Take out the Skaarj in the area, on the left wall there’s a panel displaying a hologram of the ship you’re on. Messages around the Lab make it clear that you’re presence is known. Continue around the corridor and push the red button to call a lift, ride it up and head down the corridor, the cross-corridor ahead has Skaarj at both ends. Lure them in your direction and try to kill them individually. Ignore both passages, they only lead to holding cells, climb the short stairs on your left and enter the chamber beyond them.
There are four other exits from this room. The first exit on the left has a force field at the end that will teleport you to another area of the ship. Enter it and arrive on a long narrow walkway, the Skaarj Gunner ahead will walk away so you don’t have to kill it. Get the Eightball Gun on your left and slide up the ramp before it turns around.
Follow the curving corridor to get some Rifle Rounds, kill the Skaarj ahead and get the ASMD Core and Eightballs in the next chamber, then open the doors ahead. Get the bullets near the next set of doors which open on to a blank wall. Return the way you came and go through the teleporter again. Pass the locked door and go through the teleporter further on the left, explore this new area for goodies. You’ll find that the Experimentation Area is locked, go through the right hand door to access the Research Centre.
Climb the ramp and push the button to reduce generator power and in the room below the doors in the floor will open to emit an orange beam. Leave the room and return through the teleporter.
Follow the passage across from you, kill a Skaarj and grab the equipment it was guarding. Now leave the room and open the door that was locked. Step onto the centre lift and walk across to the door once the lift goes down far enough. Kill the Trooper and open the door ahead, a Skaarj with a Flak Cannon is waiting for you. After you’ve killed it, step on the raised metal square to raise some stairs that will take you to the door above. Open the door, fight off the Skaarj inside, get the Super Health Pack, then turn around and push the button, then head back for the centre lift.
A new walkway has extended, cross it and enter the door to leave for the Mothership Core.