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Post by ~ ADMIN on Jul 7, 2010 16:51:52 GMT -5
It’s been over a month since the incident on the Oceanic, and the crew are making progress on discovering the causes of these rifts and anomalies.
After a mass tactical movement by the terrorist group R4, it is clear that they are affiliated with these rifts and anomalies – whether they are the sole cause has yet to be discovered.
The other crew members have been called to Aqua Marina, a city on Beta Cygni, to a school which is dealing with the outbreak of a disease with no known cure. They believe it is being caused by resistant nanobots, injected into the children’s blood stream, but they could be wrong.
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Jessica Lewis
Kiri Brooks
Mei Tao
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Post by jesslewis on Jul 7, 2010 17:13:38 GMT -5
School children. These terrorists really didn't care who they hurt, or who got mixed up in this battle of theirs. It was disgusting that they'd target children like this, especially with a virus, a particularly nasty one at that. So far, the observer symptoms had been a fever, a cold sweat, nausea and eventually vomiting. The children were suffering from dehydration as well, and looked like they were at death's door - only they weren't dying, they were just suffering, in a horrific way.
Jess was in the school's medical wing with a small medical team (minus Penn, who was off investing, but plus Mei Tao, who would be a big help with the science side of this), tending to the children as their condition worsened. New cases were springing up every hour or so, and children were having to be kept in their rooms to try and stop the out break. None of the adults had come down with the disease, which meant it was definitely targeted at children. How or why, Jess wasn't quite sure.
"How is everyone getting on?" she asked, walking through a flurry of staff, wanting to see how everyone was doing. |
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Post by kiri on Jul 7, 2010 17:50:30 GMT -5
Kiri looked up from the cot she was kneeling beside, capping off the syringe in her hand and slipping it into the case on the floor. It joined a row of similar syringes, each with a blood sample from an infected child. If she was lucky, a close inspection of the blood would reveal whatever unknown component was causing the illness. Of course, she'd have to perform said inspection lacking many of the tools she was accustomed to. How she would love to have the massive electron microscope from her lab back home, capable of photographing the very proteins that made up the DNA within cells. She'd be lucky if the one she'd cannibalized from the Venia could get her to the cellular level.
"This one could use another saline bag for her drip," she said, knowing full well their supply of the hydrating solution would only last so long. As she rose to her feet, her spine cracked and her muscles protested. Forty-six hours. Forty-six hours since she'd joined the medical team on the planet, and forty-six hours since she'd last had a moment to rest, or more than a mouthful of protein bar to eat. But there were things to do, and more children fell ill every hour. There was no time for luxuries like sleep.
"I need to get back to the lab and check in with Mei. These fresh samples will hopefully work out better than the last batch." They'd tried examining samples earlier that day, but the heat and the humidity in the ramshackle tent they were using for the "lab" had ruined the blood, the delicate cells liquifying under the stress. Maybe this new batch would fare better, now that they had everything set up and ready to work quickly.
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Post by karen1 on Jul 8, 2010 20:49:21 GMT -5
Mei's eyes hurt, but whether it was from staring down microscopes for the past two days or from lack of sleep she wasn't sure. She sighed, rolling her head back for a moment to un-kink her neck. It didn't help much, as she knew she'd just have to lean over the telescope again. Instead of setting back to work right away, she thought about the situation they were in, tapping her pen against her leg.
The poor children here, falling ill over seemingly nothing. Suffering from fevers and nausea and God knows what all else. Simply suffering in general. Those terrorist asses would pay for this. Turning an infection on an unsuspecting colony was one thing, but turning it on solely the children of the colony--now that was just plain wrong. She didn't know how they could possibly live with themselves.
That thought pushing her on, Mei stooped down again, examining the spoiled blood-samples in hopes of finding something, anything, even just the smallest shred of something useful, that could help them figure out what was wrong with the children, her pen poised to write down anything she found. She glanced up again, however, as someone pushed their way into the tent-made-lab. It was Kiri, carrying what appeared to be more blood.
"Thank goodness," Mei sighed, stabbing her pen through her bun and standing up. "These blood-samples are getting me nowhere. How are the children fairing?" |
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Post by jesslewis on Jul 11, 2010 5:31:35 GMT -5
Jess nodded as Kiri spoke to her - Kiri had proved herself to be a valuable asset to this team, and disease outbreaks like this were her speciality. If need be, Jess would certainly defer to her experience and direction, she trusted Kiri to know more about this than she did. "Take your time," she told Kiri, grabbing a saline bag for the child, "the sooner we figure this out, the better." She wouldn't say it out loud, the children were still conscious and could hear her, but she wasn't sure how much longer they were going to hold on.
Taking another round of the room, she checked in with a nurses, and got updates of each of the children. The child which first came down with the illness was worsening. They were as white as the sheets they slept on, and barely conscious. Jess moved forward to read the stats on the machine when the child started convulsing. Jess and another nurse reached forward to restrain the girl, and once the nurse had a grip, Jess checked her vitals, "she's having a seizure." It looked like her vital organs were about to give out. The girl stopped convulsing and the monitor flatlined. "She's gone into cardiac arrest. Begin CPR." They would do all they could for this girl, she wasn't going to let her die. |
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