Ad Astra

The Sisters slide backward just in time, and from the way the medical scanner shatters beneath the creature's hand, they're glad they did. Yen'kos is able to focus - these humans have no idea what they're facing, and he does. So as Dr. Davis weakly stretches for the opening, the Grel'lix is able to yank him out of harm's way. As soon as his feet clear, Jonh's code finishes processing and the heavy doors to the medbay slam shut - just as the creature slams into the port window and shrieks. He's even able to send emergency protocol to the secondary and tertiary bays: No doctors working alone, extra precautions, and send someone down here ASAP for Davis. Captain Hamilton nods her thanks to Jonh, but she has bigger issues to deal with.

The security officers called down by the Sisters finally arrive - everything happened so fast - and by now some of the nearby officers are dribbling out of their rooms trying to help. Leya makes a move to contact the Command post on Earth Beryllium, but she stops them.

Give me thirty minutes. I owe them more in the briefing than this. As things calm down (such as that is), you see she's pale. Possible sources of emitters, information on the spikes, transmission mechanisms, and symptoms so far. She points to Modwen, the Sisters, Yen'Kos, and Jonh each in turn and adds with a quiet, choked voice. Please.

Hamilton nods.

Lt. Commander Bruce should be done with her initial inspections of the shipment. Jonh can take you there. But first, are you feeling any exposure side effects yet? Any of you?

Captain Hamilton sighs and rubs the bridge of her nose.

I'll take Lieutenants Leya and the other security officers into quarantine. She opens her palm and you see the rash forming where she would have shaken hands with Grel'lix. Go talk to Lt. Commander Bruce. Figure out the doses you need for the anti-radiation pills. Dr. Davis practically died bringing them out, after all. Unexposed security will set up a perimeter here, and I'll get some medics down to observe it.

As soon as she mentioned quarantine a couple officers started spraying the area and wrapping the negotiators in haz-mat material. Commander Key has the bridge, but report everything regarding this to me directly. Come to medbay delta in fifteen minutes. I need to tell high command.

She stops halfway down the hall and turns back, frustration still obvious through her plastic facemask.

And tell me why the stowaway isn't infected!

When you arrive in Engineering, Bruce and another tech are in the decontamination chamber. She speaks loudly so you can hear her through the sprays, scanners, and glass

Et's not the Antimony etself. Far as we can tell, there are these....particles tha' emit, but we cannae tell what they are. Mah scanners'ave never seen anything like'em. Like how photons are one'er th'other - light or matter - dependin' on tha circumstance. But this is both at once. If et weren't fer tha madness goin' on in MedBay, we'd be up fer tha Gorisian Prize fer sure.


It's supposed to be a joke, but even Bruce doesn't find it funny.

You are directed to a closed off chamber with hand scanners on them. As it reads you and notes your Phi-Rad exposure levels, it crushes the pills Dr. Davis secured and mixes you each a thick, disgustingly sweet slurry with antidote. You notice Bruce is out of the decontamination chamber now.

Ah'm not sure et's much more than a fix, ah'm afraid. If tha contaminants cannae get out, yeh'll be back here soon enough.