[8] High Tech (Medical) Infoshare

[dogbane]

[Since coming out of the Jump with four years of new memories and six months of isolation, William has organized his thoughts somewhat. Most importantly: happiness requires survival. Apart from that, some nebulous but helpful facts about manifestations and the way that Clarke Griffin's life sucks unadulteratedly lately. He has this on his mind when he gets to typing.]

william tsang again. i'm a dr. now but you can just call me william.

for the past 3 weeks, ms. clarke griffin and i have been working on using manifestations to replicate equipment and supplies. we've determined that magical effects won't manifest (e.g., potions), but functioning technology can be duplicated to the extent that the person knows what the fuck they're doing. the effects will outlast the manifestation. although we haven't worked a lot on anything besides what the department needs, this probably applies to other stuff you're interested in.

please share your tech specs, but don't leave advanced weapon details unlocked/unfiltered. you may want to direct those remarks to xg, sec, or gunnery. thanks.

do you have an intermediate-to-advanced understanding of biochemistry, physics, and technology as it relates to medicine? let us know. we may have some stuff to share with you. thanks to the regular occurrence of disasters/emergencies, most of our work is focused on triage, mobility, and crisis stabilization. the medical bay is equipped to provide practice.

our current replicable medical inventory includes:

- procoagulants
- handheld cauterization devices (heat, but also laser, chemical)
- defribillators
- epinephrine/injectors

these resources may be extremely helpful while we have our abilities, but dangerous too; again we need you to practice until it works or not fuck around. we may also be able to advance your knowledge thanks to our new abilities. dr. bones mccoy and tadashi hamada are especially tech-savvy, and might be willing to provide more guidance. i will be consulting about manifestations of tech that's more invasive or is of risk disproportionate to the scenarios you're likely to need them in.

again, galadriel is deputy cmo should i be kia/whatever. cheers.

OOC: Corresponding mod note here. You can also fire me questions/corrections via Plurk/PM. Sorry for the spontaneous name-drops, Medbay! Note that ~practice~ involves cloned tissue rather than human experimentation. I can start a log if you like!

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[tadashiwashere]

If anyone has at least a rudimentary knowledge of programming, I'm going to be trying to manifest a healthcare assistant. He's equipped with a defibrillator and advanced biometric scanners among other medtech. I'm going to attach a file later this evening with the full specs and building plans assuming my experiment to manifest him is successful. I'm in the middle of an actual rebuild, but I have another month of work before he's operational.

Not sure if anyone aside from me will be able to manifest him, but I can try to be on hand when we need an extra set of hands to have him help out.

[dogbane]

well shit. why are you gendering your healthcare assistant if he's a defribillator with some scanners attached?

i mean i await your file upload with baited breath.

but for all of our avid audience here.

[tadashiwashere]

there's only so much time you can work on a project before you name it and start planning what school he'll go to when he grows up.

Attachment: SkeletalBasics.jpg
Attachment: BaymaxAI.doc

[tadashiwashere]

My initial test run for manifesting Baymax ran about 1m45s. It lost some of the complexities of the original, but I think if I can improve the longevity of the manifestation, Baymax will still be useful for emergencies outside of the medical bay.

[dogbane]

fucking good.

professor xavier is recommending that multiple people have a go at sharing the psychic load, but i'm not very up and up on robotics or mechanical physics. and mccoy's already telling me off-- well you can see for yourself.

i'll let you know if this practice is frying my brain before you get much further.

[goodgodman]

Hey. This is McCoy, we haven't met yet.

I can't exactly say I'm in favor of playing with the weird shit our minds can do now. We've got no clue about the long term shit this could do to our minds. But. It's not like we got a ton of choice and in a dire situation it could save a life.

Maybe we can set up some kinda workshop for people interested.

Also I'd like to see this 'healthcare assistant' idea you've got going on.

[tadashiwashere]

Tadashi Hamada. I'm looking forward to working with you in the future.

I have some concerns about long term effects, as well. If it's an emergency, you're right -- we don't have many choices. I would rather be prepared.

I can send you more details. Alternatively, I can show you the skeletal structure I've already completed in my lab. It's close to the finished product, but it's taking some time to finish machining the actuators. Adapting to the computer systems here has been the real struggle. I'm still not certain my coding will be compatible. It's worth a shot, though.

[hacker]

Talk about using your resources. Did you come up with this?

[dogbane]

more like grasping paranoidly for resources i haven't got.

i suppose! to be honest, i think it was the ship's idea and the ship is a brainwashing murderous mass-kidnapper, so probably my casually dropping words like 'so weapons specs' around is actually part of some horrifying and inexorable fateful

ok.

shutting it with the gloom and doom but you can say something saucy if you like.

[hacker]

i'm sure i could come up with something about weapon sizes if i tried, but i'm more interested in what you mean by the ship's idea. everybody talks about it like it's this living thing, but do you really think it's in our heads?

[dogbane]

well for one thing it seems to've had a deleterious effect on your sauce.

no. well i suppose i'm being-- a lot of us are being lazy with language in a way that isn't helpful. i don't honestly think it's the ship itself, but something inhabiting, animating the ship. another passenger, maybe? multiple entities? i'm not sure any of them are alive, honestly. when i've picked up blood and other samples in the past for analysis, it's often done this weird fucking thing where it vanishes over the course of the jump, no matter how locked up tight.

and the lab equipment hasn't been able to recognize any matter was present. as if there wasn't a single molecule there. strangely at odds with some of my science department predecessors, who were able to get a genetic breakdown of manticore blood.

your head's better off than mine, according to charles x. it got me pretty good. a lot of us went out on recon ended up changed. vulnerable to compulsion.

sorry, love. i know that's a lot.

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[forgodssake]

very good notions.
how's the staying power of the objects you manifest so far?

(dr?)

[dogbane]

not great. we're averaging at around 5 minutes. although i managed to keep a laser up for 20 yesterday. i think keeping the focus on fast-acting, crisis-stabilization kinds of equipment that produce self-sustaining effects will be fairly standard across the board.

[With weapons too, he means. But it doesn't feel nice to go on about it, so he doesn't.]

oddly the greater/more lasting successes have given me headaches. i think clarke too, although she's got a very stiff upper lip.

(yes.)

[forgodssake]

you should have a go together on one thing, see if you can't share the burden
but I see how it would be more suitable to emergency settings
I might be by later to practice

(well done.)

[goodgodman]

You know I think this is a bad fucking idea, playing with shit we don't understand yet. For all we know we could be frying our brains with this mind crap. I'd like to do more testing before we go flinging ourselves out a proverbial airlock for the hell of it.

Maybe we should have a full on Medbay meeting. If we can get some readings while we're making these manifestations, see how the brain is coping after the fact, I'd feel a lot better about it.

I can't deny that having our tech available to 'manifest' in an emergency could save a life.

psst if you haven't already feel free to ask on the mod post about the scan results c:

[dogbane]

good notion.

i did give myself a bloody big headache just now. and i've got scans say some effects on the ship have left significant changes to neuro-anatomy before, not the least of which is-- well, in the interest of privacy, i'll want to show that to you later.

saving lives is my motivation, for fucking sure. but you're right, it's best to have as clear a picture of the cost involved as possible.

ah THANK YOU I'm going to read up on that! ty ty :D and sorry he's yelling at u

[goodgodman]

You gave yourself a damn headache pulling this shit? My god man, you're the CMO on this flying hell hole, you ought to think twice before throwing yourself headlong into something that could kill you. [ Leonard is aggressively not mentioning all the times he's thrown himself into danger in similar ways. ]

Can someone there look you over? I can come in and run some tests, wait there.

2/2 private;

[dogbane]

have you met charlotte daniau?

mousy girl. she might of run away when you tried to say hello.

[goodgodman]

Can't say the description is ringing any bells. I'm heading to you so you can save it til I get there unless it's urgent.

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[lifescience]

Hello William. Biochemistry was my specialty back at the academy. I'd be happy to assist if at all needed.

[dogbane]

certainly! nice to hear from you again, jemma, [this after a very hasty scroll through his own comm device to solidify his vague recollection of their history. It's brief, but he should remember it.]

for medbay's part, anything you can think of for maybe pain relief, wound stabilization, that sort would be good.

[lifescience]

I can most definitely do that. Out of curiosity, are there a great deal of patients there at the moment?

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[inafadingcrown]

A doctor now, is it? I gather congratulations are in order?

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[dogbane]

oh yes thank you ms. deputy cmo. it took quite a bit of school and a dangerous space internship that was interrupted by a solar flare and pirates.

important credentials, though. maybe nearly worth it.

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[inafadingcrown]

You cannot be accused of lack of experience, at the least.

I should hope this need not be said, but please do be safe. Aside from the fact that I have grown quite fond of you, you will send me into a panic if I am suddenly required to oversee all of this advanced technology myself.