A hangar makes sense, all things considered.

[Gene's brows raised slightly at the description of the unsettling room.]

Aside from coffins? [Because, unfortunately, that's very much what the hourglass cocoons reminded him of.] ...Maybe something medical, like a type of hyperbaric chamber. It'd make sense, if it was the same size as the cocoons. Or maybe a sort of specimen container, if the place was geared towards research in space.