TheRainmaker
Using it is a hard task due to the lack of a proper interface, pushing random dials and buttons seems to little effect, in fact, the pannel appears to only posses eight dials and a hole with an omnious glow from it.
gearshift48
Moving the plates seems to open an aperture down the center, which reveals more of a small cillindrical chamber tha glows the red ominous glow, it seems to have a single, golden pin in the center
gearshift48
The door topples with a loud metallic thud as metal clashes against metal floor, revealing a room the exact same as the one Zeta and the others are in, however, there is a single humanoid corpse hung over the control pannel, with a red suit underneath some broken plates of metal, it bears a sizeable, triangular herlmet.