Enter Test Chamber
Door servos shut - not getting out
you get service cart - something scurries out of it - alien? -

A.M.S.
antimasspectrometer

Countdown -

[Time to look around.]

VOICE 1
(low)

All right, Gordon - your suit should keep you comfortable through all this. The specimen is being readied even as we speak. We will warm up the antimass spectrometer now, and see if we can hold her steady at 80% until the carrier arrives.

VOICE 2
(med)

Power in three... two... one...

FIRST STAGE HUM

VOICE 1

Predictable arrays. Very good. Gordon -

VOICE 3
(high)

Mister Freeman, you might want to stand back from the focal beam during this next phase, suit or no suit.

VOICE 2

You weren't planning on having children, were you, Gordon?

V3

Nonsense! Nothing's been proven!

VOICE 2

Secondary emitters, activating now.

2nd phase of Motion + Sound

VOICE 1

It looks like the crystal sample is ready, Gordon. Look to the delivery system for your specimen.

Rises from floor

VOICE 1

Standard insertion for a nonstandard specimen.
Go to it.

VOICE 3

Wait!

VOICE 2

Capacitors to one oh five percent. Initiating black box messaging.

VOICE 3

What?

VOICE 1

Gordon, we're bringing the analyzer to superoptimal performance. There's no telling how long the system can take it - or how long the reading will take. Please work efficiently.