Checking on the Dashon family.

Posted on Friday December 4th, 2020 @ 4:33pm by Captain Tobias Bishop III & Lieutenant Contessa McQueen

Mission: The Forgotten Outpost
Location: Quarantine ward, Sickbay.
Timeline: Current

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Doctor Contessa McQueen checked on the Dashon family, they were almost ready to be released from Sickbay Quarantine. Their freighter had to be destroyed, but the company was replacing it, seeing as how the cargo they had been ordered to pickup and deliver was riddled with dark matter mechanical biologic entities.

Dashon smiled at Contessa and said. "We owe our lives to you all, and those beasties we have no clue where they came from. "

Contessa smiled and said. "I am just happy we were able to beam you all away and into medical transport for 24 hours. You will be here for another 48, as we make certain, that you have recovered. "

Della smiled and waved at them as their meals and medications were beamed into their ward.

Contessa nodded and went back through decontamination, and then into a change of uniform.

It had been a very long shift. And she had a virtual date with Serrel. ... wine and a game of chess.

As she departed the ward and made her way into her quarter's, she pulled on a shawl poured a glass of wine and tapped the incoming message. Sitting down, she greeted Serrel.....

Contessa, sipped wine and chatted with Serrel.... They old friends from kindergarten, he suave and dashing as ever. She , still beat him at chess. Although, she was inclined to believe that he.....let her win.

They listened to Moonlight masquerade, and talked about him possibly being near DS3 in a few months. Serrel, the lead surgeon on the USS COMFORT SFNSHS 01, she had interned with him during a pandemic, she transferred off the Science ship Equinox Dawn, to assist in triage for a nasty pandemic that had taken thousands of Liknn Taro lives...

As they discussed surgical procedure and music to listen to during surgery, she looked up and said. "The level of hemorrhage in patients with improper coagulation..... Serrel, still bother me... We should get with that Denobulan doctor who came up with re-sequenced plasma for stabilizing coagulation in patients with none."

Serrel nodded. "I agree with you, the level of loss is unacceptable in that species "

They continued to discuss past surgery, triage and a year of hell they both still have night terrors about....

As the night ebbed away, Serrel and Contessa, consultants and logged their respective recommendations on the cases.

As they closed communications... Contessa rose from her sofa and made her way out to the promenade... She noted new shops, as she walked around. Her lavender dress floating around her a chiffon cloud as she made her way round the station.....

She thought this stations past history... she also thought about those spiders... she made her way onwards.... her mind going over research so far and that damaged freighter. She shuddered slightly, there was something going on in this sector of space and it had far reaching implications for everyone.......

The hypermalaised viral biologic elements with extremely advanced nano technology that had infiltrated the cargo vessel, was from a highly advanced civilization of what could only be described in Layman's terms as one of the highest advanced blending of Bio and mechanics, this made borg tech look like kindergarten in the face of the information from the samples ....

Contessa looked up from her PADD...... "Where is their point of orgin from?" She whispered as she continued to go over the data.

She tapped the communique system and forwarded the information directly to the Station Commander Tobias Bishop. "Sir, samples in sickbay reflect a highly advanced blended biological and mechanoid species. Which diet consists of Metallic diet with a protein base. I have in trials slowed the process down by souring the metals with Analipton
Radiation, and flooding the samples with delta radiation. Recommend we enhance this Station with as much deuterium free alloys as possible......"

:: To Be Continued ::

Doctor Contessa McQueen
Chief Medical Officer
Deep Space Three