Posted by Captain Rende Asam (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Sickbay: Five Days Later

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SICKBAY SUMMARY — Kreed, Hart, Asam, Dovick

1. Staffing & Environmental Anomalies

Attending physician NE Lt. (j.g.) Sovak (Vulcan) did not arrive for duty and is unresponsive to repeated comm hails.
His absence is considered highly anomalous given Vulcan behavioral norms.

Multiple monitor malfunctions observed:
Displays pulsed with static twice in quick succession, repeatedly.
Pulses were later confirmed to be synchronized with similar anomalies on the bridge.
No internal power or hardware fault identified at time of observation.

1. Lt. (j.g.) Zaril Dovek — Medical Status

Presented earlier with extreme, escalating hunger:
Metabolic scans showed accelerated nutrient absorption far beyond physiological norms.
Hunger projected empathically, causing nearby crew to feel hunger as well.

Neurological findings:
Abnormal neural compulsion bursts synchronized with external subspace harmonic frequencies.
No internal pathology or known disorder identified.

Treatment:
Sedation and metabolic suppressants administered.

Result: stabilization of vitals and suppression of empathic projection.

Post-sedation condition:
Conscious but groggy.
Reports feeling cut off from emotional field, likened to sensory deprivation.
Hunger reduced but not eliminated.
Despite medical concerns, Dovek was ordered to the bridge by Captain Asam.
Leah Hart escorted him personally due to instability.

1. Lt. Leah Hart, NP — Observations & Actions

Identified and reported monitor anomalies.
Escalated Sovak’s absence to Engineering, Security, and Medical Command.

Called in Dr. Kreed (CMO)

Escorted Dovek to the bridge while maintaining Sickbay continuity.

1. Captain Rende Asam — Medical Admission

Captain arrived in Sickbay escorted by Security.
Declared herself “compromised” and formally relinquished command to Cmdr. Alden.

Behavioral and physiological indicators:
Elevated heart rate, adrenaline surge, temperature instability.
Maintained physical distance from others; strong fight-or-flight response.

Reported symptoms:
Hearing discordant music without external stimulus.
Empathic perception active even in silence.
Emotional dysregulation and uncharacteristic aggression:
Attempted to brig her yeoman.
Drew a weapon on bridge crew.

Placed under medical custody by Dr. Kreed.

1. Dr. Kreed’s Neurological Findings

Cortical hyperactivity, especially in auditory and empathic processing centers.
Continuous auditory cortex stimulation with no sensory input.
Detection of subspace harmonic resonance embedded in neural activity.
Frequencies match those found in Dovek’s earlier metabolic event.

Neural scans revealed:
Two overlapping emotional/neural signatures:
One belonging to Asam.
One non-humanoid, external, phase-shifted but synchronized.
Autonomic system responding as if under psychic assault.

Sickbay equipment briefly synchronized with her scans:
Monitors pulsed twice.
Privacy field shimmered.

A faint tone perceived in the environment:
Not mechanical.
Described as the sensation of sound rather than sound itself.

1. Current Medical Conclusions

The anomalies affecting Dovek and Asam share a common external origin.
Effects appear personalized based on neural/empathic sensitivity:
Hunger (Dovek)
Sound/music (Asam)

The phenomenon:
Is not internal pathology.
Exhibits intentional rhythmic patterning.
Is capable of interacting with biological and ship systems simultaneously.

1. Status

Captain Asam under medical observation.
CMO Kreed actively investigating neural/subspace interface.
Dovek ambulatory but medically fragile.
Sickbay remains understaffed and partially compromised.
The anomaly is escalating and no longer confined to a single individual or department.

Cpt. Asam, CO

OOC: I technically still have my med NPCs in Sickbay, but I don’t know if I’m needed. Should I still be here? ~Linds

OOC: There is information there, but Asam is sedated and unconscious and Dovek is on the bridge. So for right now, nothing new is happening here.

Cpt. Asam, CO

The hypospray hissed softly.

Captain Asam’s body went slack a heartbeat later, tension draining from her frame as the sedative took hold. Her breathing slowed, deepened. The rigid line of her shoulders eased, fists uncurling at her sides. The discord that had twisted her expression smoothed into something almost peaceful.

Almost.

The biobed adjusted automatically, supports shifting beneath her as the monitors recalibrated. Vital signs scrolled into stable ranges. Heart rate down. Respiration steady. Cortical activity dampened to safe parameters.

For a moment, Sickbay exhaled with her.

Then the monitors pulsed.

Once.
Twice.

The lights dimmed—not enough to trigger an alert, just enough to be noticed. The soft ambient hum of the ship dipped in pitch, then returned, as though something had passed through it and moved on.

The privacy screen shimmered faintly, static crawling across its surface before resolving back into clarity.

Captain Asam did not stir.

But her neural readouts did.

Beneath the sedation, a secondary pattern persisted—low amplitude, steady, and unmistakably not random. A harmonic trace threaded through her limbic activity, cycling at an interval just slow enough to evade automatic alarms. It was no longer chaotic. It was… ordered.

Waiting.

Across Sickbay, equipment returned to normal. No alarms sounded. No systems failed. The moment passed so cleanly it might have been missed entirely—if not for the way the air felt afterward.

Heavier.
Closer.

The duty roster still blinked near the entrance.

Lt. (j.g.) Sovak — Beta Shift — Pending.

No response.

Somewhere deep within the ship, something adjusted—like a hand turning a dial by the smallest degree.

Sickbay remained quiet.

And the Captain slept.

Cpt. Asam, CO

The red alter klaxons blare and Sickbay takes on the slow red pulsing. [O]“All hands, this is the Chief Tactical Officer. We are vacating this position immediately. All hands prepare for evasive manuevers.”[C]

The first sign is not dramatic. It is the biobed. As the warp engines strain and fail to pull the ship free, Sickbay’s deck plates vibrate—just faintly. A subtle harmonic tremor passes through the hull. Not turbulence but resonance.

Captain Asam’s vitals spike. Her heart rate jumps twenty beats in a single second. Her fingers twitch. The sedation monitor registers increased cortical activity despite stable dosage.

Then, the biobed pulses twice. The same double-beat that has echoed through the ship since Sagan’s Veil began reaching inward.

Her neural display lights up. The dampened secondary pattern — the harmonic thread embedded in her brain — amplifies in direct correlation with the bridge’s attempt to disengage. As engine output rises, so does the activity in her temporal and auditory cortex. She is unconscious, but she is reacting.

Her lips part slightly. A sound escapes her — not speech. Not breath. Low. Sustained. Almost subsonic tone. The monitors begin to echo it. Across Sickbay, equipment flickers in rhythm with the sound emanating from her body. The privacy field warps briefly, distorting like heat over metal.

Her hands clench. The tone rises in pitch. Captain Asam’s eyes snap open. Completely black. No iris visible. She does not appear conscious. Her gaze fixes straight upward, unblinking. And in a voice that is not strained, not discordant — but perfectly clear — she speaks:

“Leaving is not permitted.”

The biobed alarms finally trigger. Then her monitors flatline.

Cpt. Asam, CO

Medical personnel rushed to the captain’s side and began life saving stabalization. The inter-ship comms buzzed to life. [O]Sickbay to Lt Kreed. Medical Emergency Code Blue. Repeat Code Blue, Lt Kreed to Sickbay. It’s Captain Asam.[C]

Cpt. Asam, CO