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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3498186" data-attributes="member: 19675">First: decide whether the installation is military or civilian.  A military installation may have robot guardians etc., a civilian one is less likely to.Second: a lab is a dangerous place, even without "traps"- imagine a 3 year-old left unsupervised in a good high-school science lab.  That approximates what it would be like for a human to stumble on the lab of a culture 1000's of years ahead of them.  Just because something looks familiar doesn't mean it is.  Ditto empty.  Or safe.That "coffeemaker" in the corner could actually be the lab's container for micro black holes...Third: What if someone else stumbles onto their find, and has no respect for their claim...or what if that someone else had found it first, left, and is just now coming back.  "Mirror Matches" can be quite dangerous.Fourth: What if the owners don't operate in time the same way humans do?  IOW, what the party thought was abandoned was actually just set aside for a "lunch break"Fifth: Any of the above could be accentuated if the lab is actually bigger than they think.  What if there are other "wings" connected via teleporters?  Or if the lab is just one side of a larger architectural feature made with one or more tesseracts?Sixth:  The place wasn't abandoned- the scientists were killed.Check out some Sci-fi stories, series and movies: Star Trek, Babylon 5 and other series have pointed out the danger involved in abandoned military installations.  The old movie The Forbidden Planet featured labs that operated under the concepts of point 2 above.  Some of their child-development testing devices were lethal to humans.  The Cube/Hypercube movies involve a tesseract system, as does the Dr Who series.  Point 6 could be seen in X-Files, The Thing, Pitch Black, Star Trek, Starship Troopers, Stargate SG-1, and countless Larry Niven stories, to name but a few.</blockquote>

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