Sector 37 General Hospitaliers

Tson

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('ere steady on there are only 5 troopers to a squad, that's a whole squad you've effectively neutralized there)
sergeant Goldd: "AP ROUNDS, AIM TO KILL, FIRE ON ALL HOSTILE TARGETS REPEAT FIRE ON ALL HOSTILE TARGETS"
The troopers open fire with their weapons firing on full-auto, AP rounds tear through the air and any unfortunate Kragan that happen to be in the way, two go down instantly, another is riddled with holes but manages to drag itself off into a side corridor
Sergeant Goldd: "Pressure visors down, Get the Vacc cover on that stretcher, Trooper Vert, blow the seal on this corridor."
One of the troopers with a nasty looking large bore portable mass driver places the weapon against the wall of the corridor, he fires then brings the weapon away, the power assisted armour he is wearing allowing him to against the cold vacuum that is now rushing into the corridor, automatic Blast doors seal their section of the corridor off, and any Kragan left in this section either die of asphyxiation or explosive decompression
Sergeant Goldd: "Well, at least we have gained some breathing space now"

Meanwhile Adams is still working on his "Patient"
Adams: "Hang on... AH! I think i may understand..."
He aborts the nanobots, stopping them from destroying any more of the virus cells, instead injecting the Kragan with a Neural relaxant, then attaching his Portamed dispensary to it's arm, he chooses a mixture of Neural suppressors and calming hormones synthesized from the Kragan's blood and starts treatment, he then does something rather strange, he attaches a small diode from a device he produces from his backpack to his left temple, and another to the Kragan's neck at the top of it's spine, he then attempts his theory...
(Adams theorized that the virus itself may be sentient and is merely trying to defend itself, of course he may be wrong, but he is now attempting to communicate with it)

Lieutenant Steel and his party appear to have encountered no resistance and have now reached the control room, their HUD's constantly scanning the surrounding area for heat signatures

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Tson
(The virus is actually sentient. So sentient, that it is actively trying to kill the Kragan, because it understands that it would otherwise die out.)
Kragans have very strong claws, and some have been able to climb through some shutters to escape the vacuum, but at least 3 Kragan Corpses are now laying there... The Doc tries his best to stop the Kragan, but the brain just keeps BOILING and getting HOTTER and hotter. Not much time left...

(Also, Kragans are literally the most dangerous species on Krag. Here some Infos that could help you:
-Living and Hunting in packs of 5-6
-Attacking out of the Dark, encircling their prey
-Able to jump and climb very easily and elegantly
-Fight like cats, but have the social behaviour of wolves
-Look like giant Wolves with 6 Teeth showing out of their jaws)

Drakador_Chaos

Tson (Just remembered the Hospitaliers still have the TATC equipment they purchased.)

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++Understood++
The shuttles dock, they begin to disgorge R&D Decontaminant troopers onto the hospital ship, they are dressed in normal trooper armour with Ecosuits over the top fitted with special TATC quarantine modules, they set to work securing landing areas by releasing Stumm gas into the corridor sections they are boarding in effectively neutralising any threats, they then post guards at the landing area and appear to wait.

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Outgoing transmission to TATC corp
++Hello this is major Kamenov Parsz of the Sector 37 General Hospitaliers, we are experiencing problems with some sort of virus outbreak and i was wondering if you could help us, two of your personnel previously helped us secure and contain a previous similar outbreak and frankly, well i was wondering if you could spare them to help us again, unfortunately i dont know their names but they delivered our order of TATC equipment so i guess you will have them on file, we will of course settle with you financially after the outbreak has been contained, many thanks, Kamen.++

Tson

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(what about Steel's party? what did they find at the bridge?)

Adams detaches the diodes and gets up
"Hmm... well, i suppose there is nothing to do really, i'll just have to observe this."

Sergeant Goldd: "We've just had orders to pull out, cut us out of here"
The squads use laser pistols to cut through a section of the hull, then using their magnetized boots walk along the outside of the hull to their shuttle, entering by the external airlock
Pilot: "You took your time, what the hell's going on, i've got every light on this damn ship burnin like a christmas tree."
Sergeant Goldd: "Retract docking tube but do not pull away, stay on course level with the hospital ship"

A small convoy enters the sector and proceeds toward the hospital ship
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++Hello this is major Kamenov Parsz of the Hospitaliers R&D Division, requesting permission to dock with quarantined vessel++

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Tson
(oh sorry overread that part...)
Steel and the others have found a small creature rundown of the Kragans, and what seems like a map showing the lab, where the virus was searched upon..
The Kragans Brain boils completely, killing the Kragan and frying all virus cells. But there are more infected Kragans in the Room.*

"Permission to dock is given, but your colleagues on the shuttle cant pull off, they might be infected..."

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Tson
Nothing is coming out... It seems that the Kragans have, after seen one of their kind get knocked out by stumm projectiles and sniffing the stumm in these projectiles, understood that they will lose bodily controls and after sniffing this in the walkways, they pulled back until the gas cleared and mixed itself with the gas to a concentration level that isnt harmful for them. This kind of adaptive behaviour has already been observed before...

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...a transmission returns only a few moments later, on the visuals a middle-aged man wearing a TATC uniform...
/Transmission Start/
Greetings Hospitaliers, first of a few questions, standard procedure...
Are you currently at war on in conflict with any other factions?
Are there any more information about the virus outbreak, for example, symptpoms, position and spreading?
Lastly are there any other possible dangers in the area?
After answering these questions we can discuss the payment of this operation.
/Transmission End/

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++Certainly, we will pay what is required.++

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Adams remains on his guard, and whilst waiting for instructions examines the various Kragans in the tubes (without opening them obviously)

Steel and his team try to broadcast a shipwide message to see if there are any more survivors

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/Transmission Start/
(He tapped a few more things mid air, then stopped) Very well, contract confirmed. Our employees will arrive soon.
/Transmission End/

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...soon afterwards a group of TATC ships arrived in the Hospitaliers system, they sent a TATC verification code to the present ships and stations and then moved towards the Karagarian Medical Frigate...

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Drakador_Chaos
++Sorry for the late reply but things are a little hairy here, no we are not currently at war with anyone, we are a neutral organisation and only ever enter conflict to try and save lives not take them, the outbreak in question seems to only seriously affect one species, a wolf-like pack oriented animal known as a "Kragan" which when under the influence of the virus becomes dangerous and agressive, there is a potentially unknown faction with a small fleet here which would be the only other possible risk but they appear friendly as it is they who asked us for help. I think that covers everything.++

Drakador_Chaos

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/Transmission Start/
Very well, now that this is sorted out...(he moved his fingers through the air using a holo interface invisibale to the camera)...
Well, considering there are mild danger levels that´ll be an additional 20% ontop of the usual price, equipment expenses will be calculated afterwards. This would make...120.000 credits for direct deployment of two TATC members. Do you agree?
/Transmission End/

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Doc notices one Kragan that is not trying to attack him furiously... In fact it is trying to move away, frightened, like a normal animal. Maybe it isnt infected, but why?
(Do humans get knocked out by stumm gas?)

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Tson
...the weapons began powering down then a transmission was sent, on the visuals you see a young man with short purple hair, wearing a TATC uniform his eyes were completely black apart of his purple glowing irises...
/Transmission Start/
Greetings we came here due to a mission by the Hospitaliers we request docking the medical frigate Nazan, in order to resolve an virus outbreak.
(He paused for a moment.)
...it would be helpful if you could provide a complete set of biological data of both races that were originally on the ship.
/Transmission End/
...the man didn´t look that extraordinary apart of his uniform and his eyes, though as the Hospitaliers knew the TATC employees were capable of much more than it would initally seem like...

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The Karangarian Ships receive a transmission from the hospital
++This is Sector 37 general hospital, we would urge you to reconsider giving such orders to our allies when they are in Hospitalier territory, such could be construed as an aggressive act, thank you, that is all++

Adams walks over to the scared looking Kragan, making sure not to make contact with it, and tries to reassure it

(Humans do get knocked out by Stumm gas unless they are wearing respirators, however, the Stumm gas released would have effected only a relatively small area otherwise they would have been at risk of knocking out Adams or any survivors of the attack)

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++Thank you, you are cleared for approach++

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Drakador_Chaos
one of the frigates opens a channel:
"Thank you for coming. Please specify what your next move is. Also please power down your weapons, standard procedure, we're sorry for any inconveniences this may cause..."

Drakador_Chaos

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Tson
(Ironically the TATC had to deny the request of helping the Karagarians directly, though it was valid once the Hospitaliers requested the mission as they were not in conflict or at war with anyone currently.)

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"It was not an order, but a request. We appreciate any help with this problem."

The Kragan seems to be frightened at first, but then, starts to come closer, interested and curious. It seems to still been a puppy. Maybe it has some kind of natural immunity to the virus. Doc could surely do something with that...

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Tson
...the Lynx Vessel starts docking the frigate and two 4 TATC employees leave the ship, once they entered the ship retreated a few meters from the frigate waiting there...
...two of the members seemed to be already know by the Hospitaliers, a man and a woman, they wore TATC uniforms and had several small bipyramidical objects embedded in their belts apart of that did not SEEM to have anything else with them, the other two also had a TATC uniform even though they looked slightly different, they also had a similar belt and held an object that looked like some kind of highly advanced energy rifle, they were completely black apart of several glowing purple lines running along parts of the weapons and three glowing pyramidical crystals on one side...
...one of the escorts took one of the objects from his belt and placed it midair where it stayed, floating, a few moments later it started eminating a calm light, sufficient enough to light up a whole corridor, while the already known man started contacting the Hospitaliers...
/We have arrived on the ship, what is the current situation and where are you?/
Then, once more, a transmission was sent from the Lynx-vessel to the Karagarians, this time it was someone else on the visuals...
/Transmission Start/
It would be beneficial if you could send us the bio-data soon, it will help speeding up the process considerably.
/Transmission End/

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Drakador_Chaos
(oh ok that's interesting, i will have to remember the way TATC Bureaucracy works...)

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Tson
...the Vessel received the data and redirects it at the group in the ship...
..."Received the data, this should help." ,the woman frowned, "Something is here."
...the other of the escort now removed a cube from his own belt he threw it into the middle of the corridors and for a few moments it radiated a dim purple light...
"Set up particle veil, whatever it is, it should be showing up in the HUD in a few moments."
While saying this the group moved closer together the escorts assuming a battlestance with their weapons up...
(he just set up a particle veil, it essentially sends out a continuous stream of lowly charged particles that latch onto all surfaces in range, be it synthetic or biological, the particles reactions and movements can be tracked with the HUD installed in their armlets, oh and please, do not assume things in regard of teh TATC members)

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Tson
...the woman contacts the hospitaliers, /It appears the virus has mutated and can now infect other hosts it would be beneficial if you activate the armlets if you didn´t do that already/
...the man looked at her, "I will try to extract the virus now."...the woman stood back from the infected and waited, while the man palced the device on the infecteds head and activated it...
(the device can extract cells and materials foreign to the body of an organism and places them in a sealed cryo-container, the downside is that it occassionaly removes implants and similar things if they are not registered beforehand, that´s why they needed the biodata.)

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Drakador_Chaos As a full rundown of the species is being sent over, the two employees feel like they are being watched...

SPECIES PROFILE: KRAGAN

Living on the Homeworld of Krag, this is a large carnivorous pack hunting species. They like to hunt in the night in packs of 5-6. The average shoulder height is 4-5 metres. They are the alpha predators on Krag, which has a humid, tropic climate.
Using the shadows to their advantage, they attack out of the dark, and can surprise even the most skilled hunters. Their large teeth maul everythin caught in them.
They have efficient metabolisms, able to stay for a long time without food, but still being agile and elegant as big cats. They often use the ceiling or upper areas to attack from or other unusual ways to attack and are very adaptable and intellegent.

They CAN be tamed, but this is a hard process and is often only able to be done, when a small pup or helped in great need.
Once tamed they are fiercely loyal and because of their size can be ridden without a problem.
They also can climb easily and jump long distances.

DNA extract included.