The emptiness was unsettling.  Walking slowly, Linna continued to take readings, until they came to the large bulkhead leading to R&D.  Opening a port on the right side of the door, she slid a small, narrow probe through to emerge on the other side and take readings, which came back as green.  "Looks clear to me."<br/><br/>Flora nodded, kneeling down to pull a panel off and expose a hand crank.  With a loud groan, the door began to open as she wound the crank.  It was slow, and when the door first started lifting, air rushed past carrying the smell of death and decay.  The door parted on the outside to either side, while an inner door slid up above.  Once they had enough room to get through, they locked the crank and proceeded through to the other side.<br/><br/>R&D for a station like this would be broken up into several sections.  Their first stop would be the fertilization chambers, to try and find any viable genetic samples that could be used aboard the Halifax.  They repeated the procedure on the lab door as they had with the first bulkhead, and went inside.<br/><br/>The sight inside the room was scary.  A laboratory went around a sort of pit, with what looked to be a gyn chair on one end and a thick bulkhead on the other.  Blood was all over the floor infront of the chair, and obviously whatever had been in that chair hadn't fared too well.  Around them, there was equipment that looked old but perhaps salvageable.<br/><br/>Also strange was that  there were several dormant machines scattered about the lab, carrying everything from cleaning tools to weapons to medical tools.  Linna shuddered as she went around and began activating the machines, trying to figure out what was being worked on in this strange lab.