:: Moving into the next lab, Cortez had to physically pull open the unresponsive doors to get access. What was revealed was something perhaps even stranger than anything they'd seen to this point.<br/><br/>:: The lab had been taken apart. Not violently, not randomly; the lab benches and cupboards has been meticulously disassembled part by part, and their metal pieces laid out around the edges of the floor in a curious pattern whose meaning, if any, was not immediately evident. The lab's tools -- microscopes, measurement and artifact-prepping instruments, vials and beakers and various other items of the exo-archaeologist's trade -- lay further into the room, again forming a strange, whorling pattern.<br/><br/>:: In the middle of the floor lay a set of alien artefacts, smooth and matte-black in curving shapes reminiscent of ammonite shells and ranging from a few inches to over a foot in length. They were arranged in a figure-eight pattern, with the largest artefact -- something that looked almost like a scepter -- set in the centre.