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While the giant crab next to her prattled away, Terra, halfway listening, she continued to futz with the controls. She had worked out a few of the commands by that point, and was beginning to piece together what some of the runes meant. This was "access," this was "database," so on. As far as alien control systems went, this one was relatively straightforward. She just hoped she wouldn't accidentally deactivate their life support; it could be bad for the others.

Eventually she found what she figured she was looking for: the command sequence to unlock the system computer banks. At least that's what she thought it was as she was entering the command, and only heard Ben's warning half a second too late. The computer attempted to beam all of its data directly into Terra's brain, and she reeled back like she had been kicked in the forehead. At once her fist raised to smash the console, but she restrained herself, instead staggering back a few steps, gripping her forehead. The stupid thing had instantly given her a migraine, which sucked.

The crab continued to blather on, and Terra responded, "[color=ffe556]Maybe my lifeform is [i]too[/i] sophisticated for this system, ever considered that?[/color]" She didn't mean to snap at Ben, but her head [i]really[/i] hurt. She took a bleary-eyed look at the crab again. She was starting to be reminded of her aunt Haluma, who was also a crustacean lifeform. A small concern was starting to take root in her mind. First he had activated the power source of this station. Then he turned out to be the only one that can access its computers without neural feedback. Not to mention he was the first one here. Terra kept her concerns to herself for now, knowing that it wouldn't help to create suspicions now, but she still decided to keep an eye on him when she could help it.

Her head was feeling better by the time that others were splitting up to investigate other parts of the station. The transport system seemed teleportation based, which made Terra wonder if the different parts of the station weren't geosynchronous. They were apparently already floating in a pocket dimension, it wouldn't been any less unlikely that each part of the station had its own pocket.

Striding toward the transporter, Terra called back, "[color=ffe556]I guess I'll go check out the 'testing ground.' I wanna see what they were testing here, and who was doing the testing.[/color]"