Posted by Ensign Mike Jones (Medical Officer) in Main Sim [Sickbay]: The Price of Existence

Posted by Captain Rende Asam (Captain) in Main Sim [Sickbay]: The Price of Existence

Posted by Lieutenant Jericho Semenza (Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim [Sickbay]: The Price of Existence

Peter nodded slowly then pointed his head at Kalika towards the turn then turned around and saw the Captain enter the room, years of training kicked in and he almost stood at attention at the unexpected visit.

Rende entered sickbay and paused when the door closed to take in the scene. Hofmann, Kalika, and Jones were with Sacco. She hoped they were getting some answers there. She saw a flash of medical blue in Hab’rabi’s room and moved that way. She stood in the door way, standing perfectly still, but her eyes roving the room. Hab’rabi looked like he’d been dumped, albeit carefully, on the biobed. He was a rather large specimen after all. Semenza was over seeing him. And that young Betazoid doctor was curled on the floor, looking like she might be sick…again if the smell of cleaner and vomit in the room was any indication. Had the warp field been that harsh on those affected? She moved over and knelt down next to the young doctor. “Are you alright, Lt?”

Standing she looked over at Semenza, “Lt Semenza I need to speak to you, privately. Can someone else on your staff come help the Lt and watch over our guest for a moment?”

Rende, CO

“Captain, You’ll want to hear what Doctor Fayth has to say, she received a vision from Hab’rabi, it’s…” He hesitated “Worrying. Do you know where I can find commander Kohr?” He asked mostly to let the Captain know where he would be going without explaining why immediately.

CIO

Rende paused, “A vision? Did he harm her?” Betazoids were a wonderful people but always seemed to be in the middle of things. Probably because people relied to heavily on their telepathy. “I just left him, he was in his quarters.” On her way past him she spoke low, no need to spread information too far, “Cargo Bay 2.”

Kalika hadn’t seen the Captain’s arrival. She frowned at Sacco a moment then nodded to the nurse. “He’s definitely going to need to answer more questions. But I’m finished now. If you need anything, the security officer left here can help.”

Kalika turned and moved to tap a query on the nearest console to find where the Security Chief was. He needed to know this. And they needed to make sure that no one else touched the guest, if Sacco’s reaction was any indication what would happen.

Kalika
Security

Semenza nodded to the captain, waving over Ensign Jones to take his place. “They seem fine, any of the doctors should be able to stand in for a moment. What is it you need, Captain?”

~ Lt Semenza, CMO

Rende led the doctor to his office and waited for the door to shut. “This is restricted information Doctor. There are more survivors of Hab’rabi’s people on board his ship. In cryo stasis. We also have reason to believe there are hostiles on his ship. It is not ideal but you need to be prepared to receive those survivors in case we have to beam them out to save them. Also prepare for casualties. Quietly, we don’t want to tip our hand and put our own people in danger.”

“What happened to Lt Fayth and Hab’rabi?”

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Semenza crossed his arms, leaning his weight on one leg. “If Hab’rabi caused this much of a problem for our ship already, how can we prepare for more of them? We still haven’t found any way to stop the motes’ effects on our own crew.” Then he frowned. “The warp field… I’m not sure why, but it had rather a violent effect on both of them. They collapsed and threw up. My scans indicate they’ll be alright, but…” Semenza shrugged, frustrated by the lack of information.

~ Lt Semenza, CMO

Rende nodded, “Yes he has, but he came to us fully awake and thawed out. His crew is not. They are in cryo-stasis, so they will be asleep, and they will need a safe environment to be moved to, if we should need to move them before they wake. And no we haven’t, but perhaps you or one of your doctors can come up with a way to disrupt the connection. We don’t want to harm anyone though.” Rende was no doctor, but she was educated enough, “It doesn’t seem to have affected the whole crew. Was anyone else who was in contact with the motes affected?”

Semenza nodded without any idea how he was going to manage that. “Yes, Captain.” Then he nodded to answe her second question, “I believe so, but not as severely as Lt Fayth and Hab’rabi. Those two got the worst of it.”

Rende was puzzled as to why. Hab’rabi because he interacted with so many of them certainly, but why Fayth? She was sure Semenza and his team would find answers.

“I am confident in your ability to come up with an answer doctor. Now Cmdr Sigmundsson said Hab’rabi related some information to Lt Fayth. Is she well enough for me to speak to? After that I want to speak to our guest.”

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“She will soon be if she isn’t already,” Semenza said with another nod. “Hab’rabi I’ll want to check on first, but I have no doubt he’ll be able to speak with you.” Then he could get to work with his team to find the answer they were looking for. A way to disrupt the motes’ connections…

~ Lt Semenza, CMO

Rende nodded, “Thank you doctor. I will go see her. Please let me know when I can speak with Hab’rabi.” Rende made her way back towards the room where she had seen the young doctor sitting on the floor. “Dr. Jones,” she nodded to the other Dr in the room. “I need to speak with Lt Fayth. Do you think she’s up to it?” Semenza had given the okay but Jones was in the room with her so if something had suddenly changed Rende wanted to be sure first.

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Mike looked up and seeing the captain sought to make a good first impression by snapping to something resembling standing at attention. “Um Oh yes ma’am … I mean Captain ma’am. ” Frowning then he took a deep breath and said in his best forced tone of calm assurance. ” Certainly, Ma’am I know of no reason not. I was just leaving to grab something to eat so you will have plenty of privacy.” Mike then hurried toward the exit of sickbay. Probably not his best first impression but it had been the only one head at the time.

Ensign Mike Jones Med.

“Thank you, Doctor.” Rende smiled at the young officer as he scurried out. It never changed. Young officers were always nervous around the senior staff. They all put their uniform on the same way and it hurt when you got hit with a phaser or a punch, or tripped and fell when the ship got rocked by solar waves. Now with the go ahead Rende gave a glance to Hab’rabi and then moved over to speak to Dr Fayth.

After checking with Dr Jones and on Hab’rabi Rende walked over toward the dark haired doctor. She was concerned that she was still on the floor and no one had helped her up yet. Semenza said that the static field had really done a number on Hab’rabi and Fayth. Hab was passed back out, was Fayth still ill?

Rende bent down, curiosity and worry tinging her aura. “Cmdr Sigmundsson said you had quite the story to tell.” Rende reached out to place a hand on the young woman, but hesitated. Rende was aware of the strength of this woman’s gifts and apparently she’d been through quite the roller coaster already. ‘Would it be easier to speak this way to me?’

So the doctor had been visited again, and again with more memory and control than anyone else. Due to simply being telepathic or the strength of her unique gifts? “Do you think you could communicate with the remnants directly? Enlist their assistance?”

Rende listened as Fayth described the memories that Hab’rabi had shared with her. She stopped her several times to ask questions, drawing out details. The retelling of Hab’rabi’s greatest sorrow rocked Fayth, overwhelming her, and Rende set a hand on his shoulder. The grief, sorrow and loneliness had become Fayth’s own. It moved Rende, but she’d had centuries to learn to separate other’s emotions from herself and to ignore it until the time was right. “Tell me about the wraiths. What they were like, their behavior, what they said, from the beginning. Only tell me those things.”

Rende nodded, it’s how it had sounded to her the first time she heard it. She would send Korzak in to talk to Fayth and see if he could pull anymore information from Fayth. What was of more concern was the massive strength and vicious attacks that worried Rende. =/\=Rende to Kohr. Hold! Sigmundsson has information for you. I’m on my way.=/\=

Rende stepped to the door and looked around, “Lt Darz!” When the officer walked over, “I want you to go down to engineering and talk to En Weir. He’s got scans for four different energy signatures. We know what three of them are, but the fourth…go, work with him, and track where they are, have been, when each signature first appeared on board, and what it appears they have been doing, where they are going, what happened where they were.”

Rende, CO