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Who: Beverly Crusher and Wrath
Broadcast: yes, video
Action: Find Beverly and Wrath on the Blue Fish right now (Wrath on the Windrose later)
When: Current

Good afternoon, Fleet, I’m Dr. Crusher, of the Blue Fish, [She gestures a hand towards Wrath] this is Wrath, of the Windrose, and we have an important request of our fellow fleet members. Wrath needs to undergo complicated back surgery, involving the removal of cybernetic implants. I have the skills and done the research necessary in order to do this, but I do not have the facilities or all of the equipment that I need. If anyone with medical, engineering, or computer knowledge would be willing to help us construct a surgical suite, I would, of course, compensate you for your time and energy. Please send us any questions you may have and thank you!

[Wrath waves and grins. She's leaning on her familiar cane.] Hi everyone! Um! Like Dr. Crusher said, I really appreciate any help, it'd be great to be back up to full effectiveness and kicking ass! This is so great, I never thought this injury could get fixed so I'm really... just hopeful. So thank you everybody.

And uh. It'd probably also be good to have someone who can talk to the nanobots that regulate my bone growth and muscle fibers. Cuz my old doctor put a governor on the muscles so I wouldn't hurt myself, but once my back is fixed I should get retuned to full speed.

I'll definitely compensate anyone for help too!

[Responses can come from both Wrath and Dr. Crusher!]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I can do that. Sounds like plenty of people are looking to pitch in.

I know, everyone's so nice! I'm lucky to be in such a great fleet.

People do seem to get along here, don't they? Has there been trouble with that before? [Always the curious one looking for problems.]

Mostly. Like sometimes you get someone who is a troublemaker, but then you just have to gently explain to them that it's wrong.

Gently explain, huh? By putting their head into a wall?

That's more like... um. Strongly explain. Sometimes you just have to be emphatic and firm but people learn eventually. Like you normally only have to have the chain of command talk with someone once.

These must be some talks you give.

After you run a platoon for a couple decades, you get really good at giving talks.

You've never come across someone who was resistant to explanation? [She feels like there is a hidden something she's missing here.]

Well yeah. Just gotta explain it again and again until they get it or scrub out. Strongly.

Well, glad it's worked out for you at least. [Kitty wishes she could have talked her way out of more fights, but things had been peaceful in the fleet at least.] And I hope all this works out too. I know people from Beverly's world can do impressive things.

What she's told me sounds... really fantastic. And I thought our medical was really advanced. Or maybe it's just different. [Or maybe Whiskey had done it on purpose. That's a thought that really bothers her, and she hates herself for thinking it.]

Our capacity for genetics was pretty incredible too, but mostly just in bad ways.

Like how?

Where I'm from, there's pretty strict laws about genetic engineering and stuff. And everyone who comes from a uterine replicator gets gene cleaned and stuff first.

Like there were no laws and people were being experimented on against their wills. There was a place called the breeding pens people with genetic potential would get abducted and taken there for...processing. They almost got me.

Oh, that's really fucked up and wrong.

Though...

There are laws against people being experimented on in Proles. But that doesn't stop the corps.

Edited 2016-04-25 08:07 (UTC)

That doesn't sound good either.

It's not good. It's... a bad situation.

I'm glad to be here now.

Not wanting to go back home?

I miss my friends. And I miss my partner. But I don't miss... I don't miss being scared all the time that the next time someone knocked on my door, it would be Compliance. I don't miss forgetting things. I'd rather my friends came here instead.

I understand that. Should I ask what Compliance was or is that one of those things left best undiscussed?

[She shrugs.] Compliance comes and gets you when you've engaged in non-compliant, antisocial behavior.

And sometimes for other reasons. You go away, and when you come back, you're not the same. It's supposed to fix people. I don't think it does.

That's... no. That's not what you want from the people you work for. That's worse than anything the wardens did in the prison. [They took memories sometimes, but they never rewrote someone like that. Not permanently.]

Yeah, that's what Bifrons did, and I was a corporate merc after they disbanded the army. Because... I don't know. They basically ran the city.

Well, here's hoping your friends and partner come here then. [She doesn't think "here" is a very solid, stable place either, but she gets it being a step up at least.]

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