[quote=@Audacious] I mean... Okay. *Apprehensively turns and jogs over to where you stand, staying away from the peripherals* [/quote] Alright Vi, welcome... *The machinery unlatches itself and retracts, revealing a translucent forcefield with the same pattern as the one surrounding the planet, whose polygons shrink in place and sputter out* To the lab. *Behind the entrance lies a vast chasm that once belonged to a natural canyon, now buried with a suspended forcefield ceiling and arrayed with complex equipment that extends down into the hazy depths, itself also shielded*