Chapter IIa: Absolute Disaster

"Commander! I am not sure. Their bodies exhibit signs of extreme continuous stress over a long period of time, almost a week, and almost all pigments are missing from their bodies as if they had been sucked out of them. What's killing them is that the brain seems to be barely connected to the body. They're not breathing on their own, their heart is not working on their own, almost all natural processes have stopped and I can't say why. I can't find anything wrong with them that would explain it. I'm keeping them alive right now through medical equipment but that won't let them survive for long."
You can see that Belka is sweating and appears like he's in over his head. "I've never seen anything like this before!"

"EVERYBODY! TO STATIONS!"
Marbos voice breaks the rushing chaos of the sickbay as he enters the door.

"BELKA! TO SURGICAL STATION THETA! INTERNS! MAN YOUR ASSIGNED DESKS!"

Nobody on the ship has probably ever heard Marbo yell before, but the chaos in his medbay has riled him up, as well as his own self-anger because he took a nap. Good doctors dont nap.

As he enters the sickbay, all four of his arms are pointing wildly and directing traffic, while he speaks so fast it sounds like hes almost talking over himself. "Get one of the survivors to stasis, actually, scratch that, Lt. Comm. Darcy is in there. Interns, i want antibiotic sedative injections an hour ago. Belka, get the young woman to surgery and perform a full suite of tests. If lifesigns drop, administer adrenaline and antiobiotics. The pirate will be relocated to my station."


Marbo grabs the gurney with the still surviving pirate on it, two of his hands pulling the gurney, one of them applying his respiratory protection system, and the third spraying the other three down with an antibacterial chemical wash mist.

It takes him a few minutes to clear the sickbay, but he gets his patient into an operative position and begins to run scans on it, checking the heartrate, brain impulse levels, and other indicatiors for whatever there is going wrong inside these prisoners.

Once the scans and other tests return to verify what belka has said, he looks to commander cassano.

"Commander. Zlam. Please come here, i would like you to witness whatever is occuring to these people."

Marbo grabs a Las-Scalpel, and checks the pirates vitals.

Marbo's presence and decisiveness helps everyone calm down a bit and organize their work better. You should also have another stasis pod unless that was your ship's chosen weakness.
I also forgot to mention, on a bed to the side, there's a man in spacefleet security uniform with huge, terrible burns on his exposed arm. It looks like he was being prepped for surgery but then abandoned in the chaos

"Might get a bit...Messy.

One of marbos hands swings a spare apron to Cass, as well as a face shield and mask.

"Surgical log. Zlam. Stardate 2575-4-9. Received personel from captured pirate vessel. Most dead. One civilian and one pirate alive. Operating on pirate now. Chance of survival, slim. Must find root cause and save civilian life. Stasis unavailable. Captain still occupyin chamber."

Marbo takes the Las-Scalpel and begins an incision, his lower two arms manipulating sterilizer and a pair of surgical tongs, his upper two holding a scanner and the Scalpel. at some point, he has popped a glow-light into his mouth like a cigar, using it to see better where he is cutting.

As he makes the incision, he carefully uses the tongs to pull back the flesh of the pirates neck at the base of its skull, curious to see what nerves are intact and how the brain is operating without any external stimuli.

Lt Yang gives you a thumbs up with his good arm. He seems to be in pain but doing okay.
As you walk up to join Marbo and Cass, a nurse steps in your way and says: "Chief, while we can use all the help we can get here, it would probably make more sense for you to figure out what happened. The transporters must have malfunctioned or something! According to the away team, they were all fine before they were beamed over."