The Pinicon Belt

You transport aboard the station, knowing that if you're going to use the alien technology you'll likely need to see about getting power working. But accessing the database and finding out what they did is also a key. The away team materializes in a corridor between the archives and the power facility.

The other away team (of four) materializes near you, tricorders out and scanning. They're going to focus on the Sculptor (their name for the aliens) dimensional apparatus, leaving you the database and power tasks.

The unusual and spartan color scheme, lit by your EVA suit lights, gives the truth to Aurin-Ah's assertation. Everything here is roughly proportional to the mainly humanoid shapes of beings that the Federation has encountered. Still, the style alone tells you of alien design, with strange pictograms possibly indicating function. Still, without power, you're not going to get doors open by pressing the right sequence. For now, it's prying them open manually.

The power facility opens with two of you working in concert, to roll the door into the left bulkhead on a hidden balance point. This large chamber contains a vast array of machinery and equipment, much of it floating in the zero-gravity environment. A large, roughly pyramid-shaped chunk of crystal dominates the center of the room. An entire section of wall opens into space, presumably torn away by an asteroid collision, affording you a view of the Pinicon Belt beyond.

Examining the machinery requires a Reason +Engineering task with a Difficulty of 2.

Aurin-Ah surmises that the crystal in the center of the room powered the entire station, much like a dilithium crystal but on a more powerful scale. The crystal, composed of an unknown material, appears inert but largely intact and capable of storing power and transferring it to other parts of the station.

Momentum: 12
Threat: 4

Aurin-Ah is exactly on the right track. The crystal and the systems seem intact, but there isn't any power within it to use to power the stations operations. You'll need to devise a way to transfer a large quantity of energy into the crystal, which can then shunt the energy to various systems, such as the Sculptor apparatus, the archives, internal lighting, or artificial gravity. Restoring a breathable atmosphere to the station becomes possible as well, but you'd have to deal with the gaping hull breach.

The breach in the station’s hull is large enough for the away team’s runabout to maneuver close enough to the crystal to initiate a power transfer. Doing so will require some advanced piloting, however. The character flying the craft would need to complete a Control + Conn Task with a Difficulty of 2, assisted by the ship's Engines + Conn, to move the runabout just outside the breach without crashing into the station.

As to Drake, he sees from his tricorder readings that the other crew are at the Sculptor apparatus, and appear to be laying out a bunch of machinery. They also have a lot of phaser rifles, two each, so they may be equipping for an assault.