Fuck it, life and limb are overrated. Crack it open!

You heave a heavy sigh and shake your head in resignation. Looks like you have a heart of gold after all. Well, slightly tarnished gold...maybe tin with some gold plating. Well, whatever you wanna call it, you have it and it's making it impossible to ignore that plaintive noise coming from the crate. Looks like your perfect record of being sans curiosity is going right out the window.

With a soft curse under your breath, you move to the crate and unfasten the straps that had held it in place so that you can get to the crate itself. Study of the crate shows that it doesn't have anything like a hatch or door to get it open, but it does possess an electronic lock with a keypad to input a password. Normally, this would be a daunting thing, but you just smirk as you've been breaking into electronically locked places since you were a kid pulling smash and grabs to get by.

So, with the liberal use of a multi-tool, some wire cutters and some fancy circuit rewiring and bypassing, you get the lock open with a spark of electricity. The lock is also fried so closing the crate back up is impossible, but you already went this far. No turning back now, you decide, as, after the final spark of the electronic lock, the whole left side of the crate slowly opens like the landing ramp of a star ship.

The crate opens and you move around it to the now open side of it to peer within and see what you're risking your life for.