Alien Containment

Alien Containment is a key facility used to interrogate live alien subjects.

Overview
While the alien cadavers could provide useful biological information, it did little to provide intelligence or insight into the motives of the aliens, for that purpose the Alien Containment facility was constructed. It is capable of housing live specimens brought back by XCOM teams which are then interrogated at a later date.

The facility at XCOM's Canada headquarters housed captives in isolation cells below the main room, when required the pod would be moved directly underneath the containment room and then transfer the specimen by retracting the cell's roof and raising the floor to the containment chamber. Both the chamber and pods are constructed from a thick layer of acrylic glass, with features such as EM field emitters and integrated arc throwers to protect staff from psionic attack and subdue the occupant if needed. The main containment chamber also contains two robotic manipulators fitted with electrode to scan the subjects brainwave and neural activity and a large steel blast shield to surround the chamber to prevent escape. To prevent bio-contamination each pod (and the main chamber) is negatively pressured and can have its contents incinerated if needed for sterilization, alternatively expired interrogation subjects can be transferred to the main lab for autopsy or cold storage.

A side-room connected to the electrodes allows for the raw data to be converted into images and also offers remote control over the chamber controls.