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Once Mooney had gotten off the service ladder he was met by a pair of more alien females in this time a purple-red jumpsuit uniform. They exchanged a look between themselves taking in Mooney’s appearance before his UT would finally translate their sing song like words of speech =/\= A male alien, in any other situation I would love to get a full body scan of your race! =/\= The one said with an excited like song quality.

The other nudged the excited one. =/\= We do not have time for that unknown word behave yourself. While the First did not mention these aliens also had male’s among them we should not assume all life is like ours in development. =/\= the second one more politely sang and said. Turning to regard Mooney she continued =/\= Forgive unknown word, possibly a name it is just among our race the male part of our species died out over before we evolved into more intelligent developmental stages. In either case come, our unknown word, perhaps equivalent of ‘medical bay’ is nearby.=/\= She stated with a right out hand gesture to follow.

“ I am sure the Captain will be willing to share information about our, and other species physiology after she address the situation at hand.”

The now three only walked a few feet before they came to a primitive double airlock door. Likely showing the alien’s had not yet developed effective filtration systems in their life support in case of sickness or such. A primitive setup for sure, and slow to move them inside the room as the airlock decontaminated with some kind of antiseptic air before the inner lock opened. The bay was small of course given the alien ship’s size, about 4 beds of sorts held patients with a fifth on a small padded cot off to one corner. A covered body was in another corner, likely the dead the First spoke of previously.

The first alien who had been formerly so excitable turned. =/\= The five injured were near a plasma relay so their burns are quite severe across 30-80% of their bodies. Unknown word, likely a name and I =/\= She said gesturing to the other female alien =/\= Have done what we can but I am sure compared to you our medical sciences are lacking no doubt! Please if you can assist them in any way feel free to do scans or such. =/\= She said.

GM CockRoach

looking to see that the wounded appeared stable, Mooney approached the deceased, “How long has she been dead?” Knowing full well their measurement of time was likely to be radically different, and the UT would not yet know the conversion. It was simply habit. As he worked the hand scanner over what he hoped was the bodies brain and then chest. “Would you let us move your casualties to our sickbay? It would be more efferent than bringing a treatment team and their equipment here.” Keying his tricorder to relay its reading to lieutenant Saark,.please be still here, no one deserves to die so young. He silently prayed as he worked.

There was a confused sing song tone to the first question from Mooney something the UT probably couldnt translate properly. When he would ask it again the UT seemed to do its job right and there was another reply =/\= Oh you were asking how long the deceased had been in passing? About two standard days by our time of counting. =/\= the first alien female from before answered.

Scans of the dead showed they had been deceased for about the time stated, given the decay rate was limited a preserving agent was likely in effect to slow decay and smell. That said scans probably gave an estimate of 60 hours since death roughly approximating that the aliens single day was about 30 hours long in theory.

Moving to the next patient he continued his triage.

MCPO Mooney

Scans of the living once he moved onto them showed they were in a medically induced coma. Given the amount of burns and trauma on the female aliens bodies was close to 50-80% in places this made sense. A series of gauze pads was on much of the burn sites giving the female aliens a sort of appearance like mummies wrapped up. Going off the scans the injured probably could be gotten back on their feet within a week or so of treatment using the Merrimack’s superior medical science. Much of the genetic markers seemed consistent for safe treatment. The second female alien doctor spoke up about this point =/\= The burn victims we think will never fully heal by our medical sciences, such burns and injuries are too severe though we’ve done all we can to make them comfortable. If and when we return to unknown word, perhaps a planet’s name we will see their care turned over to the Elder of unknown word to continue what life remains to them. =/\= She sang out.

GM CockRoach