001 // i communicate in simple strings

[xenoscientist]

Who: Mordin Solus
Broadcast: Fleet-wide!
Action: Marsiva!
When: Right meow

[Hello, Flooters. There's someone very decidedly alien blinking into the feed, mumbling to himself.]

Curious, recording? Ah, hello. Mordin Solus. New arrival.

[Those words were deliberate, these next ones are a bit more rapid-fire. He seems a little...distracted, kind of manic.]

Curious about implants. Is there a clinic? Doctor, professor, comfortable behind lab bench. Would also like samples from other captives. Where are you from? What races are present? So much data, too many variables to account for via video transmission. Need to study, research. Too many variables, need hard data.

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[xenoscientist]

Hmm. No lingering aftereffects, no memory of procedure to implant. Likely used a memory-altering anesthetic. Salarian metabolism problematic for hypothesis. Do other races experience recovery time from implant?

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[save_the_souls]

Not...that I know about. But no one really knows what happens before people wake up on the Marsiva.

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[xenoscientist]

So entirely possible.

[It was a bit chilling but...better than not knowing.]

Frightening, perhaps, no worse than ignorance. Living without hypothesis.

Backtrack, clinic- what resources are lacking?

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[save_the_souls]

[...]

Money, staff, medicine beyond basic medication, the ability to do surgery...

Most things, really.

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[xenoscientist]

Resources pose problem. Needs a solution. Have run clinic on limited means before. Enjoyed challenge. Start small, build up.

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[save_the_souls]

Wait-

You actually have experience doing that?

[If Allen sounds a little awed, it's because he's so is. The doctors Allen's met through the years have mostly been incredible, no doubt about that. But...more often than not, they were used to having rather cushy resources than this fleet could provide. SO THIS IS. HUH. HOW ABOUT THAT.]

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[xenoscientist]

Oh yes, on asteroid Omega. Chosen specifically for challenge, wanted to help, as well.

[The precise line of thinking was that it was more of a way to atone, to make up for everything he had done on Tuchanka. The genophage...he told himself it was the right idea. It was the best thing at the time.

But he still awoke every morning and let the guilt settle on him that he was the man who deployed a massive biological weapon on a species.

Omega was to be his last act in his life, a way to bring some good into the universe. He wasn't certain if he believed in karma, exactly, but he did like the idea that perhaps he could balance out his bad with some good.]

Free clinic, limited resources, dealt with gangs and crime, as well. Tough situation, very rewarding.