Emergency Management Authority
A perennial problem in extra-infrastructure medical care has been providing the necessary intermediate step between field medicine and the care provided by a hospital, where – thanks to the lack of infrastructure – patients cannot be transferred to the latter with the necessary alacrity. The most recent answer to these problems is
cerebral bridge
Gorch steelheading, by any of its various names, originated as a street medical procedure from the freesoil world Gorch (Dinyoza’s Serpent). A retroviral treatment, steelheading affects the glial cells of the brain, causing them to accumulate metallic, particulate iron within internal vacuoles. This serves as an effective countermeasure to
CASE CHYLE
Memeweave: Threats and Other Dangers/Microbiologics/Other/Open Access Classification: WHITE (General Access) Encryption: None Distribution: Everywhere (Bulk) As received at: SystemArchiveHub-00 at Víëlle (Imperial Core) Language: Eldraeic->Universal Syntax From: Interstellar Immunity (Trailing Central Division) This is a CASE CHYLE declaration for the Hope Nebula, Lisune Pass, and
All Good Things
A shadow fell over the city. That was, of course, perfectly normal. It was fourteen minutes before the Wakening hour, and four million people’s deliveries were here, packed into a vast warehouse wrapped in an inconceivable volume of vacuum, wrapped in turn in shimmering white fabric bearing the moé
augmentation
Cydon’s Cyborg Cuisine A restaurant chain catering specifically to those with unusually energy-hungry augmentations without external power sources, Cydon’s Cyborg Cuisine (CCC) provides a dizzying selection of dishes across several Imperial cuisines designed specifically for their, or rather their fuel cells’, special requirements. That is to say, CCC’
addiction
There are those, in the field of biotechnological and medical ethics, who class anagathics as dangerous and addictive, inasmuch as ceasing to take your life-extension drugs results in a plethora of aging-related side-effects, followed by death. The absurdity of this position and the farcical nature of its enforcement naturally ensure
Emergency Management Authority
BROADCAST // GTR CESTIA & PROXIMAL // INFRA UNCLASS ALL ECS STATIONS ANNOUNCE IMMEDIATE PREEMPT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY // ALERT 2049/04/20 This is an EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY alert for all residents of the Greater Cestian continent and proximal regions. This is a QUARANTINE ADVISORY. The Office of Disease and Toxin Control,
drug
While perfection is our delight, perfection is also profoundly dangerous where it interacts with imperfection. In the world of pharmacology, this principle is best represented by two particular drugs, aumbril and thanachav. The former is a perfect euphoric; the latter a perfect disinhibitor. Both, however, are also perfectly deadly – although
gravitic weapon
“Among things that you all can be thankful for is that gravitic weapons are of almost no practical use. Partly this is because there is very little training we can give you in dealing with the resulting casualties – due to the low survival rate – but mostly because the results are
drug
“Unlike chemodrugs, the problem with cutting nanodrugs is that everyone knows what a nanite suspension is supposed to look like. It’s quite distinctive. So unless you’re willing to go the costly route of cutting your nanodrugs with other, slightly less expensive nanodrugs carefully tested for interactions, people cutting
A Star Traveler's Dictionary
cognitive osmosis: The process, according to rumor, by which farspeech or other telepathic or techlepathic contact, especially the forms based in the exchange of neural gestalts, with the stupid causes one, oneself, to become less intelligent. (Curiously, none of these stories ever suggests that this process makes the stupid themselves
medicine
PROCEDURES IN THE EVENT OF IRREVERSIBLE CONTAMINATION In the event of irreversible contamination by biological or nanotechnological plagues, and standard quarantine responses are deemed insufficient, either (a) as declared by consensus of the Flight Commander, Environmental Systems Engineer, and Flight Surgeon, or (b) as imposed by order of a duly