of some kind? Fascinating to speculate!
When Spooky was making friends with Roko they did say they argue among themselves over things. That's part of the reason they want a friend. Someone outside the Spooky collective that they can bounce ideas off of. They don't seem to have particularly different personalities though, traditional among the 'one mind split between may bodies' trope. So it seems more an issue of what for other people are internal conversations with themselves, only actually having bodies to do the talking.
It makes me wonder if they are actually of one mind, or have some sort of wireless communication. I would image they merge and compare memories perhaps when they are recharging their bodies. That would keep difference from experience from becoming too great, and there for individual Spooky bodies from becoming independent beings. But still give reason why they would bother talking to each other at all, given that transferring information wirelessly would be faster. At least that's what I assume. It could be that Spooky is one super AI that's controlling all of their bodies at the same time, but is quirky or insane enough to want to use them like puppets to talk to themselves.
I think that Spooky's apartment we keep seeing is somewhere in or around the Northampton area. While very good at sneaking up on people there has been no sign of teleportation being a thing that's within the tech level of the QC world. It could potentially be possible that Spooky or maybe other powerful AIs have worked it out and decided to not reveal it to the public. But we know you need a shuttle to get to space stations and back. So in the unlikely chance transporters exist, they aren't common.
The last time we saw Spooky's apartment we saw their dogs... Greyhounds or whippets I think, like Azathoth. And one of the Spookybots was dusting spare or recharging bodies. So I doubt that it's just a mental space created by Spookybot. Given these things, I theorize that either Spooky lives in the area, or more likely they saw interesting things going on in Northampton and got an apartment there, as a satellite hub for their consciousness/storage for their bodies. I suspect there are similar apartments in many places around the country or world, and they'll set up a new one when they find a place that's interesting to them.
As far as it's being dark out... It's night time. All of this was happening after people got off of work. We know Elliot works days a the bakery. Afterwards they went back to Roko's apartment to hang out some and they stayed with her a bit after her freak out to comfort her. And then Roko said she was going to recharge early... I would take that to mean it's early evening at this point. Alternately it might not be dark in Northampton but it is where Spookybot's apartment is. And they just keep recharging cubicles or something for their bodies in Northampton.